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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Emancipation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was President Lincoln's original reason for starting the Civil War?
(a) To free the slaves.
(b) To teach the southern states not to rebel.
(c) To split the Union.
(d) To preserve the Union.

2. Whose account is an example of a joyous occasion seen at the auction block?
(a) Lou Smith.
(b) Jenny Proctor.
(c) Doc Daniel Dowdy.
(d) Prince Bee.

3. With whom did slave owners sometimes try to be gentle with before they bought them?
(a) Young women.
(b) Young men.
(c) Children.
(d) Old women.

4. Slave traders chained slaves together in a line in what was called a _________________.
(a) Slave line-up.
(b) Slave coffle.
(c) Slave auction.
(d) Slave chain.

5. Most of the time when a slave was going to be __________, he/she _____________ know about it in advance.
(a) sold; did.
(b) sold; did not.
(c) bred; did.
(d) bred; did not.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the South surrender to the North?

2. What event set off a large amount of slave selling?

3. ____________ was the practice of slave owners which resulted in more children for next generation labor and an easy way to make a profit through sales.

4. Who was the general of the Union Army?

5. What did hundred of slaves do when they heard of the Civil War?

(see the answer key)

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