Quiz on Unit 12 Flashcards
The two states that had the most battles in the Civil were:
Virginia and Tennessee
In the 1860 presidential election:
Abraham Lincoln won
After the Confederacy was formed:
four Union states practiced slavery
Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers:
led more states to secede
Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter after Lincoln:
attempted to resupply the fort
The president of the Confederate States of America was:
Jefferson Davis
New Orleans and the southern Mississippi River were captured for the Union by:
David Farragut
A Confederate government was formed in February 1861 in what city?
Montgomery, Alabama
A Constitutional amendment passed by Congress but not considered by the states:
guaranteed slavery where it existed
When the civil war began:
the North was in a better position economically
The outcome of the first Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas Junction) was:
a Confederate victory)
Following the 1860 presidential election:
South Carolina seceded from the Union
In 1860 the Democrates:
divided and nominated Stephen Douglas and John Breckenridge for President
The Confederacy was eventually made up of a total of:
eleven states
Before he ran for president in 1860, Abraham Lincoln:
had served one term in the U.S. House
