Civil War Check In

True or False: Lincoln won the popular and electoral vote during his first election.

• False

• True

Why did the Confederate states secede?

• Abraham Lincoln vowed to abolish slavery

• Abraham Lincoln vowed to stop the spread of slavery

• Abraham Lincoln declared war on them

• Abraham Lincoln vowed to stop trading cotton

What was the name of the President of the Confederacy?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

• General Grant

• Jefferson Davis

The Confederacy was ____ prepared for a war than the Union.

Which state was NOT a border state.

• Delaware

• Missouri

• Indiana

• Kentucky

Lincoln declared the slaves in the rebel states free with the __________ Proclamation in 1862.

What was NOT a reason the Confederacy believed they could win?

• They had more trading a resources

• They only had to be defensive

• They strongly believed in the cause

• They believed that foreign countries would aid them

What was Lincoln trying to express with the Gettysburg address?

• That there would be a new nation after the war, based on freedom and peace

• That the South would never become powerful again

• That the troops had shamed their nation by fighting

• That fighting the war was a good thing

Select all the ways using the Total War method affected the South

• It would be hard to rebuild after the damage

• It grew and was prosperous

• People in the South would hold grudges against people in the North

• It allowed England to take over

Lincoln was assassinated 6 days _____ the war ended