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QUESTIONS
1. Who was elected President by the Republican party in 1860?
2. Give the leading facts of his life, and state the policy of his party.
3. After his election, what did the cotton states decide to do?
4. What union did they form, and whom did they elect president?
5. Give the leading facts in the life of Jefferson Davis.
6. Why did Virginia earnestly desire peace, and what action did she
take to bring it about?7. For what purpose did the Confederate government send commissioners
to Washington after Lincoln's inauguration?8. What particular request did they make? Was it granted?
9. What notification was sent to Governor Pickens in regard to Fort
Sumter?10. How did the Confederate government accept this notification, and
what happened?11. On what grounds did each section charge the other with beginning
the war?12. Why did Lincoln issue a call for seventy-five thousand troops?
13. Why did Virginia secede?
14. What is said of her heroic action in so doing?
15. Name the states that followed her example.
16. What is said of the return of Virginians?
17. What distinguished generals of the Federal army came to Virginia?
18. Give the leading facts in the life of Albert Sidney Johnston.
19. Of Joseph E. Johnston.
20. What did Robert E. Lee say on resigning his commission in the
Federal army?21. Describe the military ardor throughout Virginia.
22. When and why was the state of West Virginia formed?
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