Causes & Battles of the Civil War

People who worked to end slavery were called:

• abolitionists

• southerners

• cartridges

• blockades

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 firing on Fort Sumter took place because:

• The Union wanted to get control of the fort.

• The Confederacy wanted to destroy the fort.

• The Confederacy was upset that the U.S. still had control of a fort in the South.

• The Confederacy wanted to punish the soldiers there.

Before the Civil War, what was the stance of The South?

• Pro-Slavery

• Anti-Slavery

• The Union

• More populated than the North

In the Fugitive Slave Act, it was illegal for a northerner to let a runaway slave go free.

• True

• False

People who worked to end slavery were called:

• abolitionists

• southerners

• cartridges

• blockades

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 firing on Fort Sumter took place because:

• The Union wanted to gain control of the fort.

• The Confederacy wanted to destroy the fort.

• The Confederacy was upset that the U.S. still had control of a fort in the South.

• The Confederacy wanted to punish the soldiers there.

Before the Civil War, The South was:

• Pro-Slavery
• Anti-Slavery
• The Union
• More populated than North

In the Fugitive Slave Act, it was ILLEGAL for a northerner to let a runaway slave go free.

• True

• False