Fort Sumter

______________ was the first state to break away from the United States.

• Florida

• Georgia

• South Carolina

• Virginia

What was the main cause of South Carolina's secession in the 1860s?

• the Kansas Nebraska Act

• the Missouri Compromise

• the election of Abraham Lincoln

• the firing on Ft Sumter

What was the name of the new country formed from the states that seceded?

• Southern States of America

• Confederate States of America

• Freedonia

• Seceded States of America

Who was elected President of the Confederate States of America?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• Jefferson Davis

• Ulysses S. Grant

Where was Fort Sumter?

• Fort Sumter was a man-made island, in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

• Fort Sumter was located in the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia.

• Fort Sumter was situated in the San Francisco Bay, California.

• Fort Sumter was situated in the Hudson River, New York.

After secession, US troops refuse to give up Fort Sumter. In April, the Confederates cut off federal supplies to the fort so...

• Lincoln sent merchant vessels guarded by the US Navy towards Fort Sumter.

• Lincoln declared martial law in the South.

• Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Lincoln ordered a blockade of Confederate ports.

Who was the U.S. officer in command at Fort Sumter?

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Robert Anderson

• PGT Beauregard

Lincoln reached out to the South Carolina governor to ask if he would allow the ship to come in but...

• the governor refused

• the governor accepted

• the ship changed course

• the ship was destroyed

On April 12, 1861, the Confederacy sent a warning asking the Union to surrender but...

• they refused

• they accepted

• they ignored

• they retaliated

General P. T. Beauregard was in charge of the Confederate troops in Charleston in charge of firing on Fort Sumter. Major Anderson, US commander of Fort Sumter was his former....

• student at West Point

• neighbor

• brother-in-law

• teacher at West Point