Southern Secession

After the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, the Southern states debated the question of _________, or withdrawing from the Union.

• three

• Republican

• slavery

• secession

• populous

Which was the first state to vote to secede from the Union?

• Georgia

• Maryland

• Missouri

• South Carolina

Which of these concepts did secessionists use to support their views?

• constitutionalism

• federalism

• popular sovereignty

• states's rights

Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Stephen Douglas

In Lincoln's first Inaugural Address, he_____.

• declared the Southern states to be enemies.

• recognized the South as a separate country.

• vowed to hold federal property in the South.

• repealed slavery in the Southern States.

The issue of ___________ created a break in the Democratic Party during the 1860 presidental election.

• three

• Republican

• slavery

• secession

• populous

White Southerners feared that the 1860 victories by Lincoln's ________ Party would result in slave revolts.

• three

• Republican

• slavery

• secession

• populous

for a state to leave the United States and become their own country

• Confederacy

• Secede / Secession

• Casualties

• Draft / Conscription

The “country” the South forms after seceding from the United States.

• Union

• Confederacy

• Confederate States of America

• Fort Sumter

The South or the CSA in the Civil War. Usually wearing grey uniforms if they had a uniform at all

• Union

• Draft / Conscription

• Casualties

• Confederacy