Civil War

Question 1

________________ was a chain of homes where escaped slaves could ask for help or find shelter.

Accepted Answer

Underground Railroad

Question 2

This person led a raid at Harper's Ferry, he was later convicted and hanged for his crimes

Accepted Answer

John Brown

Question 3

Which word best describes the work of the North before the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

factory

Question 4

What problem did the Missouri Compromise solve?

Accepted Answer

Northerners did not want more slave states than free states

Question 5

Who was president of the Confederate States of America?

Accepted Answer

Jefferson Davis

Question 6

Which best describes the Dred Scott decision?

Accepted Answer

Slaves or freed slaves are not citizens of the United States

Question 7

Who was the Union president during the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 8

What was the name of the famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman

Question 9

This person was the publisher of the abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator.

Accepted Answer

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 10

What event was the end of the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Surrender at Appomattox Court House

Question 11

What battle was the turning point in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 12

Which abolitionist published The North Star newspaper?

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglas

Question 13

What is the name given to someone who worked to end slavery?

Accepted Answer

abolitionist

Question 14

Born a slave in New York and was an African American woman who spoke out against slavery

Accepted Answer

Sojourner Truth

Question 15

The _______________ North was dependent on it's factories for their economy.

Accepted Answer

Industrial

Question 16

This person wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin after the Compromise of 1850.

Accepted Answer

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 17

A self-taught reader who escaped slavery and later published The North Star

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglas

Question 18

This separated the North from the South and was the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania

Accepted Answer

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 19

What was the big industry in the South?

Accepted Answer

cotton

Question 20

What was the name of the law that required citizens to turn in runaway slaves?

Accepted Answer

The Fugitive Slave Law

Question 21

What part of the country was more supportive of slavery?

Accepted Answer

the South

Question 22

This person escaped slavery and became the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman

Question 23

Which best describes Abraham Lincoln's view on slavery?

Accepted Answer

It was not to spread into new states and territories

Question 24

What was the name of the general of the Union army?

Accepted Answer

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 25

What does the word "secede" mean?

Accepted Answer

to withdraw

Question 26

What was the name of the new nation started by the South?

Accepted Answer

Confederate States of America

Question 27

Who was the general that led many successful battles for the Confederate army?

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 28

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

Accepted Answer

statement giving freedom to slaves in all Confederate states

Question 29

The _________________ South grew cash crops and their way of life was dependent on slavery.

Accepted Answer

Agricultural

Question 30

Who tried to lead an armed rebellion against slavery?

Accepted Answer

John Brown

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