Civil War Causes/ Course

People who worked to end slavery were called:

• abolitionists

• southerners

• cartridges

• blockades

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

• they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

• they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

• he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

• he had a plan to raise taxes

The firing on Fort Sumter took place because:

• The Union wanted to get control of the fort.

• The Confederacy wanted to destroy the fort.

• The Confederacy was upset that the U.S. still had control of a fort in the South.

• The Confederacy wanted to punish the soldiers there.

Before the Civil War, The South was:

• Pro-Slavery
• Anti-Slavery
• The Union
• More populated than North

In the Fugitive Slave Act, it was ILLEGAL for a northerner to let a runaway slave go free

• True 
• False

This was a Novel that showed how evil slavery was.  It helped the anti-slavery movement grow stronger

• Of Mice and Men
• Fugitives
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Life of a Slave

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by:

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Dred Scott
• John Brown

This slave was taken to the North, but told he could still not be free (even in a free state)

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Frederick Douglas
• Dred Scott

Why was the raid on Harper's Ferry important?

• It was a novel about slavery
• It was an example of an uprising against slavery
• It helped repeal the Fugitive Slave Act
• Harper's Ferry was a slave

Who won the Election of 1860?

• Ulysses S Grant
• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Uncle Tom