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SC Civil War
Civil War in SC
Question | Answer |
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What was the name of the meeting where they voted to leave the union? | The Secession Convention |
What did South Carolina decide to do at the Secession Convention? | Secede from the Union |
What are three reasons South Carolina decided to leave the Union? | State's Rights; The issue of slavery; Lincoln was going to elected president |
What does it mean to secede? | Withdraw formally from membership in union or organization; Leave |
What was the name of the newly formed country that South Carolina formed? | The Confederate States of America |
Who was Jefferson Davis? | The President of the Confederacy |
Who refused to accept the split of South Carolina seceding from the Union? | Abraham Lincoln |
What began the Civil War? | Confederate Troops fired on Fort Sumter |
When the Union blockaded the Confederacy, how did it hurt the confederacy? | They were not able to export cotton or import supplies they needed. |
What is important about Robert Smalls during the Civil War? | He helped him and his family escaped slavery and stole the ship, The Planter, and gave the ship to the Union. |
The Confederacy created The Hunley during the end of the Civil War to help stop what during the war? | The Union blockade |
Why was the H.L. Hunley well-known? | It was the first time using a submarine in a battle to sink a warship. |
During Sherman's March he fought using total warfare. What was the purpose of Sherman's March in the south? | To destroy supplies to win the war. |