Causes of the Civil War

What was the United States called prior to the Civil War?

• Union

• Underground Railrod

• abolitionist

• secede

What was it called when seven southern states chose to leave the United States?

• abolitionist

• Civil War

• secede

• Union

What was the conflict between the North and South in the mid-1800's called?

• Underground Railroad

• Civil War

• Union

• abolitionist

What method did people use to help the slaves escape?

• abolitionist

• Civil War

• secede

• Underground Railroad

What is a person called who wants to end slavery?

• Underground Railroad

• abolitionist

• union

• secede

What did the South have more of than the North?

• cities

• factories

• plantations

• railroads

Workers in the North were referred to as "free labor", why?

• They worked for no money.

• They came from other countries.

• They usually did not have families.

• They could choose their own jobs.

Most important crop in the South by the mid-1800's was ________________.

• corn

• cotton

• rice

• tabacco

One important goal of the Missouri Compromise was __________________.

• returning fugitive slaves

• preventing slavery in the cities

• keeping an equal number of slave states and free states

• letting each territory decide whether to allow slavery

Frederick Douglas is a person who spoke out and was against slavery. What is is another name for people against slavery?

• abolitionists

• slave owners

• enslaved African Americans

• conductors on the Underground Railroad