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The winner of the 1860 presidential election was:__________
Abraham Lincoln
The Civil War started with which battle:___________
The Battle of Fort Sumpter
Who Assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Slavery was mainly an invention of the U.S. and countries in Europe.
True or false
False
The _________________________ was the line that separated the Southern States from the Northern States.
Mason-Dixon Line
Lincoln was a member of the ________________ Party, which formed out of its opposition to slavery.
Republican
An important lesson learned from the First Battle of Bull Run was:__________
The Civil war was going to be a long conflict
Who becomes president after Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
The Compromise of 1820, or the Missouri Compromise, allowed Missouri to be admitted as a free state while creating a new slave state called Maine.
True or False
False
As the general of the Union Army, Ulysses S. Grant put into place a policy of ________________, where civilians were seen as enemy combatants in addition to soldiers.
Total War
The commanding general who will oversee the Union Army’s victory in the Civil War was:_________
Ulysses S. Grant
The Battle of ____________ marked the bloodiest day in American history
Antietam
What amendment ended slavery in the U.S.?
The 13th
The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the Confederate States.
True
Loyalty to one section of the country is known as ________________ while loyalty to the whole country is nationalism.
Sectionalism
The president of the Confederate States of America was:_________
Jefferson Davis
After the Battle of Antietam, Abraham Lincoln was influenced to write this document:________
The Emancipation Proclamation
When were the Southern States readmitted to the Union?
1870
The Emancipation Proclamation stated that slavery would end on the condition that the U.S. won the Civil War.
True or False
True
The act of breaking away from the Union is known as _______________.
Secession
The commanding general of Confederate troops during the Civil War was:__________
Robert E. Lee
Where did Robert. E Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant?
Appomattox
What employment method of black southerners was seen as a return to slavery:________
Sharecropping
In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln mentions the birth of a “new freedom” for Americans. This “new freedom” refers to the freedom of enslaved people.
True or False
True
The ___________________________ stated that the number of free states in the Union had to equal the number of slave states.
Missouri Compromise