Unit 4 Chapter 2 Slavery, Civil War, and Abolition Study Guide

Who is this person?

• Sojourner Truth

• Jefferson Davis

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

What is he known for? Select the THREE correct answers.

• He was a leader of the Confederacy.

• He was a presidential candidate.

• He was a newspaper publisher.

• He was an author.

• He was an abolitionist.

What, to the American slave, is the Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham...

• The Fourth of July is a fitting way to honor Americans’ struggles for freedom

• White Americans do not celebrate the Fourth of July.

• The Fourth of July should be a day of celebration, not sadness.

• A country that enslaves people has no right to celebrate freedom.

What is the relationship between cotton and enslaved labor in the South?

• As the supply of enslaved workers grew, so did the supply of cotton.

• As the demand for cotton grew, so did the demand for enslaved workers.

• As the demand for enslaved workers fell, the supply of cotton grew.

• As the supply of cotton grew, the demand for enslaved workers fell.

What does the Juneteenth holiday celebrate?

• the end of the Civil War.

• The end of slavery in the United States

• The end of the French and Indian War

• The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

What document did the Thirteenth Amendment change?

• The Bill of Rights

• The Constitution

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Declaration of Independence

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

• It reunited the Union

• It freed enslaved Americans.

• It officially ended the Civil War.

• It banned slavery in the United States.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

• It banned slavery in Union states.

• It banned slavery in the United States

• It freed all enslaved people in the United States.

• It freed all enslaved people in Confederate states.

Eleven states left the Union after Abraham Lincoln was elected president because they thought he was going to _________________.

• Stop the spread of slavery

• Sell Southern farmland

• Abolish slavery

• Raise taxes

Why did President Lincoln send Union troops into war following the Confederacy’s attack on Fort Sumter?

• He knew it was the best chance of ending slavery in America.

• He thought it was the only way to reunite the country.

• He wanted to punish Southerns for leaving the United States.

• He wanted to scare Confederate leaders into surrendering.