6th Grade History Chapter 5

Mills in Britain and New England increased the value of ___________ because it was needed for textile mills.

• soy beans

• corn

• cotton

• indigo

Southern states passed laws to control both enslaved and free blacks after ______________’s rebellion.

• Dred Scott

• Nat Turner

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

The _______’s economy was industrial and based on factories and businesses, while the ______’s economy was agricultural and mostly based on farming.

• West and East

• North and South

• South and North

• East and West

There were fewer farmers in the North by 1860 because ______________ jobs drew people to cities where the factories were.

• Manufacturing

• Shipping

• Farming

• Railroad

When did the abolitionist movement grow quickly?

• 1920s and 1930s

• 1830s and 1840s

• 1850s and 1860s

• 1930s and 1840s

In 1831 William Lloyd Garrison printed a newspaper called _____________.

• The Liberator

• The Runaways

• The Freedom Stories

• The Underground Railroad

Free black leaders and some whites founded the ____________ Anti-Slavery Society.

• Canadian

• African

• Mexican

• American

Harriet Tubman was known as the most famous conductor of the _________________.

• Underground Railroad

• Train Station

• Subway

• Underground Railway

The ________________and the Mexican War opened up new lands for settlers in the United States in the 1800s.

• Tennessee Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase

• Alabama Purchase

• Mississippi Purchase

The Compromise of _____ allowed popular sovereignty in some territories so that they could choose whether to allow slavery.

• 1840

• 1850

• 1860

• 1870