Causes of the Civil War Review

The invention of the cotton gin decreased the demand for slaves in the South

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" made Southerners mad because of the way Harriet Beecher Stowe made Southern slave owners look.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The Fugitive Slave Act made life for all African Americans in the Norther harder and more dangerous.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Bleeding Kansas started the Civil War and caused all the Northern states to secede from the Union

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Voting in the 1860 presidential election followed the sectional lines between North and South.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

This person escaped from slavery by using a friend's free papers. Once free, he became an active abolitionist leader and helped with the Underground Railroad.

• Frederick Douglas

• Henry "Box" Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

This person escaped slavery. She became the most famous conductor for the Underground Railroad. She helped hundreds of slaves escape to freedom.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• The Wild Rose of Washington

• Harriet Tubman

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

This person proposed the Compromise of 1850 which was later passed by Congress to try and help keep the North and South happy.

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

• William Seward

• Eli Whitney

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

This area was industrial and relied on free-labor (Paying people to work for you).

• North

• South

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

This area relied on slave labor to work on large plantations.

• North

• South

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3