Civil War Test Review

What period marks the beginning of scientific and technological development that transformed largely handmade, farming societies into industrialized cities?

• Reformation Movement

• Industrial Revolution

• Civil War

• American Revolution

Which of the following was NOT an invention made during the Industrial Revolution?

• Telephone

• Locomotive

• Telegraph

• Food canning

The different economic activities between the North and South led to a rise in...

• Sectionalism

• Taxation

• Nullification

• Boycotts

Which invention influenced changes in cotton production and slavery in the United States between 1800 and 1860?

• Locomotive

• Telegraph

• Cotton Gin

• Steam Engine

How did the cotton gin influence slavery?

• Increased the number of slaves.

• Decreased the number of slaves.

• Kept the number of slaves the same.

• Abolished slavery

The North and South had many differences, but one thing they had in common was...

• Discrimination of African Americans

• The abolition of slavery

• Inventions made things slower

• The sale of cotton

This was a compromise that made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state.

• Compromise of 1850

• Great Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

What was the reasoning behind making Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state?

• To make sure that there were more slave states than free states.

• To maintain the balance of power in government between free and slave states.

• To ensure there were more free states than slave states.

• They used popular sovereignty to decide whether these states would be slave or free.

This compromise made California a free state.

• Compromise of 1850

• Great Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

This compromise made the Fugitive Slave Act stronger, forcing Northerners to return runaway slaves back to the South.

• Compromise of 1850

• Great Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise