Causes of the Civil War Assessment

Who fought the North in the American Civil War?

• East

• West

• South

• England

What was at the center of of the economy in the North during the Civil War?

• Farming

• Media

• Transportation

• Industry

Why did the South need slaves, but the North didn't?

• Large plantations in the south needed slave labor to profit

• Slave labor was needed to work the mines in the South

• The South didn't want slave labor

• Slaves ran the appliance factories in the South

What were people who wanted to outlaw slavery called?

• Abolitionists

• Tories

• Southerners

• Federalists

True or False: The southern states wanted the federal government to have all the power and make all the laws.

• True

• False

In what state did the first fighting over slavery take place?

• Georgia

• Pennsylvania

• Kansas

• Virginia

What was the Main cause of the Civil War

• Slavery

• Greed

• Selfish

• Northern

What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?

• Fugitive

• Abolitionist

• Secessionist

• Whig

Runaway slaves used the ______ to escape to the North and freedom.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Underground Railroad

• Escaped Slave Expressway

• The Ohio River

This slave led a rebellion in Virginia that killed at least 55 people

• Gabriel

• Denmark Vesey

• Nat Turner

• John Brown