Causes of the Civil War Review

John Brown was hanged for leading a raid on _____.

• Independence Square
• Truman Corners
• Harper's Ferry
• The Landing

What was the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South?

• It reduced the need for slaves on plantations.
• It increased the demand for slaves to produce more cotton.
• It helped improve the slaves' work conditions.
• It had no significant effect on slaves or slavery.

Which of the following best describes John Brown?

• radical abolitionist who used violence to try to end slavery
• a peaceful abolitionists who hated violence
• a pro-slavery Senator
• a strong supporter of slavery who used violence to spread slavery

Believed slavery was morally wrong and worked to end slavery everywhere in the United States.

• Pro-Slavery Advocates

• Free-Soilers

• Abolitionists

Believed slavery should not spread into new territories but could remain where it already existed.

• Pro-Slavery Advocates

• Free-Soilers

• Abolitionists

Argued that slavery benefitted both enslaved people and the country as a whole.

• Pro-Slavery Advocates

• Free-Soilers

• Abolitionists

"The free territories will remain free. I make no war upon the South nor upon slavery in the South. I have no squeamish sensitiveness upon the subject of slavery, nor morbid (gloomy) sympathy for the slave. I plead the cause of the rights of White freemen."

This quotation was written by a(n)

• Pro-slavery advocate

• Free-soiler

• Abolitionist

This region's economy was based on cash crops and plantation agriculture.

• North

• South

• Midwest

• West

This region's economy had more manufacturing and railroads.

• North

• South

• Midwest

• West

This region was known as the “Confederacy” in the Civil War.

• North

• South

• Midwest

• West