Civil War Quiz

Before the Civil War, the economy of the North was mostly based on...

• manufacturing and industry
• Slavery

• mining and natural resources
• agriculture and farming

Before the Civil War, the economy of the South was mostly based on...

• agriculture
• technology
• mining
• manufacturing

The cheapest form of labor at this time was _____ because the farmers did not have to pay their workers a wage.

• child labor
• indentured servitude
• chain-gangs

• slavery

A tariff is a tax placed on _____ goods.

• exported
• domestic
• manufactured
• imported

Which compromise established the Fugitive Slave Law?

• Compromise of 1787
• Compromise of 1850
• Compromise of 1877
• Compromise of 1820

Time period in the South following the Civil War.

• Antebellum era
• Manifest Destiny era
• Gilded Age
• Reconstruction era

Which of the following was a FREE state before the Civil War?

• Florida

• Pennsylvania

• Georgia

• Mississippi

The Dred Scott case was the Supreme Court Case where Roger Taney ruled that Scott did not have the right to sue his owner because slaves were NOT _______.

• entitled to freedom
• citizens
• human beings
• property owners

Who won the election of 1860?

• Abraham Lincoln
• William T. Sherman

• George Washington
• Jefferson Davis

Popular soverignity gave states the right to ____ to decide if they would be a slave or free state.

• buy
• sell
• rent
• vote