Civil War Part 1 2024

In his "House Divided" speech during the Lincoln-Douglas debates centered on the US Senate race in Illinois, the "house" represents the country and slavery is what is dividing it.

• True
• False

Who was the famous enslaved person who sued for his freedom but was denied by the Supreme Court?

• Dred Scott
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Jefferson Davis
• Ulysses S Grant

Who was the author of this book?

• Frederick Douglas
• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Robert E. Lee

Lincoln was leader of the Democratic Party.

• True
• False

Lincoln won the US Senate race in Illinois.

• True
• False

After being elected president in 1860, Lincoln and Republicans promised to leave slavery alone where it already existed.

• True
• False

Southern states began to secede after Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860.

• true
• False

South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.

• True
• False

The shots fired at Fort Sumter signaled the start of the Civil War.

• True
• False

Both the Union and Confederacy expected the Civil War to be over quickly.

• True
• False