Spring Final

In 1860 the Republican candidate for president was ____.

• John Bell

• John Breckinridge

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

Which was the first state to secede?

• Texas

• Alabama

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

Whom did the delegates from the Confederate States of America choose as their president?

• Robert E. Lee

• Francis Pickens

• Abner Doubleday

• Jefferson Davis

Southerners justified secession with the theory of ____.

• civil rights

• states' rights

• equality for all men

• international law

The most important border state was ____.

• Maryland

• Missouri

• Kentucky

• Delaware

The main goal of the South was ____.

• to expand the Confederacy's territory

• to be recognized as an independent nation

• to make slavery legal throughout the United States

• to protect its ability to trade with Britain and France

The main goal of the North was ____.

• to abolish slavery

• to defend its territory against the Confederacy

• to restore the Union

• all of the above

The Union wanted control of the Mississippi because ____.

• it could cut off supply lines to the Confederacy from the West

• it wanted to steal supplies from the Confederacy

• it would be able to move into the heart of the South

• Both A and C

At the battle of Shiloh, ____.

• the Confederacy turned the Union back quickly

• the Union won a narrow victory

• there was no clear winner

• Grant demanded unconditional surrender

Abolitionists urged President Lincoln to make slavery a central issue in the war because ____.

• it was good foreign policy

• slavery was a moral wrong

• the Confederate army enlisted slaves

• it would help him get reelected