VS.7 Review Civil War Test - Questions
1. As new states formed in the
western territory, on what issue
did the Northern and Southern
states disagree?
2. What happened in the
Confederate capital of Richmond
near the end of the civil war?
3. What did some southern
states do after the election of
Abraham Lincoln in 1860?
4. What is an abolitionist?
5. What is secession?
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6. What were the Northern
and Southern states like
before the Civil War?
7. How was West Virginia
formed?
8. What did Harriet Tubman
do?
9. What did Nat Turner do?
10. What did John Brown do?
VS.7 Review Civil War - Answers
1. As new states were forming in
the western territory, the
Northern and Southern states
disagreed on slave states versus
free states.
2. Richmond fell to General
Ulysses S. Grant and was burned
near the end of the war.
3. The southern states weren’t
happy with the election of
Abraham Lincoln because they
thought he would end slavery.
They seceded from the Union.
4. An abolitionist is someone
against slavery. Abolitionists
wanted slavery to be abolished,
which means to put an end to it.
5. Secession means leaving
something. The South seceded
from the Union.
6. The northern states were colder.
The
economy of the North was industrial with lots
of factories.
The economy of the South was based on
farming, which requires more labor in the
form of slaves.
7. The eastern and western
counties disagreed over slavery.
This eventually led to the
formation of West Virginia.
8. Harriet Tubman helped slaves
escape on the Underground Railroad (a
series of safe houses heading north
that slaves could use until they were
safe from recapture) for 10 years.
9. Nat Turner led a revolt in 1831
killing white people.
10. John Brown was an abolitionist
who captured arsenal at Harper’s
Ferry.