Semester II Final PRACTICE TEST

Which of the following's MAIN purpose was to find a permanent solution to the 'slavery question'?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Tariff of Abominations

• Black Codes

Which of the following are advantages the Union had over the Confederacy?

• The North had a larger population

• The North had more resources

• The North had better generals

• The North was fighting a defensive war

Which of the following are advantages the Confederacy had over the Union?

• The South had a larger population

• The South had more resources

• The South had better generals

• The South was fighting a defensive war

Which of the following caused a 'Cycle of Debt'?

• sharecropping

• Tariffs

• Black Codes

• 13th Amendment

Which of the following people was a slave turned abolitionist and women's rights pioneer?

• Sojourner Truth

• Dorothea Dix

• Frederick Douglass

• Martha Washington

Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the Cotton Gin?

• it made cotton production much cheaper

• it encouraged the growth of the plantation system westward

• it increased the need for slaves on cotton plantations

• it decreased the need for slaves on cotton plantations

What was a consequence of the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion?

• harsher slave codes were passed

• slavery was banned in the South

• slavery become more popular in the North

• it became more difficult to buy and sell slaves

When new states joined the Union what question became important?

• Would the new state allow slavery?

• Did the new state have valuable minerals?

• Would the new state allow settlers?

• Would the area's Spanish speakers learn English?

In which speech of Lincoln's did he express the feeling that the US would have to be either all slave or all free, but not both?

• House Divided Speech

• Gettysburg Address

• Second Inaugural Address

• First Inaugural Address

When were African Americans able to join the Union Army?

• after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation

• after the passage of the 13th Amendment

• after the passage of the 14th Amendment

• after the Civil War was won