US History: Civil War

Why did the Civil War begin?

• The South did not want to grow cotton anymore for the North

• Southern states wanted to secede from the United States and make their own country

• Abraham Lincoln won the election and told the South they were not allowed to be part of the country anymore

• Southern senators wanted to have a reelection and the North would not let them, so they wanted to create a new country with Mexico and Canada

Who was Jefferson Davis?

• A general for the Union

• A Southern senator turned "president" of the Confederacy

• Lincoln's secretary of war

• A soldier who was a hero at the attack on Fort Sumter

Who founded the American Red Cross and was nicknamed the "Angel of the Battlefield?"

• Dorothea Dix

• Rose Greenhow

• Harriet Tubman

• Clara Barton

The primary reason the Civil War as fought was over the issue of

• tariffs

• slavery

• states rights

• trade with Europe

What is a civil war?

• A conflict between two groups of citizens in one country

• A conflict between two different countries

• A conflict between two different continents

• A conflict between two different hemispheres

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

• they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

• they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

• he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

• he had a plan to raise taxes

The name given to army from the North.

• Confederates

• Americans

• Military

• Union

The name given to the southern army.

• Confederates
• Union
• Americans
• Military

This was the main economy of the Confederacy

• Agriculture
• Industy
• Shipping
• Trade

This was the main economy of the Union

• Agriculture

• Industry

• Shipping

• Trade