Causes of the Civil War

What state was the first to secede (break away) from the United States on December 20, 1860?

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• Virginia

• Mississippi

Invented by Eli Whitney, helped contribute to the growth of slavery and the "Cotton Kingdom" in the Deep South

• Railroads
• Canals
• Cotton Gin

This was one of the main causes that led to the Civil War. The North did not want this and the South did. The South depended on this for their economy and to make a profit.

• State's Rights

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Slavery

• John Brown's Raid

The cotton gin processes cotton more quickly, so why did the invention of the cotton gin increase the need for slaves even though it reduced the need for labor for seed removal?

• It was an extremely complicated machine.  Therefore, more slaves were needed to operate and repair it.
•  Now that more cotton could be processed quickly, more cotton needed to be grown and picked.
• Only the large plantations used the gin.  Smaller plantations still processed cotton by hand.
• The cotton gin only gathered the fiber and crushed the cotton seeds.  Slaves still physically picked through the fibers and pulled out the seeds.

Was a former slave who wrote the North Star newspaper and wrote an autobiography of his life.

• Fredrick Douglas
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Booker T Washington

This man used his newspaper, the Liberator, to say that slavery was wrong.  He formed the Anti-Slavery Society.

• Dred Scott
• William Lloyd Garrison 
• John Brown
• Frederick Douglass 

Nat Turner was:

• A slave who led a rebellion
• A slave owner who led a rebellion
• A slave who married his owner
• A slave who died of a cold

Nat Turner's rebels

• took their owners prisoner and treated them well
• ran away in the dead of night
• killed almost every white person they saw
• fed their owners a special feast

Identify the Abolitionists who wrote The Appeal 

• David Walker
• Nat Turner
• Maria Stewart
• William Lloyd Garrison

Name of William Lloyd Garrison's paper? 

• The Liberation
• The Liberator 
• The Appeal 
• The Garrison