Social Studies Review

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

• Foreign Invasion

• Immigration

• Taxes

• Slavery

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote and anti-slavery book called________________ that inspired many people to join the movement to end slavery.

• The Life of a Slave

• The Liberator

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Quilt Maker

The two major areas where the Northern and Southern states differed were

• economy and culture

• food production and culture

• language and food production

• language and education

Compromise said that each new State would decide the issue of slavery for themselves (Popular Sovereignty)

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850