Civil War Facts

He proposed a blockade and an attack on the South called the Anaconda plan.

• General Sherman

• General Scott

• General Grant

• General Jackson

What was the first state of the south to secede from the Union?

• North Carolina

• Mississippi

• Florida

• South Carolina

The first battle of the Civil War.

• Fort Sumter

• Bleeding Kansas

The South that fought the North in the Civil war

• were known as The Confederate States of America

• were known as the Union States of America

Abraham Lincoln

• Was the Republican

  candidate in the 1860 election

• Was the Democratic

  candidate in the 1860 election

true or false

an abolitionist

wanted slavery

• False

• True

After the 1860 election many southern states wanted to _________

• secede from the Union

• stay in the Union

The principle that the federal government has only limited authority over each state is called

• government rights

• state's rights

• people's rights

• abolitionist

What case did the Supreme Court

rule against a slave, who sued his owner, to receive his freedom?

• Harriet Tubman

• Dred Scott

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

True or False

The Southern States based their economy on slavery

• True

• False