Leading to the Civil War and Lincoln - Page 6
Questions
- What event started the Civil War?
- What was the campaign against slavery and the slave trade called?
- How did many escaped slaves flee to freedom in the North?
- Why are there no photos of Lincoln giving the Gettysburg Address?
- How did most Southerners see slavery?
- Who formed the Free-Soil Party and why?
- What events were sparked by the election of Abraham Lincoln?
- Which president issued an executive order in 1948 that required the integration of the U.S. armed forces?
- What was the name of the decree that required a majority of the white males in a state to swear loyalty to the Union?
- What did Roger B. Taney do that increased regional tensions in the United States during the 1850s?
- What did the Confederacy win at Chancellorsville? What did it lose?
- What was the name of the Union army's march of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah?
- In what ways was Atlanta important to the Confederacy?
- Why did California's application for statehood cause a sectional crisis?
- In the Battle of Gettysburg, how did Lee hope to protect Pickett's charge?
- What boundary separated free states from slave states?
- Why is Buchanan considered one of the United States's worst presidents?
- What made Lee's situation at Petersburg so grim?
- Who became the leader of the Confederate Army, and what skills did he bring to the job?
- What can be said of the Union army during the brutal Wilderness Campaign?