Florida and the Civil War

What did the group of Southern states that seceded from the rest of the U.S. call itself?

• The Union

• The Southern States

• The New Republic

• The Confederacy

What was the main issue that caused the Southern states to Secede?

• They did not want the federal government to tax their plantations

• Plantation owners did not like Lincoln and felt he was going to change their laws

• Southern Plantation owner did not want the government to limit the spread of slavery or threaten the southern economy

• The Sourthern States felt they were left out of the law making

What does Secede mean?

• To join the South

• To break away

• Slavery

• Confederacy

A large farm in the south worked by enslaved people

• Grove

• Southern States

• Plantation

• orchard

Florida's role in the Civil War was.......

• The sent steel and other metals to the confederate army

• They primarily helped the union fight

• Used their position on the Ocean to help the Confederacy

• Florida did not help in the war as they were a small state

The largest Civil War battle in Florida was

• The battle of St Augustine

• The battle of Fort Hood

• The Battle of Olustee

• The battle of fort Sumter

Florida Supplied ----------- to the ------- Army

• Beef, Pork, crops and salt to the Confederate

• Steel and Metals to the Confederate

• Salt, Crops, Beef and Pork to the Union

• Slaves to the Union

How many men were killed, wounded or went missing in the battle of Olustee

• 300

• 5,000

• 3,000

• 500

When did the Civil war end

• April 1865

• June 1865

• May 1865

• April 12, 1861

Slavery was abolished in Florida in

• April 1861

• April 1865

• May 1861

• May 1865