Civil War Quiz

1. What did Abolitionists want to do?

• A. Spread slavery to the other states.

• B. End slavery throughout the United States.

• C. Limit slavery just to South Carolina.

• D. None of the above.

2. What were "States’ Rights"?

• A. States in the north have the right to make their own decisions.

• B. States in the south have the right to make their own decisions.

• C. Each state has the right to make its own decisions.

• D. The federal government has the right to make decisions.

3. What well known South Carolinian abolitionists worked to end slavery?

• A. John C. Calhoun and Robert Barnwell Rhett.

• B. Jefferson and Robert Davis.

• C. Wade and John Hampton.

• D. Sarah and Angelina Grimke.

4. Why were southerners upset when Lincoln was elected president?

• A. They wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery.

• B. He had a plan to raise taxes.

• C. He wanted the northern states to secede from the Union.

• D. They believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of

  life.

5. The citizens of South Carolina strongly felt they had to defend their way of life because:

• A. They needed mills in order to produce more cotton.

• B. They needed the capital to be moved so that people from all over our state could attend meetings.

• C. They depended on slave labor to work the large plantations.

• D. They depended on the middle class to work the fields and make a good living.

6. One of the reasons South Carolina seceded from the Union was:

• A. people believed their state’s rights were being denied.

• B. the other states refused to trade with South Carolina.

• C. our state was too far away from the state capital.

• D. plantation owners were being forced to trade with northern businesses.

7. What happened at the Secession Convention?

• A. The leaders signed the Ordinance of Secession, which said South Carolina had left the Union.

• B. The leaders all got sick with yellow fever.

• C. The leaders decided not to secede.

• D. The leaders got into a fight, and nothing was solved.