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Question 1

First 4 states to secede from union in order

Answer 1

South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi

Question 2

what is Secession.

Answer 2

Secession means to withdraw.

Question 3

Who wasJefferson Davis?

Answer 3

The first president of the Confederacy, ordered the attack on Fort Sumter

Question 4

Britain and France need for Southern cotton

Answer 4

Britain and France relied heavily on cotton and so when the war started, the Confederacy tried to get them on their side.

Question 5

Battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 5

Jefferson Davis ordered an attack on Fort Sumter, a Union fort on an island in South Carolina. Nobody died, but afterward Lincoln called for more troops and the Civil War began.

Question 6

Lincolns Republican Party

Answer 6

Lincoln promised to stop slavery spread. First Republican Party president.

Question 7

Slavery in the border states

Answer 7

the states were Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland. They were states that were in the Union as a Slave State.

Question 8

States Rights-

Answer 8

Theory that individual states are independant and have the right to control their own affairs. (Ie business, taxes, elections etc.)

Question 9

Rail line in the South

Answer 9

The American Civil War was the first in which large armies depended heavily on railroads to bring supplies. For the Confederate States Army, the system was fragile and was designed for short hauls of cotton to the nearest river or ocean port.

Question 10

Border States (list border states)

Answer 10

Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia

Question 11

Goal of the Confederacy in the war

Answer 11

wanted to become an independent nation with slavery and be defensive

Question 12

Slavery (how it effected the Democrat Party)

Answer 12

Slavery affected the democractic party by spliting it. This gave Abraham Lincoln a chance to gain the presidency.

Question 13

1860 Presidential Election

Answer 13

Democratic party split, and the northern Democrats supported Stephen Douglas because of popular sovereignty. The Southern Democrats supported John C. Breckinridge to uphold slavery. Moderates from north and south made the Constitutional Union Party and chose John Bell, had no postion on slavery. The republicans chose Abraham Lincoln and wanted to stop the spread of slavery. Lincoln won by electoral votes even though he had 44% of the vote. Lincoln did not appear on the ballot in some southern states.

Question 14

Military leaders of the South

Answer 14

George B McClellan, General Thomas Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E Lee, Jefferson Davis

Question 15

Soldiers of the Civil War (what jobs did the do before the war began)

Answer 15

The average soldier was in the mid 20. Most of the soldiers were farmers before they enlisted.