Pre-Civil War Quiz

Why did plantation owners in the South believe they needed slavery?

• In order to treat them kindly
• So the owners could feel important
• So the slaves could pick their cotton
• So the slaves could wear the cotton they grew.

Which of the following was a major cause of the American Civil War?

• Foreign Invasion
• Immigration
• Taxes
• Slavery

What are some ways a person in the North might learn about the abolitionist movement to end slavery? 

• Through newspapers and speeches
• Through sports and exercise
• Through thinking and writing
• Through walking and talking

This compromise was made prior to the outbreak of the Civil War in order to ease tensions over the issue of slavery in new territories.

• California Compromise
• New York Compromise
• Missouri Compromise
• Clayton Act Compromise

What was Sojourner Truth most likely seeking to establish in her speeches? 

• Equality for all
• Free private schools
• Access to farm land
• Creation of labor unions

What made Angelina and Sarah Grimke unique among abolitionists?

• They were both from the North
• They had studied slavery at a university
• They were women abolitionists
• They had experienced first-hand the institution of slavery

In 1859, this abolitionist raided Harper's Ferry, Virginia in order to start a slave revolt.

• Robert E. Lee
• John Brown
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass

If we are referring to the Antebellum South, we are talking about a time..

• before the Civil War
• after any war
  
• during World War II
• before the Revolutionary war

An abolitionist is a person who

• is in favor of slavery
• is greatly opposed to slavery
• is in favor of going to war
• is in opposed to going to war

This was the place where John Brown hoped to get weapons

• Johnson's Ferry, Tennessee
• Washington, D.C.
• Harper's Ferry, Virginia
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania