Directions: Using a scratch piece of paper, make two cards. Label one card fact and the other fib. When I put the statement on the screen decide whether it is a fact or fib. When I say go, lay down your card. Whoever plays the write card, gets a point!

Fact or Fib: Statement 1 At the time of the Civil War, the North was more industrialized than the South. FACT

Fact or Fib: Statement 2 At the time of the Civil War, the South grew cash crops while the farms of the north grew food. FACT

Fact or Fib: Statement 3 Both the North and South had laws concerning slaves called Slave Codes. FIB These laws were only in the South. They restricted the education and other freedoms of slaves.

Fact or Fib: Statement 4 Even with slavery, the population of the South was smaller than that of the North. FACT

Fact or Fib: Statement 5 Before the Civil War, new states being added to the Union caused little to no problems. FIB Lots of problems/tension occurred because both the north and south wanted the balance between free and slave states maintained.

Fact or Fib: Statement 6 The Compromise of 1850 was created by Lincoln to prevent the south from seceding. FIB The Compromise of 1850 was a 5 part plan created by Henry Clay. This plan was created to settle conflict between the North and South.

Fact or Fib: Statement 7 The Fugitive Slave Act (1850) required all citizens to help catch and return runaway slaves. FACT

Fact or Fib: Statement 8 Bleeding Kansas was a revolt led by the abolitionists after the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act. FIB Abolitionists were upset over the new fugitive slave law, but Bleeding Kansas occurred after the Kansas- Nebraska Act allowed each territory to vote on the slavery issue.

Fact or Fib: Statement 9 FACT South Carolina seceded after Lincoln was elected president in 1860.

Fact or Fib: Statement 10 FACT The first shots of the Civil War were fired at Ft. Sumter when Jefferson Davis ordered the attack and capture of the fort.

Fact or Fib: Statement 11 Dred Scott won his freedom in the case called Dred Scott v. Sanford. FIB Scott lost his case because the court stated that slaves were property and cannot be taken away. Decision allowed slavery to spread to the west.

Fact or Fib: Statement 11 The bloodiest day for the Civil War was at Fort Sumter where the south lost 23,000 casualties and stopped Confederate invasion of North FIB This describes the battle of Antietam.

Fact or Fib: Statement 12 FACT The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) freed the slaves in the Confederacy, but not the Union.

Fact or Fib: Statement th Amendment allowed slavery to continue in the states that remained loyal to the United States. FIB No it banned slavery in the entire United States forever.

Fact or Fib: Statement 14 Robert E. Lee was to Union as Ulysses Grant was to the Confederacy. FIB Lee was Confederate commander while Grant was the Union commander after 1863.

Fact or Fib: Statement 15 FACT After losing at Vicksburg, the CSA lost control of the Mississippi River and the south was divided in half.

Fact or Fib: Statement 16 The battle of Gettysburg was a huge victory for the CSA. FIB It was a huge loss of life for both sides, but it is considered a turning point in the war because it led to the South's defeat.

Fact or Fib: Statement 17 Grant refused to meet with Lee when the CSA surrendered at Appomattox Court House. FIB Grant and Lee met together to discuss the terms of the surrender. Grant offered the CSA very generous terms that included food for their soldiers.

Fact or Fib: Statement 18 FACT 14 th Amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the United States including freedmen (former slaves).

Fact or Fib: Statement 19 The Emancipation Proclamation forbade any state from denying African American males the right to vote. FIB This describes the 15 th Amendment. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the Confederacy only!

Fact or Fib: Statement 20 The Morrill Act allowed reservation land to be taken away and sold to settlers. FIB This describes the Dawes Act. The Morrill Act allowed for the creation of colleges in Western states like Texas A&M.

Fact or Fib: Statement 21 FACT The Homestead Act allowed for public lands public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.

Fact or Fib: Statement 22 FACT In Lincoln’s 2 nd Inaugural Address, he talked about a healing and rebuilding southern states.