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WorksheetsSecession!
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
What does secession even mean?
to join
to leave
to ask for
Which was the first state to SECEDE?
Maine
Massachusetts
South Carolina
New York
Which POLITICAL event happened just before states began to secede?
Abraham Lincoln was elected POTUS
The French tried to take back the city of New Orleans
The Battle of Fort Sumter
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Between 1860-1861 how many states SECEDED from the Union?
19
6
11
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
What was the view of Lincoln and the Republican Party on the topic of slavery?
It should be abolished immediately.
Slavery should be allowed to remain in states where it already existed.
Slavery should NOT be allowed to expand into the western territories.
Who was elected President of the Confederate States of America?
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Jefferson Davis
The Confederate States of America chose a capital city. Which city was that?
Richmond, Virginia
Washington, DC
Lexington, KY
What made the BORDER states unique or different?
They allowed slavery, BUT stayed with the Union.
They seceded and became their own nation.
They seceded and but did NOT alllow slavery.
The first shots fired were on this federal fort. What was the name of the fort and where was it?
Fort Andrews in Hull, Massachusetts
Fort Mifflin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina
On paper, which side in the Civil War had the greatest advantages at the start of the American Civil War?
The United States
The Confederate States
What were different names for the North during the Civil War?
The United States
The Blue
The Yankees
The Slave States
What were nicknames for the south during the Civil War?
The CSA
The Gray
Rebels
The Slave States
When was the American Civil War?
1941-1945
1861-1865
1914-1918
