EOY Review: Causes of the Civil War

Why did Southerners who did not own slaves support slavery?

• They feared the power of the slaveholders.
• They believed they would be able to own slaves someday.
• They knew that the Southern economy depended on slave labor.
• They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.

What did Harriet Tubman’s work with the Underground Railroad involve?

• As a freed slave, she led others to take a stand against slave owners.
• As a freed slave, she bought slaves and then gave them their freedom.
• As an escaped slave, she guided slaves from the South to freedom.
• As an escaped slave, she opened a school for those who traveled to Canada.

A complete end to slavery

• abolition
• abolitionist
• emancipation
• dehumanization

John Brown believed the only way to end slavery was by...

• emancipating the slaves
• an armed slave revolt
• the South leaving the US
• sending the slaves to Africa

John Brown attacked Harper's Ferry because it was a...

• military arsenal
• slave prison
• government office
• slave plantation

(a)   escaped from enslavement, was a leader in the abolitionist movement, and became an accomplished writer and public speaker.

• Frederick Douglass
• William Wilberforce
• Adam Smith
• Charles Dickens

What do Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman have in common?

• They each wrote books about their lives as slaves.

• They were slaves who escaped and fought to help other slaves do the same.

• They all taught themselves to read and write.

____ was the movement to end slavery in America.

• The Suffrage Movement

• The Abolition Movement

• The Emancipation Movement

• The Citizen's Rights Movement

What was the Underground Railroad?

• Underground tunnels that went from slave states to Canada

• Secret railroads that enslaved people used to escape north

• Network of safe houses to lead enslaved people to freedom

What is the name of the novel written by Hearriet Beecher Stowe that influenced the nation's feelings about slavery?

• Common Sense

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Of Mice and Men

• The Journey to Freedom