Why did the states in the Upper South secede after the fall of Fort Sumter?
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President Lincoln asked each state to send funds to put down the rebellion.
President Davis asked each state to support the Union.
President Lincoln asked each state to send soldiers to put down the rebellion.
President Davis asked each state to leave the Union.
Flag question: Question 2
Question 21 pts
Why did Southerners join the Confederate army commonly?
Group of answer choices
To protect their factories and industry.
To maintain the Union.
To prevent the separation of the Union.
To defend their land and way of life.
Flag question: Question 3
Question 31 pts
Volunteer militias had sparked the revolution that created the United States. Now they would battle for its future. At the start of the war, the Union army had only 16,000 soldiers. Within months that number had swelled to a half million soldiers. Southern men rose up to defend their land and their ways of life. Virginian Thomas Webber came to fight “against the invading foe [enemy] who now pollute the sacred soil of my beloved native state.” When Union soldiers asked one captured rebel why he was fighting, he replied, “I’m fighting because you’re down here.”
Men from the _____________ commonly joined the army because of the invading Union army.
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North
South
West
Northeast
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Here are the answers to your questions:
Why did the states in the Upper South secede after the fall of Fort Sumter?
Why did Southerners join the Confederate army commonly?
Men from the _____________ commonly joined the army because of the invading Union army.
