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SS8H5 Lesson Assessment

Authored by Dorrian Swinger

Social Studies

8th Grade

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SS8H5 Lesson Assessment
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Abraham Lincoln issues the ______________ with publicly put the Union's antislavery stance on the side of morality and encouraged African Americans to join the Union army. It gave the South a chance to surrender and end the war, but they did not.

Compromise of 1580

Emancipation Proclamation

Pittsburg Address

Dred Scot Case

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What effect did the overpopulation of Andersonville have on its prisoners?

low wages for work

sold into slavery to make room

hunger, poor water supply, and disease

no more soldiers for the Union to win the war

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Abraham Lincoln and the new Republican Party had two main goals during the lead up to the Civil War...

Keep the Union from secession and prevent the spread of slavery.

Move the Natives to the North and send the Rebels to the west.

To collect taxes from every plantation owner and pay for the salves to be sent to their home country.

have the southern states seceded and move on to the territories out west.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was William Sherman's goals with the Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea?

punish and destroy the south, take away their ability to fight the war

convince England to join forces with the Northern Union

rebuild the farms and plantation lost in the war

conquer the Spanish threat in the southern Florida

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"The legal condition of a slave in the State of Missouri is not affected by the temporary sojourn of such slave in any other Sate, but on his return his condition still depends on the laws of Missouri.

As the plaintiff was not a citizen of Missouri, he, therefore, could not sue in the Courts of the United States. The suit must be dismissed for want of jurisdiction."

This excerpt comes from which Supreme Court Case?

Worcester vs Georgia

Brown vs Georgia's Agriculture Commission

Dred Scott Case

Brown vs The People

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following was NOT a result of the Compromise of 1850?

Southern states agreed to end slavery before the war

Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act.

California was admitted as a free state.

It created a power imbalance in House and Senate.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Who was elected President in 1860, which led to the secession of South Carolina?

Abraham Lincoln

Stephen Douglas

Frederick Douglass

John C. Calhoun

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