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Causes of Civil War & Secession

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word describes the 'way of life' in the North?

a)

Rural

b)

Agriclutural

c)

Country

d)

Urban

2.

What product did the South sell to foreign countries like Great Britain?

a)

Sugar

b)

Finished or manufactured goods

c)

Cotton

d)

Vanilla

3.
What is a tariff?
a)
A large bail of cotton.
b)
a tax on imported goods and products
c)
a machine to cut cotton
d)
a foreign soldier
4.

Which area favored tariffs? (Because it made goods brought from other countries more expensive and encouraged people to buy goods made in the USA)

a)

North

b)

South

c)

East

d)

West

5.

Which word best describes the 'way of life' in the South?

a)

Manufacturing

b)

Cold

c)

Agricultural

d)

Anti-slavery

6.
To break away from a group
a)
state's rights
b)
slavery
c)
Gettysburg
d)
secede
7.

Each state should be able to decide their issues for themselves and the National Government should not interfere.

a)

slavery

b)

state's rights

c)

secede

d)

Gettysburg

8.
An abolitionist is  
a)
a person who fights for slavery
b)
a soldier that fights for the Confederate
c)
A person who fights against slavery
d)
a soldier that fights for the Union
9.

A tax on imported goods was called a ______________. The south did not like this.

a)

states' right

b)

tariff

c)

farce

d)

Union

10.
A series of passageways to escape to freedom was the
a)
Underground Railroad
b)
tunnel vision quest
c)
Freedom Crossing
d)
way to slavery
11.

What was the Confederacy?

a)

Country of 11 southern states that seceded from the Union during the American Civil War

b)

Rights/Powers given to the states by the U.S. Constitution

c)

Someone who supports the Union but lives in the South

d)

The United Stats of America

12.

What is it called when states should have the power to decide whether or not they follow national policy/laws?

a)

urban

b)

tariff

c)

state rights

d)

rural

13.

The Fugitive Slave Law did what?

a)

Made it a crime to be a slave

b)

Made being an abolitionist a crime

c)

Required northerners to assist in sending fugitive (runaway) slaves back to the South

d)

Made slaves that ran away to Canada free and middle class

14.

Which section of the country had manufacturing and factories in cities and towns?

a)

West

b)

North

c)

East

d)

South

15.
The people of the ________________ part of the Country did not approve of slavery. They felt it was morally wrong to own slaves.
a)
Western
b)
Eastern
c)
Southern
d)
Northern
16.

The Southern States started to quit, or secede from the United States as soon as _________________ was elected President.

a)

James Madison

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

George Washington

d)

Abraham Lincoln

17.
This section of the country used slave labor and wanted States' rights.
a)
South
b)
North
c)
East
d)
North
18.
The ____________ _________ seceded from the United States and formed a new country called the Confederate States of America.
a)
Northern states
b)
Southern states
c)
Eastern states
d)
Western states
19.

These states were called border states: Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and West Virginia because

a)

they allowed slavery, but stayed in the Union

b)

they were free states that seceded

c)

they were neither free nor slave states

d)

they formed a 3rd country called: Border States of America

20.

Which of the below groups were southern states that seceded and formed the Confederate States of America?

a)

Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, & Virginia

b)

Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia & Maryland

c)

New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island

d)

California and Texas