Chapter 20 Review: Causes of the Civil War | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Students explore the answer to this driving question: What factors helped drive apart the North and the South in the mid-1800s?

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What two regions fought against each other in the Civil War?

North and South

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A person who wanted to end slavery was called an

Abolitionist

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Why did Southerners not want Lincoln to become president?

He was against slavery being allowed in new territories.

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Where did people in the North start to work?

Factories

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What was the Underground Railroad?

A system that allowed enslaved people to escape to freedom.

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What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?

required Northern officials to help capture fugitives from slavery, or those who had escaped.

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What does the word seceded mean?

to officially withdraw from a government or a country

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What began on April 12, 1861?

The Civil War

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What election happened right before the Civil War and who was voted for?

President- Abraham Lincoln

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Name a famous abolitionist.

xx

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True or False: The Southern part of the United States became the Confederacy.

True

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What novel did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

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