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& 131 - The Civil War 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 of supplies than the Northern troops. 4. A draft to get more Union soldiers. The blindfolded man is a government or army official picking slips of paper with names from a revolving drum. Men who were selected by the process had to go into the army, or could pay someone else to go in their place. The vocabulary terms A glossary for the vocabulary terms can be found with the link near the top of this section's main index page. See the Getting Started pages at the front of the workbook for suggestions for students about highlighting, and making vocabulary index cards. |
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Copyright 2018 by David Burns. All rights reserved. Illustrations and reading selections appearing in this work are taken from sources in the public domain and from private collections used by permission. Sources include: the Dover Pictorial Archive, the Library of Congress, The National Archives, The Hart Publishing Co., Corel Corporation and its licensors, Nova Development Corporation and its licensors, and others. Maps were created or adapted by the author using reference maps from the United States Geological Survey and Cartesia Software. Please see the home page for this title for more information. |