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.

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

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

Who had greater industrial capacity at the beginning of the Civil War?

• The North
• The South 
• The Confederacy
• Mexico

Who had greater manpower in the Civil War?

• The North
• The South
• The West
• American Indians

The Confederacy (South) wanted to...

• Invade the North and defeat them
• Fight a defensive war
• Drop nuclear bombs on the Union
• Supply Britain with plenty of cotton until they supported them.