What was the South's most important crop, which they sold for money?
Cotton.
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What are the Confederates?
This is what the Southern states were called during the Civil War.
200
What is a plantation?
A large farm.
200
The reason John Brown attacked the Army building called Harpers Ferry.
What is to start a slave rebellion.
200
Name four states that were part of the Union.
Answers will vary.
200
Name four states that were part of the Confederacy.
Answers will vary.
300
What is the Union?
The Northern part of the United States during the Civil War.
300
What is a textile mill?
A factory where clothing and blankets were made from cotton.
300
The famous antislavery book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was about...
How cruel slavery was.
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What ways did abolitionists in the North try to stop slavery?
They wrote and spoke against slavery.
300
What is the main reason the South wanted to keep slavery legal?
So they would have free workers to pick their cotton.
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What does it mean if a state is mostly agricultural?
They are mostly farming to earn money.
400
What is a fugitive?
Someone who escapes and is running from someone.
400
What were three groups who tried to stop slavery?
Abolitionists, free blacks, and the Underground Railroad
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What event caused the Civil War to start?
When Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter.
400
What are states' rights?
The rights each state has to make rules and laws.
500
What does it mean if a state is mostly industrial?
They are mostly making goods.
500
What does secession mean?
To leave or withdraw. The South seceded from the USA.
500
What is the name of the antislavery newspaper?
The Liberator.
500
Name three abolitionists who lived in the North.
Answers could include: Fredrick Douglas, Garrison, Grimke sisters, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth or Abraham Lincoln.
500
Name two things Southerns felt when Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and why.
Answers may include: They feared that the federal government had become too powerful and Lincoln would try to end slavery. They felt Lincoln being the president was a disaster for them and the only thing they could do was secede from the USA.