Civil War

Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• to show the harsh treatment of enslaved people

• to make a lot of money for women’s suffrage

• to end John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry

• to help start the Civil War

What movement did more people support after reading the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• the abolition movement

• the free speech movement

• the environmental movement

• the women's rights movement

Why did John Brown attack a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

• to get guns to use to capture escaped enslaved people

• to convince the federal government to invade the South

• to get guns to arm enslaved people so they could escape

• to convince the southern states to secede from the Union

What does "states' rights" mean in the context of the southern states before the Civil War?

• A state has to follow all federal laws.

• A state can ignore any federal law it does not like.

• A state has to free all enslaved people in their state.

• A state can enslave people as long as they count them in the census.

Why did southern states want to practice states' rights?

• They wanted to ignore any new laws against slavery.

• They were concerned about new laws requiring factories.

• They wanted to ignore any new laws that helped the North.

• They were concerned that there were too many enslaved people.

What were enslaved people forced to work long hours planting and harvesting in the South?

• apples

• cash crops

• gold

• wheat

What did southern lawmakers argue would be destroyed by abolishing slavery?

• churches

• economy

• government

• schools

Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place?

• Atlanta

• Gettysburg

• Fort Sumter

• Appomattox

What impact did the Emancipation Proclamation have on the Civil War?

• It helped the Confederacy win the war.

• It made the goal of the war to end slavery.

• It led to more people being enslaved in the Confederacy.

• It kept General Sherman from marching through Georgia.

In his Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln said that enslaved people living in states that left the _____ were free.

• Confederacy

• South

• Texas Annexation

• Union