Slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction

Where did many enslaved people work in the South?

• building ships

• on large plantations

• in the Senate

• in clothing factories

What problem did the Missouri Compromise try to solve?

• whether Missouri would become a state

• whether new states would have slavery or not

• whether Missouri would join the Confederacy

• whether the North would begin having slavery

Allowing territories to vote on whether they would be free or slave states was a disaster. What evidence from the passage supports this conclusion?

• Charles Sumner was physically attacked on the Senate floor.

• “Border ruffians” sneaked into states to influence the vote.

• States below the line of latitude 36°30’ became slave states. .

• There were many fights in Congress over slavery in the territories

How might some northern Senators have felt after Charles Sumner was physically attacked in the Senate?

• pleased and proud

• tired and defeated

• upset and concerned

• amused and victorious

What is this passage mostly about?

• slavery outside of what is now the United States.

• how much land people had to own in order to benefit from slavery.

• fights in Congress throughout United States history.

• the issue of slavery in new territories before the Civil War

Read the following sentences: “Slavery became a moral issue. More and more Northerners were against the idea of owning people as if they were property.”

What does the word “moral” mean?

• related to war and fighting

• mathematical in nature

• related to money and business

• concerning right and wrong

Choose the answer that best completes the sentence below.

Congress had many fights about slavery in the territories, _______ they made a compromise.

• while

• because

• while

• so

Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the south:

• Commitment to the Cause

• Population

• Defensive War

• Better Trained Army

Which of the following WAS NOT an advantage of the North in the Civil War?

• Railroads

• Industrialization

• Well Trained Army

• Population

War between people of the same country

• secede
• state's rights
• civil war
• slavery