Chapter 11.1

What does "secede" mean?

• to file a lawsuit

• to break away

• to protest

• to join

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

• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Georgia
• Mississippi

What was the main cause of South Carolina's secession in the 1860s?

• the Kansas Nebraska Act

• the Missouri Compromise

• the election of Abraham Lincoln

• the firing on Ft Sumter

What was the name of the new country formed from the states that seceded?

• Southern States of America

• Confederate States of America

• Freedonia

• Seceded States of America

Who was elected President of the Confederate States of America?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• Jefferson Davis

The first shots fired were on this federal fort. What was the name of the fort and where was it?

• Fort Andrews in Hull, Massachusetts

• Fort Mifflin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina

Fort Sumter is in which state

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• New York

• Virginia

Lincoln decided to_______

• send more troops and arms to Fort Sumter

• hand Fort Sumter over to the CSA

• send only food and medicine to the men in Fort Sumter

• invaded the South to defend Fort Sumter

Fort Sumter defends which city

• Charleston

• New York

• New Orleans

• Boston

Who won the Battle of Fort Sumter

• USA

• CSA