The Civil War

Who was the president of the Confederate states of America?

• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln

Who was the president of the United States of America (The Union)?

• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln

Who was general of the Army of Northern Virginia?

• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln

Who was general of the Union Army?

• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do for slaves?

• It freed all slaves in southern states at war against the U.S.

• It made slavery legal everywhere.

• It forced runaway slaves to return to the South.

• It gave former slaves voting rights.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln's main goal was to -

• free all slaves

• preserve the Union

• destroy the South

• take over Canada

What does it mean to "emancipate" someone?

• To enslave

• To abolish

• To free

• To vote

Why did Lincoln exclude the Border States from the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Slavery was already illegal in the Border States

• Lincoln didn't have any power the in the Border States

• The Border States worked out a compromise to keep slavery

• He didn't want to give them a reason to side with the South

What was one effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• More African Americans (slave and free) joined the Confederates

• More African Americans (slave and free) joined the Union

• Many southern soldiers joined the North

• Some of the northern states lost faith in Lincoln

The first state to leave the Union after the Election of 1860 was...

• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Georgia
• Mississippi