Issues and Events leading to Civil War

The main goal of abolitionists in America was to ___.

• gain the right to vote for enslaved people.
• gain the right to vote for women.
• gain equal rights for women.
• gain freedom for enslaved people.

What abolitionist leader published the Liberator?

• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Susan B. Anthony

This former slave edited the North Star.

• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Harriet Tubman
• Isabel Sojourner Truth

This escaped slave, sometimes called "Moses", helped many slaves run away on the Underground Railroad.

• Frederick Douglass
• Isabel Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

The main goal of American suffragists was ___.

• to free the slaves.
• to gain the right to vote for women.
• to end child labor in America.
• stop slave owners from punishing their slaves.

Which one of the following is true of women in the early 1800's in America?

• Women often had college educations.
• Many women were business leaders.
• Many women were large landowners.
• Women did not enjoy the same rights as men.

Of the following women, which one was NOT well known as a leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement?

• Susan B. Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Isabel Sojourner Truth

What was the main issue that divided the nation and helped lead to the American Civil War?

• state's rights
• slavery
• tariffs
• westward expansion

Which one of the following would be true of the South prior to the Civil War?

• The economy was based on manufacturing.
• It was mainly an urban society.
• People supported tariffs that would protect factory owners and workers.
• People supported state's rights over a stronger central government.

Which one of the following would be true of the North prior to the Civil War?

• They believed states could declare national laws illegal.
• They believed the abolition of slavery would destroy their economy.
• They believed the United States was one nation that could not be separated or divided.
• They opposed tariffs that would cause the price of manufactured goods to increase.