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7. A reader of the article could determine that
a. the North was for slavery
b. the North was opposed to slavery because they didn’t want the South to
outnumber them
c. the North’s manufacturing industry was failing due to the opposition of slavery
by its people
d. the North had lost the Civil War which lasted four years

8. Which of these states a fact?
a. The South was more prosperous than the North because of the pro-slavery
attitude.
b. All Southerners opposed the idea of setting slaves free.
c. In 1865, the Confederacy finally surrendered ending the four-year bloody and
costly struggle and emancipating large numbers of slaves across the land.
d. All Northerners supported the abolition of slavery.

9. The article was created mainly to

a. entertain the reader about the Civil War
b. inform the reader about the abolition of slavery
c. inform the reader about the differences between the North and the South in the
United States
d. inform the reader about how the Confederate States of America was formed

10. The words bloody and costly struggle describe
a. the hate between the Northerners and the Southerners
b. the Civil War
c. the Confederate’s attempt to change states into slave owning states
d. the struggle for the States to become separate from England

True or False
Check “T” for true and “F” for false.

a. Even before the U.S. gained its independence, the T F
North and the South already had differences, which

were mainly rooted on the issues of tariffs, states’
rights, and slavery.

b. The North welcomed tariffs, which protected its T F
industries from foreign products.

c. The South supported the states’ rights.
d. In 1860, southern states began to secede from the T F

Union. T F

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