The Civil War Test Review

Why was slavery important to the economy in the South before the Civil War?

• It was forbidden for white people to do work in the South.

• The economy was mainly industrial and needed many people to work in factories.

• There was a shortage of laborers, and the South needed as many workers as possible.

• The south's agricultural economy relied on slave labor to produce tobacco, sugar, rice, and cotton.

How did the economy of the South during the Antebellum era compare to that of the North?

• The South's economy was based on wage labor and trade, while the North's economy

  was based upon industrialism and all-slave labor.

• The South's economy was dependent upon industries, while the North's economy was

  dependent upon agriculture.

• The South's economy was based upon agriculture and slave labor, while the North's

  economy was based upon industrialization and wage labor.

• The South's economy was dictated to them by the British, while the Northern economy

  was run by the Puritans.

Both Lincoln and the Confederacy's President, Jefferson Davis, believed that _________ caused the split of the U.S.

• the dispute over slavery and its status in the federal territories.

• taxation without representation

• gun control laws

• unwarranted Northern aggression

Which of the following was an attempt to maintain an equal balance between free states and slave states?

• The Treaty of Ghent

• The Homestead Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Fugitive Slave Act

What was NOT a result of the Missouri Compromise?

• Slavery was not allowed north of the southern border of Missouri at the 36°30 parallel.

• Missouri was added as a slave state.

• Maine was added as a free state.

• California was added as a free state.

Definition: The process where the white residents of the territory were allowed to decide if slavery would be legal in that territory or state.

• popular sovereignty

• secede

• abolition

• emancipation

The Compromise of 1850 dealt with territory that the United States had acquired because of which event?

• The Mexican-American War

• The Adams-Onís Treaty

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Oregon Treaty of 1846

Which was NOT a result of the Compromise of 1850?

• California was admitted as a free state.

• rest of the land would be split into two (Utah and New Mexico) and the people would decide on slavery.

• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C.

• Maine was admitted as a free state.

Which of the following acts repealed part of the Missouri Compromise?

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Indian Removal Act

Which was NOT a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Resident of Kansas and Nebraska would be able to choose whether slavery would be allowed in the territories.

• Repealed the Missouri Compromise

• California was admitted as a free state.

• "Bleeding Kansas"