The Civil War - chapters 1- 4

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Thomas Jefferson

• b) Nat Turner

• Eli Whitney

• John C. Calhoun

The Missouri Compromise

• allowed Missouri to become a state if it outlawed slavery.

• created a line with free states north of it and slave states to the south.

• divided the Missouri Territory into the states of Missouri and Illinois

• allowed Missouri to become a state without Congress’s approval.

Who was Frederick Douglass?

• the first African American to serve in Congress

• an escaped slave who became an abolitionist

• a soldier in the Massachusetts 54th Regiment

• the author of the Emancipation Proclamation

What is an abolitionist?

• a secret society that fought violently against equal rights for African American people

• a person who worked to end slavery during the 1700s and 1800s

• the act of setting someone or something free

• a secret organization that helped slaves escape to freedom

Who was one of the most famous conductors of the Underground Railroad?

• John Adams

• Frederick Douglas

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

What was the Underground Railroad?

• a person who worked to end slavery during the 1700s and 1800s

• the act of setting someone or something free

• a secret society that fought violently against equal rights for African American people

• a secret organization that helped slaves escape to freedom

Who was Lloyd William Garrison?

• started "The Liberator" newspaper

• all the choices listed

• an abolitionist

• someone that helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society

What was the name of the slave that led an uprising and killed fifty-five men, women and children?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglas

What is the definition of Union?

• a secret society that fought violently against equal rights for African American people

• an official change or addition to the Constitution

• the states that made up the United States of America; during the Civil War the states that supported the U.S. government

• a secret organization that helped slaves escape to freedom

What was the constitutional amendment?

• rights that all people are born with and that cannot be taken away by the government

• an official change or addition to the Constitution

• a member of the Senate in the Congress of the United States

• permission to join a group or enter a place