Civil War 1
Civil War 2
Civil War 3
Civil War 4
Civil War 5
Civil War 6
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Who is President of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
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Why did the South support Slavery?
Because the cheap labor helped their economy
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What was the first great battle of the Civil war? Picnic...run!
the Battle of Bull Run
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What marked the beginning of the civil war? ...First shots here
the attack on Fort Sumter
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True or False
President Lincoln let the Confederates officially secede from the Union?
False
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Which state was the 3rd to leave the Union?
Florida
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What is the word the means a ship that ran through the blockade?
Blockade runner
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Which side of the Civil War were called the Confederacy?
The Southern states that seceded from the United States
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What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Declared that slaves in the confederate states were free
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What does abolition mean?
The ending of slavery
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What was one major reason the Southern States seceded?
The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860...thought it was a threat to slavery and their economy.
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What is a Tariff?
A tax paid on goods that come from another country
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What side of the civil war called themselves the Union?
The Northern states that were still apart of the United States
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Why was the Battle of Antietam one of the deadliest wars?
About 10,000 people died from each side in a day
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Which state left the Union first?
South Carolina
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Years of the Civil War
What is 1861-1865
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What happened to the President of the North at the end of the civil war?
He was assasinated
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Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Union general (who later became president)
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Who gave the Gettysburg address?
President Abraham Lincoln
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What does secede mean?
to break away from, to remove oneselves, to leave
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What was the Union's battle plan to win against Florida? (Think Fl is a peninsula)
Blockade
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Where did Lee surrender to Grant?
Appomattox Courthouse
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What does Civil War mean?
means a fight between groups within the same country
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The fight where the Confederate soldiers did not take over the union fort.
Fort Pickens
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Who is Jefferson Davis?
A Mississippi senator that became the President of the Confederacy
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Which two states supported the Union but still had slaves?
Maryland and Delaware
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How many states in total left the union?
11
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What does blockade mean?
a line of ships that keep good from entering or leaving a place
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What is an abolitionist?
A person who wants to end slavery
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What were some reasons the South wanted to keep slavery?
They want to keep their cheap labor for farming on plantations, and they felt they were treating their slaves better than the workers in the Northern States.