Social Studies Chapter 6 Lesson 2

___________ lead the country during the Civil War as sixteenth President of the United States.

• Lincoln Nebraska

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

The government formed by the 11 southern states that seceded from the United States from 1860-1865.

• Civil War

• Conservation

• Confederacy

• Corinth

The southern states chose ________ from Mississippi as its president when they seceded from the United States

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

• Jefferson Davis

To withdraw means to _______.

• secede

• Union

• Confederacy

• success

________ describes the group of states that make up the United States.

• Confederacy

• Union

• secede

• siege

On April 15, 1861, Confederate soldiers fired on ________, a Union fort in South Carolina. This started the bloodiest war in United States history.

• Vicksburg

• Corinth

• Fort Sumter

• Appomattox

The ______ is called the "War Between the States."

• World War 2

• World War 1

• Civil War

• National War

Both the north and the south wanted to control the town of Corinth in northeastern Mississippi because this town was an important __________.

• river junction

• railroad junction

• highway junction

• trail

By the summer of 1862, the ______ Army controlled all of the Mississippi River except for four miles near Vicksburg.

• United States

• Confederate

• Union

• Mississippi

_______ was the general in charge of the Union army trying to capture Vicksburg.

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln