5th Grade UIL Practice Social Studies

Which cause best completes the chart?

• Free Enterprise

• Progressivism

• States' rights

• Nationalism

How do differences between the two regions increase so dramatically?

• Politicians tried to pass laws in the best interest of the nation

• Southerners lived a mostly rural way of life

• Trade agreements between the two sections brought them closer together

• A dominant religion in both sections brought them together

Which crop brought a greater demand for slavery in the south?

• Cotton

• Wheat

• Corn

• Hay

How were African American lives more difficult after the end of Reconstruction?

• A public school system was established

• Many industries expanded in the South

• Families were able to stay together

• Jim Crow Laws restricted where they could go

“But who, sir, makes the trader? Who is most to blame? The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? You make the public sentiment that calls for this trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he?”- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Which novel, that describes the cruelties of slavery, was able to win many people over to the abolitionist cause?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Pride and Prejudice

• Red Badge of Courage

• Lincoln

Who was the abolitionist leader that planned to steal weapons from the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia to use in an attack on slave owners in Virginia?

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Joseph Cinque

Which battle, as part of the Anaconda Plan, called for Union troops to gain control of the Mississippi River to weaken the Confederacy?

• Chickamauga

• New Orleans

• Shiloh

• Vicksburg

Nicknamed "The Great Compromiser"

Helped create the Missouri Compromise in 1820

Created the Compromise of 1850

Who was best known for these political actions?

• James Garfield

• Sam Houston

• Henry Clay

• Winfield Scott

Volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War

Nicknamed the "Angel of the Battlefield"

Founded the American Red Cross

Which individual is best described in this diagram?

• Jane Addams

• Clara Barton

• Mary Hayes

• Lucretia Mott

What new industry created a growing demand for products made of oil?

• Electric Lightbulb

• Typewriter

• Automobile

• Mechanical reaper