Civil War Causes Quiz

Grade 5 · Social Studies · Quiz

How well do you understand what led to the Civil War? Take the quiz and find out!

Questions

1. How many enslaved African Americans were in the United States by 1860?

   1. About 1 million
   2. About 4 million
   3. About 500,000
   4. About 10 million
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   Answer: About 4 million

2. The Confederate States of America was made up of eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union.

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   Answer: True

3. What was the economy of the South mostly based on in 1860?

   1. Industrial manufacturing
   2. Mining and fishing
   3. Cotton and tobacco plantations
   4. Technology and banking
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   Answer: Cotton and tobacco plantations

4. When a state breaks away from a larger nation, it is called __________.

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   Answer: secession

5. Who wrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852?

   1. Frederick Douglass
   2. Abraham Lincoln
   3. Harriet Beecher Stowe
   4. Harriet Tubman
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   Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe

6. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 permanently ended the conflict over slavery.

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   Answer: False

7. The Civil War officially started when Confederate forces attacked:

   1. Bull Run
   2. Fort Sumter
   3. Gettysburg
   4. Antietam
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   Answer: Fort Sumter

8. A person who believed slavery should be abolished (ended) was called an __________.

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   Answer: abolitionist

9. The Northern states were called the Union during the Civil War.

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   Answer: True

10. The 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people were:

    1. free citizens
    2. eligible to vote
    3. property with no rights as citizens
    4. entitled to land in the West
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    Answer: property with no rights as citizens

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