Civil War

Why did John Brown attack a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry

• to get the government to invade the south

• to get guns to arm slaves

• to capture enslaved people

• to get the south to secede (withdraw)from the Union

Where was the first battle of the Civil War?

• Atlanta

• Gettysburg

• Fort Sumter

• Appomattox

One reason the Civil War started was because of the differences between north and south. Which reason in particular?

• The wealthy people in the south did not want to stop making so much money, and that might happen if they don't have slaves to do the work

• the south had more factories and they did not want their taxes raised

• the south did not want their trade interrupted with laws.

• The government wanted the American Indians to move out of the south, and the south wanted them to stay.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's book began an increased demand for the government to end what?

• discrimination

• increase taxes in the south

• slavery

• The north to start farming

John Brown's raid proved what about the abolition movement?

• abolitionists wanted war

• abolitionists would compromise on slavery

• abolitionists would hold peace rallies in slave states

• abolitionists were willing to used violence to end slavery

When Uncle Tom's Cabin book was published, what kind of movement was impacted or grew from this book?

• abolition movement

• free speech

• environmental

• women's rights

What is states' rights?

• The state has to follow all fed. laws

• the state can ignore a federal law if they don't like it

• The state doesn't care if their citizens don't like their laws

• states can enslave people if they count them on the census

Why did they southern states want to practice states' rights so much?

• they wanted to to slow down the amount of slaves being sold

• they did not want to deal with laws that northern states made about slavery

• they did not want to stop growing their cotton

• they didn't like the north, so they were just rebellious

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

Who was the new President elected in 1860?

• John Brown

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Beecher Stowe