The Civil War

What movement grew, in part, due to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• the abolition movement

• the free speech movement

• the environmental movement

• the women's rights movement

2. What was one impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• increasing discrimination against African Americans in the North

• increasing demands for the government to end slavery in all states

• causing the federal government to increase taxes in Southern states

• convincing Southerners they should not buy goods made in the North

3. Why did John Brown attack a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

• to convince the federal government to invade the South

• to convince the southern states to secede from the Union

• to obtain guns to use to capture escaped enslaved people

• to obtain guns to arm enslaved people and carry out a rebellion

4. What did John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia prove about the abolition movement?

• abolitionists were going to hold peace rallies in slave states

• abolitionists were willing to use violence to help end slavery

• abolitionists were willing to compromise on the issue of slavery

• abolitionists were calling for a war between free and slave states

5. What is the principle called “states’ rights”?

• The belief that a state has to follow all federal laws.

• The belief that a state can ignore any federal law it does not like.

• The belief that a state can make its own laws even if citizens do not like them.

• The belief that a state can enslave people as long as they count them in the census.

6. Why did southern states want to practice states’ rights so much?

• They were concerned that the enslaved population was growing too fast.

• They wanted to ignore any new laws against slavery that northern lawmakers might make.

• They were concerned that new laws requiring factories in the South could hurt cotton production.

• They wanted to ignore any new laws helping northern states that northern lawmakers might make.

7. Which difference between the North and South helped caused the Civil War?

• There were more enslaved people in the South, and wealthy slaveowners believed their way of life would be destroyed if the federal government outlawed slavery.

• There were more factories in the South, and many factory workers believed their way of life would be destroyed if the federal government raised taxes.

• There were more shipping companies in the South, and boat builders believed they would not have enough business if the federal government outlawed foreign trade.

• There were more American Indians in the South, and many farmers believed they would not have enough labor if the federal government forced the American Indians to move.

8. Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place?

• Atlanta

• Gettysburg

• Fort Sumter

• Appomattox

9. The Battle of Gettysburg resulted in which of the following?

• The Union regained territory that it had lost to the Confederacy.

• The Confederacy stopped a major Union invasion of Pennsylvania.

• The Union Army halted a Confederate advance into Union territory.

• The Confederacy gained a large amount of territory from the Union.

10. What made the Battle of Gettysburg a turning point in the Civil War?

• The Confederate victory convinced Canada to support the Confederacy.

• The Confederate victory allowed the Confederacy to capture Union territory.

• The Union victory forced the Confederacy to stop advancing into Union territory.

• The Union victory convinced President Lincoln to send Gen. Sherman to Atlanta.