Civil War Quiz

I took care of my mistress's baby when I was young and escaped from slavery on the Underground Railroad when I was older. Who am I?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubman/Minty

• Stephen Douglas

• Robert E. Lee

I am a very large farm where large amounts of crops are grown. What am I called?

• factory

• slavery

• plantation

• Underground Railroad

I am the secret way enslaved Africans escaped to freedom in the North. What am I called?

• plantation

• Underground Railroad

• factory

• subway

My job was to help lead enslaved Africans to freedom on the Underground Railroad. What am I?

• passengers

• stations

• bells

• conductors

I am an imaginary line between the states of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and I separate where slavery was allowed and where it was not. What am I called?

• Mason-Dixon line

• Emancipation Proclamation

• debate

• heritage

I was the group of northern states that thought it was wrong for the South to secede from the United States. What am I?

• Confederacy

• slavery

• Union

• Mason-Dixon Line

I was the group of southern states that seceded from the United States. What am I?

• Underground Railroad

• abolitionist

• Confederacy

• Union

I am one of the main issues that caused the Civil War. What am I?

• factories

• economy

• slavery

• cotton

I was elected president because people in the North believed I would not allow slavery to expand. Who am I?

• Stephen Douglas

• Jefferson Davis

• George Washinton

• Abraham Lincoln

I am a group of stars that helped guide enslaved Africans to freedom. What am I?

• The Little Dipper

• The Milky Way

• Orion

• The Drinking Gourd