Civil war

Who was elected president in 1860, in turn causing some southern states to seced?

• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln

Who was Harriet Tubman?

• A former slave owner who continued to fight for slavery.
• An escaped slave who helped other slaves to freedom.

Who won the war?

• Confederacy
• Union
• England
• France

The Union wanted to control the Mississippi River so that

• it could control the movement of trade and goods
  
• it was a natural division to “split the South”
• it was an easier invasion route to the South than by land
• all of the above

Even though these were states where slavery was legal, they did not secede and join the Confederate states.

• Western States
• State of Confusion
• Border States
• Southern States

More factories, population, and a better navy were

• Confederate advantages
• Union advantages
• reasons for a Confederate victory
• causes of the Battle of Gettysburg

Better officers, defending their own homes, and not having to go on the attack were

• Union advantages
• reasons the Union won the battle of Antietam
• Confederate advantages
• reasons that the Confederacy won at Ft. Pillow

The Civil War began when Confederate forces launched an attack at which location?

• Fort Sumter
• Fort Williams
• Fort Pillow
• Fort Apache

What was Lincoln's main goal throughout the Civil War?

• to abolish slavery
• to end British control of the Western territories
• to make a profit selling war supplies
• to preserve the Union

This freed the slaves in Confederate states.

• The Compromise of 1850
• The Gettysburg Address 
• The Battle of Antietam 
• The Emancipation Proclamation