Chapter 8: The Civil War | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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The Civil War

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To secede is to...

Withdraw from an organization or country

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The Union refers to...

The Northern states of America

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The Confederacy refers to...

The eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union

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Abraham Lincoln was president of the Union during the Civil War

True

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Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States of America

True

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Emancipation Proclamation was...

The order issued by President Lincoln that freed all slaves in the Confederate states

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The economies of both the North and South focused equally on factories and farming.

False

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Most Northerners thought slavery should not be allowed in new western states.

True

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The industrial invention that changed the economy of the South to rely on slavery was...

The cotton gin

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Eliza Winston was awarded her freedom because...

She moved to Minnesota, a free state.

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The Northern states believed slavery was...

Morally wrong and unprofitable

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The Southern states believed slavery was...

Essential to their way of life and labor force.

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John Jay Chapman compared American slavery to...

A sleeping serpent

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Abraham Lincoln said: “A house divided against itself cannot..."

Stand

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The Civil War began at...

Fort Sumter, South Carolina

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The capital of the Confederate States was...

Richmond, Virginia

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