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USHC St 4.3 Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Republican Party chose _____as their nominee for president in 1860 | Abraham Lincoln |
| The idea of ____ proved most successful for the Republican Party | Free Soil |
| The Republicans advocated that slavery should not be extended into the new territories (free soil), but not______ | abolition |
| Lincoln’s election in 1860 led southern states to meet in convention and pass articles of _____ stating that their rights as states were being violated by the federal government | secession |
| Many southerners believed that the federal government under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln would not _____ into the new territories | slavery |
| Many southern states formed the and began to occupy federal forts that were located in the south | Confederate States of America |
| December 20, 1860 – South Carolina secedes from the | Union |
| The President of the Confederacy was | Jefferson Davis |
| Chose not to turn against his home state and was given commandership of the Confederate Army | Robert E Lee |
| On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces____. It lasted 33 hours but killed no one. | attacked fort Sumter |
| When the war broke out, the Union had far _____ including industrial capacity, miles of railroad tracks, manpower (larger population), and a navy | greater ecobnomic resources |
| The South relied on the _____ and their trading relationship with Great Britain to provide the manufactured goods and ships they lacked | power of cotton |