Civil War 7th Grade SS Part 2

Slavery was essential to the southern economy. People in the South thought slavery was necessary to make ____. Slaves worked on large farms. The biggest cash crop in the South and Texas was ____.

• crops, cotton

• land, tools

• supplies, cotton

• supplies, lands

Southerners ________ increasing the tariffs because their economy was agricultural (based on farming), and they relied on hard labor.

• opposed

• supported

• nothing

The four major causes of the Civil War:

• Freedom, hard labor, State's Rights and Secede

• Slavery, Blockade, State's Rights and Confederacy

• Slavery, Sectionalism, State's Rights and Tariffs

• Unionist, Abolitionist, Confederates, Sharecrops

Sharecroppers are people who worked the land in exchange for _______

• freedom

• half the value of their crops

• Money

• supplies and tools

Abolitionist is a person who wanted _______to be ended everywhere.

• labor

• tariffs

• slavery

• blockade

_____ were those that supported the North during the war, but were from the South.

• Democrats

• Unionist

• Confederates

• Republican

_____ were those that supported the South during the war.

• Democrats

• Unionist

• Confederates

• Republican

To leave from a larger group you belong to. (In the Civil War, the South and Texas, seceded from the Union)

• Blockade

• Slavery

• Sectionalism

• Secede

Southern states believed they had the right to make their own ____ about slavery.

• rules

• laws

• ordinances

• oath

Abraham Lincoln was a:

• Republican

• Democrat

• none