Causes of Civil War

Who favored city life and manufactured most of the nations products?

• North
• South

Who was more agricultural and used plantations to grow products?

• North
• South

What was the main product grown in the South that needed to be harvested by slaves?

• Tobacco
• Cotton
• Tea
• Corn

Who said that it was the federal government's right to stop slavery??

• Thomas Jefferson
• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Andrew Jackson

The states that left the Union called themselves the...

• Non-union States of America
• Southern States of America
• Confederacy
• Imperialist

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Andrew Jackson

Civil War began in 

• 1860
• 1861
• 1862
• 1863

Each state should be able to decide their issues for themselves and the Federal Government should not interfere.

• slavery
• state's rights
• secede
• Gettysburg

President of the U.S. during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in the states that seceded.

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

What was the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South?

• It reduced the need for slaves on plantations.
• It increased the demand for slaves to produce more cotton.
• It helped improve the slaves' work conditions.
• It had no significant effect on slaves or slavery.