Civil War

Which item would best complete the list?

• Inexperienced military leaders
• Lack of Industries
• Larger Population
• Lack of agricultural land

The speech above shows that Lincoln believed that the South should--

• be allowed to continue the practice of slavery
• pay for the damages suffered by the Union
• receive fair treatment after the war
• be punished for seceding from the Union

At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln maintained that the war was being fought to 

• uphold national honor
• prevent foreign involvement
• free all slave 
• preserve the Union

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declared --

• United State's freedom from Great Britain
• an end to the Civil War
• freedom for slaves in rebellious southern states
• the beginning of Reconstruction

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." -- Abraham Lincoln 1858
According to this quotation, Abraham Lincoln believed that

• slavery was immoral and should be abolished immediately
• sectional differences threatened to destroy the Union
• the Souther states should be allowed to secede
• to save the nation, the North should compromise with the South on slavery

 The constitutional issue that was impacted by the Civil War was the

• expansion of the president's war powers
• extension of the right to vote to all adults
• supremacy of federal authority over the states
• civil liberties of citizens during wartime

What advantage did the South have the North during the Civil War?

• greater manufacturing
• more effective navy
• better government
• more capable military leaders

What advantage did the South have the North during the Civil War?

• greater manufacturing
• more effective navy
• better government
• more capable military leaders

In declaring its intention to secede from the Union in 1860, South Carolina was affirming its position on

• civil rights
• states' rights
• individual rights
• unalienable rights

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelty of slavery.

• Gone with the Wind
• Across the Lines
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Gettysburg