Module 1 Test Review

A person fighting against slavery was known as _________.

• a plantation owner
• a protester
• an abolitionist

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Who was elected president in 1860, in turn causing some southern states to seced?

• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln

Why did West Virginia become a state?

• To help Virginia lower its population
• Disagreements between eastern counties that needed slavery and western ones who wanted it abolished
• Development in the industrial economy and the western territories wanting to expand
• Arguments between northern and southern VA counties over slavery

Who won the war?

• Confederacy
• Union
• England
• France

Showing loyalty to a state or section rather than the whole country is known as

• states' rights
• secede
• sharecropper
• sectionalism

Where would you MOST LIKELY find an abolitionist?

• North

• South

• Border states

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Which statement BEST explains President Abraham Lincoln's original reason for fighting the Civil War?

• President Lincoln wanted to end all slavery everywhere in the US

• President Lincoln wanted to preserve the Union

• President Lincoln wanted to punish the South for their rebellion

What was the MOST SIGNIFICANT outcome of the 1860 Presidential election?

• Abraham Lincoln was elected
• Abraham Lincoln lost the election
• Slavery was immediately abolished (ended)
• The Southern states started to secede( withdraw/leave)

To withdraw from something, such as a nation

• states' rights
• secede
• abolitionist
• amendment

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After Abraham Lincoln won the election, which states seceded (left)?

• Indian Territories

• Western Territories

• Southern States

• Northern States

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