8th Grade Extra Credit 2

A person fighting against slavery was known as _________.

• a plantation owner
• a protester
• an abolitionist

Who was Nat Turner?

• A slave who led a slave revolt against plantation owners.
• An abolitionist who helped with a slave revolt.
• A slave who fought for the North to end slavery.

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

• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas Jefferson
• Abraham Lincoln

Who was Harriet Tubman?

• A former slave owner who continued to fight for slavery.
• An escaped slave who helped other slaves to freedom.

What were the reasons for the start of the civil war?

• economy, slavery, new states
• economy, jobs, income
• slavery, new states
• economy, new states

Which group did not take sides in the Civil War?

• American Indians
• Whites
• African Americans
• English

Who won the war?

• Confederacy
• Union
• England
• France

The primary reason the Civil War as fought was over the issue of

• tariffs

• slavery

• states rights

• trade with Europe

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

• they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

• they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

• he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

• he had a plan to raise taxes

One reason South Carolina chose to leave the Union was because:

• the other states refused to trade with South Carolina

• people in the state believed their state's rights were being denied

• the state was paying high tariffs.

• plantation owners were being forced to trade with northern businesses