The Civil War Pausing Point Quiz

I took care of my mistress’s baby when I was young and escaped from slavery on the Underground Railroad when I was older. Who am I?

• Harriet Tubman/Minty

• Abraham Lincoln

• Conferderacy

• conductor

I am a very large farm where large amounts of crops are grown. What am I called?

• plantation

• conductor

• slavery

• Mason-Dixon Line

I am the secret way enslaved Africans escaped to freedom in the North. What am I called?

• Underground Railroad

• plantation

• slavery

• Mason-Dixon Line

My job was to help lead enslaved Africans, called passengers, to freedom on the Underground Railroad. What am I called?

• conductor

• Confederacy

• Union

• slavery

I am an imaginary line between the states of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and I separate where slavery was allowed and where it was not. What am I called?

• Mason-Dixon Line

• Harriet Tubman/Minty

• Abraham Lincoln

• Union

I was the group of northern states that thought it was wrong for the South to secede from the United States. What am I?

• Union

• Confederacy

• plantation

• The Drinking Gourd

I was the group of southern states that seceded from the United States. What am I?

• Confederacy

• conductor

• Underground Railroad

• Union

I am one of the main issues that caused the U.S. Civil War. What am I?

• slavery

• plantation

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubman/Minty

I was elected president because people in the North believed I would not allow slavery to expand. Who am I?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubman/Minty

• Union

• Confederacy

I am a group of stars that helped guide enslaved Africans to freedom. What am I?

• The Drinking Gourd

• Harriet Tubman/Minty

• conductor

• Underground Railroad