Civil War Preassessment

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

• tariffs

• slavery

• states rights

• trade with Europe

To break away from a group

• state's rights
• slavery
• Gettysburg
• secede

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 President of the Union.

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

This was the president of the Confederate States.

• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Robert E. Lee
• Jefferson Davis

Top Confederate general who refused to fight against his home state of Virginia.

• Thomas Stonewall Jackson

• Robert E Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert Anderson

Top Union general who had many victories, including Vicksburg.

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• Robert Smalls

This was the main economy of the Confederacy (the South)

• Agriculture
• Industy
• Shipping
• Trade