Civil War

Why did the south need slaves?

• A. To do all of their farming (especially cotton).

• B. To run the state government.

• C. To keep the ports open.

• D. To construct farm equipment for plantations.

What did Abolitionists want to do?

• A. Spread slavery to the other states.

• B. End slavery throughout the United States.

• C. Limit slavery just to South Carolina.

• D. None of the above.

What were "States’ Rights"?

• A. States in the north have the right to make their own decisions.

• B. States in the south have the right to make their own decisions.

• C. Each state has the right to make its own decisions.

• D. The federal government has the right to make decisions.

What well known South Carolinian abolitionists worked to end slavery?

• A. John C. Calhoun and Robert Barnwell Rhett.

• B. Jefferson and Robert Davis.

• C. Wade and John Hampton.

• D. Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

Why were southerners upset when Lincoln was elected president?

• A. They wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery.

• B. He had a plan to raise taxes.

• C. He wanted the northern states to secede from the Union.

• D. They believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life.

What happened at the Secession Convention?

• A. The leaders signed the Ordinance of Secession, which said South Carolina had left the Union.

• B. The leaders all got sick with yellow fever.

• C. The leaders decided not to secede.

• D. The leaders got into a fight, and nothing was solved.

Why did Confederate soldiers fire on Fort Sumter?

• A. The Confederates wanted to destroy the fort.

• B. Confederates were upset that the U.S. still had control over a fort in the South.

• C. Union soldiers wanted to get control of the fort.

• D. Confederates wanted to punish the soldiers there.

When the southern states seceded from the Union, they named their new country:

• A. The United States of America

• B. The Southern Union

• C. The Confederate States of America

• D. The Country of the South

What is a blockade?

• A. An agreement.

• B. A group of ships that block other ships from sailing in and out of a harbor.

• C. Someone who acts against his country.

• D. A person sent by a church to try to help people.

Why did President Abraham Lincoln order the blockade of Charleston and the entire South?

• A. He wanted to keep southerners from escaping to the North.

• B. He wanted to keep the South from getting any supplies.

• C. He wanted to keep a closer watch on the South.

• D. He wanted Union sailors to catch seafood along the coast.