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Civil War Test
5th Grade Civil War Study Guide
Question | Answer |
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What were the two main issues that people from the North and South disagreed on? | tariffs & slavery; states rights |
After the invention of the cotton gin, what did people in the South buy more of? | land and slaves |
Before the Civil War, were there more factories in the North or the South? | North |
Before the Civil War, were there more farms in the North or the South? | South |
Why was slavery important to the South? | Production of cotton |
How did tariffs help the North? | Imported goods were more expensive than local goods. |
What types of people were abolitionists? | Free white and black men and women |
Name three abolitionists that were once slaves. | Fredric Douglas, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman |
What did people do to help the abolitionist movement? | Wrote and spoke against slavery. |
Where did the Underground Railroad lead? | North, Canada, Mexico, Florida, Caribbean. |
Who supplied most of the money for 'The Liberator' and the Underground Railroad? | American Anti Slavery Society |
What did the North want to do about the slavery? | Make it illegal and abolish it |
What was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' about? | Cruelty or slavery |
Why did John Brown attack the Army post? | Start a slave rebellion |
What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott case? | Slaves were property with no rights |
What did the Fugitive Slave Law require people to do? | Return runaway slaves to slavery/owners |
Where did Abraham Lincoln grow up? Did he go to school? | He grew up on a farm and did not attend school |
What did Lincoln believe about slavery? | Slavery was wrong |
Why did the South leave the Union? | To protect the rights to own slaves. |
How did the Civil War begin? | Confederate soldiers attacked Fort Sumter. |