The Civil War

Select the differences between the North and the South that helped lead to the Civil War.

• Different political views over slavery

  (Republicans in the North, Democrats in the South)

• Economic differences with the North being industrialized and the South remaining rural.

• The Northern population was much larger

• The North had better trained generals

What caused the first state in the South to secede?

• The North invaded the South at Fort Sumter

• The Dred Scott Supreme Court decision

• The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860

• The raid on Harpers Ferry

What political party did Abraham Lincoln belong to?

• Democrat

• Anti-Federalist

• Whig

• Republican

The southern states who secede form what?

• The Confederacy

• Socialist States

• A dictatorship

• A Constitutional Monarchy

Which is considered the first battle of the Civil War?

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Battle of Manasass (Bull Run)

• Battle of Fort Sumter

• Battle of Antietam

Who is asked to be the commander of the Union army but declines and becomes the commanding General of the Confederate Army?

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Stonewall Jackson

• Frederick Douglass

States that have slaveholders but remain with the union are ?

• Disloyal States

• Border States

• Copperhead States

• Occupied States

What is considered the single-day bloodiest battle of the Civil War?

• Manassass (Bull Run)

• Hampton Roads

• Gettysburg

• Antietam

What are the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (Merrimack)?

• Canons

• Names of battle plans

• Ironclad ships

• Prisons

This was issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863 and it declared slaves held in rebellious states were free?

• Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Proclamation of Liberty

• Executive Order of Freedom