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Civil War
Lesson 1 Test Questions
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Social Studies
5th Grade
05/04/2014

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In the South, after the invention of the cotton gin...
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planters bought more land and more enslaved people
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Sectionalism increased because of conflicts over
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tariffs and slavery.
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After 1820, the production of cotton in the South
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increased rapidly
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What did Abolitionists do to stop slavery?
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They wrote and spoke against slavery.
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Abolitionists were
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free blacks and whites, men and women.
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Which abolitionists were once enslaves?
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Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth
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Most of the money for The Liberator and the Underground Railroad come from
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free blacks
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Where did the Underground Railroad lead?
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to the North and Canada or to Mexico, Florida, or the Caribbean
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The Northern states wanted to
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make slavery illegal
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The Fugitive Slave Law ordered people to
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return runaways to slavery
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book about
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the cruelty of slavery
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In the Dred Scott decision the Supreme Court said
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enslaved people were property and had no rights.
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John Brown attacked the Army post to
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start a slave rebellion.
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