Answer Key for Teachers Fasttrack to America's Past
Section 5:  Civil War and Reconstruction
Page 5 - 5 and 5 - 6   The Civil War
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The Pictures:
 
1.  Abraham Lincoln, elected president in 1860.  His election convinced South Carolina to leave the Union.

2.  Jefferson Davis, elected president of the Confederate States of America in 1861.  He had been a U.S. Senator from Mississippi before the CSA was formed.

3.  Southern soldiers marching.  The CSA armies often faced more severe shortages than the Northern troops.

4.  A draft to get more Union soldiers.  The blindfolded man is picking slips of paper from a revolving drum. 
Answers for the blanks:
(See the word bank at the bottom of 5 - 6.)
 
1.  ...with slave labor...
2.  ...the northern half...
3.  ...could leave at...
4.  ...like Virginia, just...
5.  ...stayed in the...
6.   ...of war materials needed...
7.   ...and deadly the...
8.   ...at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania...
9.   ...out against the...
10.  ...to divide the...
11.  ...Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia.
12.  ...John Wilkes Booth shot...


Names and Terms List:

   Teachers and students can access a full glossary through the "Names and Terms" link on the Home Page of the Internet support site at www.fasttrackteaching.com
 
 
 

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