“Secession and the Confederacy”
“Lincoln and the Lead-Up to War”
Oversimplified - Part 1
Oversimplified - Part 2
100
This state was the first to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860.
What is South Carolina?
100
Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860 as a member of this political party.
What is the Republican Party?
100
Southern states seceded from the Union based on the threat to this institution.
What is slavery?
100
The Northern population outnumbered the Southern population by 22 million to 5 million. But the South would have had a population of 9 million had they counted this group of people in their population.
Who are enslaved people?
200
In January and February 1861, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, and South Carolina seceded. They formed a new nation and named it this.
What is the Confederate States of America?
200
In his first inaugural address, Lincoln promised not to do this.
What is not interfere with slavery in states where slavery already existed?
200
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln won 180 votes from this system (not the popular vote), still used today to decide U.S. presidents, even though he did not win a single Southern state.
What is the Electoral College?
200
In the First Battle of Bull Run, this side suffered more casualties, surprising many who expected an easy victory.
What is the Union (the Northern forces)?
300
He was elected the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
Lincoln warned that a conflict could only happen if this happened.
What is the South being the aggressors?
300
In 1859, this radical abolitionist led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, hoping to start a slave uprising.
Who is John Brown?
300
This Confederate general earned this nickname for standing firm during the First Battle of Bull Run.
What is "Stonewall?"
400
Confederate vice president Alexander H. Stephens described the new government as based on this principle in his “Cornerstone Speech.”
What is the belief that Black people are not equal to white people and that slavery is their natural condition?
400
These four border states never seceded, despite being slaveholding states.
What are Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri?
400
The first shots of the Civil War were fired by the South at Fort Sumter in this Southern state.
What is South Carolina?
400
Richmond, located in this state, served as the capital of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
What is Virginia?
500
This compromise, proposed by a Kentucky senator, aimed to prevent further secessions by protecting slavery in the Constitution.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
500
Abraham Lincoln beat this Southern Democrat, who received the second most votes in the 1860 election. He was also the incumbent Vice President for James Buchanan.
Who is John C. Breckinridge?
500
This general left the Union army to join the Confederacy out of loyalty to his home state of Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
Fought in July 1861 in Virginia, this first major battle of the Civil War shattered any hope that the war would be short.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?