Chapter 8: Civil War Review

What was another name for the Southern states that seceded?

• Union

• Confederacy

• Redcoats

• Carpetbaggers

What was another name for the Northern states during the Civil War?

• Rebels

• Confederacy

• Union

• Abolitionists

What is an abolitionist?

• Someone who is in favor of slavery

• Someone who works for a plantation owner

• Someone who joined the Confederate Army

• Someone who wants to end slavery

Which of the following describe the North before the Civil War starts?

• has more people

• mostly plantations

• more factories

• more slaves

Who had more railroads?

• North

• South

Who was elected president that causes the South to officially secede?

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

Who became the president of the Confederate States of America?

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

What did the ruling of the Dred Scott case determine about slaves?

• They should be freed.

• They are property.

• They are not citizens.

• They have the same rights as everyone else.

Why did the South feel justified in owning slaves?

• They felt they needed them to work the huge plantations.

• They felt they needed the slaves as cheap labor.

• They felt that slaves were necessary to make their crops profitable.

• They felt like they needed slaves to work in the factories.

Minnesota was part of the ____________________.

• Union

• Confederacy