US - Sectionalism and Civil War - 21-22

Which of these people played a significant role in the Abolitionist Movement prior to the Civil War?

• William Lloyd Garrison - publisher of "The Liberator"

• Frederick Douglass - founder of the "North Star"

• Harriet Beecher Stowe - author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• ALL of these are correct

Members of the "Free-Soil" Party were AGAINST the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the U.S. What other political party was also against this slavery expansion?

• the Republican Party

• the Democratic Party

• the American Party

• the Know-Nothing Party

What machine, invented by Eli Whitney, helped expand the plantation system in the United States?

• the cotton gin

• the steel plow

• the combine harvester

• the mechanical reaper

The question of expanding slavery into the West caused -

• sectional conflict in the years leading up to the Civil War

• the populations of western states to increase rapidly

• the country to unite in it's desire to abolish slavery

• the U.S.-Mexican War to begin

The use of slaves on cash-crop plantations led to -

• increased profits for plantation owners

• the urbanization of most Northern cities

• periods of flooding followed by long droughts

• the building of more factories in the South

Look at the election map and circle graphs provided. Based on this information, Lincoln became President by winning -

• the northern states, California, and Oregon

• all of the southern states

• the Nebraska, Utah, and New Mexico territories

• the Mid-Atlantic states of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee

This quote is part of President Abraham Lincoln's response to several southern states seceding from the Union. Based on this quote, Lincoln feels that the South leaving the Union was -

• unjustified

• acceptable

• foolish

• reasonable

Where did the Civil War officially begin in April of 1861?

• Fort Sumter - a Union fort located in Confederate territory

• Washington D.C. - the capital of the Union

• Richmond - the capital of the Confederacy

• San Antonio - a military storehouse of weapons and supplies

According to the graph provided, which side had the resource advantage during the Civil War?

• the Union

• the Confederacy

• the two sides were exactly even

• this graph does not show that information

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which -

• freed the slaves in the rebelling southern states

• finally brought the long Civil War to an end

• forced thousands of American males to join the Union army

• formally declared that the U.S. would continue as two separate countries