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Chapter 8: The Civil War

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  • The Southern states believed slavery was...
    Essential to their way of life and labor force.
  • Abraham Lincoln said: “A house divided against itself cannot..."
    Stand
  • John Jay Chapman compared American slavery to...
    A sleeping serpent
  • What happened after the 11 Southern states seceded?
    Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter
  • Eliza Winston was awarded her freedom because...
    She moved to Minnesota, a free state.
  • Most Northerners thought slavery should not be allowed in new western states.
    True
  • Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States of America
    True
  • Abraham Lincoln was president of the Union during the Civil War
    True
  • Emancipation Proclamation was...
    The order issued by President Lincoln that freed all slaves in the Confederate states
  • The economies of both the North and South focused equally on factories and farming.
    False
  • The Civil War began at...
    Fort Sumter, South Carolina
  • How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the goals of the war?
    Northerners were fighting to end slavery and free enslaved people in the South.
  • To secede is to...
    Withdraw from an organization or country
  • Which Union general was nicknamed “Young Napoleon”?
    George McClellan
  • The capital of the Confederate States was...
    Richmond, Virginia
  • What happened after Abraham Lincoln is elected president in 1860?
    11 Southern states secede from the Union
  • The industrial invention that changed the economy of the South to rely on slavery was...
    The cotton gin
  • The Confederacy refers to...
    The eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union
  • Which general helped the Confederate army defeat the Union army in the battle at Manassas?
    Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
  • The Northern states believed slavery was...
    Morally wrong and unprofitable
  • The Union refers to...
    The Northern states of America