Causes Of The Civil War

Question 1

Cotton Gin

Answer 1

Machine to remove cotton seeds from cotton fiber

Question 2

Lincoln in history

Answer 2

Single most important person of the civil war

Question 3

Fort summer April 12

Answer 3

Opening of the civil war
South Carolina
A federal fort in the harbor of charleston was attacked
Lincoln has refused to evacuate the fort when the South Carolina government demanded it
He wanted to wait for the south to make the first agressive move

Question 4

How many conference soldiers owned slaves

Answer 4

2%or 5% or7%
Argument because so few conferred ate soldiers owned soldiers
45% of southern soldiers earned their living in a farm or business that used slave labor.

Question 5

Jefferson Davis

Answer 5

President of the confederacy
Very successful cotton planter from Mississippi
But not the half of the political skills that Lincoln had but could be a leader

Question 6

The emancipation proclamation

Answer 6

Executive decision made by Lincoln
Declared that all slaves held in confederate territory were released from bondage
Did not apply for slaves in the border states
Changed the purpose of the war and reinvigorate northern commitment to continue to struggle

Question 7

Gettysburg Adresse

Answer 7

Greatest speech in American history

Question 8

Cotton

Answer 8

In 1840 more than half of the value of U.S exports
1840: 51.6
1860: 57,5
Money from cotton was the basic of the economy of the southern states
The southern entirely dependent from slave-produced product