3rd Quarter Social Studies Test

What was a major part of the economy in the 1850's?

• growing wheat

• manufacturing

• growing cotton

• mining

In the South, most of the people who picked and cleaned cotton were...

• immigrants from Asia

• immigrants from Europe

• free African Americans

• enslaved African Americans

What was the purpose of the underground railroad?

• helping slaves escape to freedom

• transporting slaves from Africa to the US

• returning escaped slaves to their owners

• bringing slaves to newly settled parts of the United States

Abolitionists were people who wanted to

• keep women from earning money

• give women the right to vote

• end slavery in the United States

• return escaped slaves to their owners

Which of these happened after Abe Lincoln was elected president?

• Congress passed teh Missouri Compromise

• Seven Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America

• The Supreme Court ruled that a slave is property

• Violence broke out in Kansas between slave owners and free soilers

In the 1850's slavery was a major part of the economy

• True

• False

In the South, large plantations used unpaid slaves to work the crops.

• True

• False

In the North, most immigrants worked on farms and were paid

• True

• False

Because the southern part of the United States had plenty of slaves to do the work, European immigrants settled in the northern parts to find work in factories.

• True

• False

The greatest number of slaves lived in the North

• True

• False