Mid-Unit 4 Social Studies Assessment: Civil War

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• A. Harriet Tubman
• B. Abraham Lincoln
• C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• D. Louisa May Alcott

Which abolitionist led an attack on Harpers Ferry and called for a slave rebellion?

• A. John Brown
• B. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• C. Abraham Lincoln
• D. Robert E. Lee

Which law required citizens to return runaway slaves to their owners?

• A. Underground Railroad
• B. Fugitive Slave Law
• C. States’ rights
• D. Missouri Compromise

What part of the United States had an urban, industrialized economy with factories, and they specialized in making weapons?

• A. The Northern states
• B. The Southern states
• C. The Western territories
• D. Canada

The part of the United States that had an agricultural economy with large cotton plantations in the 1800s was ____________.

• A. The Northern states
• B. The Southern states
• C. The Western territories
• D. Canada

An abolitionist is someone who.......

• A. supports slavery
• B. opposes slavery
• C. opposes war
• D. supports states’ rights.

The Civil War began because of the issues of slavery and ____________.

• A. disputes over who owned the Ohio Valley Territory
• B. westward expansion of the United States
• C. the national government
• D. states’ rights

8. Many people in the south wanted to __________ the Union.

• A. join with
• B. secede from
• C. enter into
• D. remain with

The president of the Confederate States of America....

• A. Jefferson Davis
• B. Robert E. Lee
• C. Ulysses S. Grant
• D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

10. The head general of the Confederate Army....

• A. Jefferson Davis
• B. Robert E. Lee
• C. Ulysses S. Grant
• D. Harriet Beecher Stowe