WorksheetsBenchmark 3
Total questions: 88
Worksheet time: 1hrs 2mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which part of the United States relied heavily on industry?
a)
North
b)
South
c)
West
d)
East
2.
I published an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator." I wanted freedom and equality for all African Americans.
a)
William Lloyd Garrison
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
John Brown
d)
Levi Coffin
3.
I was the most famous ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railroad. I led more than 300 slaves to freedom.
a)
John Brown
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
David Walker
d)
Nat Turner
4.
I escaped slavery and became one of America’s best speakers and writers about the horrors of slavery. I was a personal friend to Abraham Lincoln.
a)
Frederick Douglass
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Nat Turner
d)
Sojourner Truth
5.
Temperance was the movement to stop the use of ________ during the mid-1800s.
a)
tobacco
b)
slavery
c)
factories
d)
alcohol
6.
What religious movement led to the reform movements of the antebellum era?
a)
The Reformation
b)
The Second Great Awakening
c)
The Renaissance
d)
The First Great Awakening
7.
What movement was started because of alcohol abuse in America?
a)
Women's Rights
b)
Abolition
c)
Temperance
d)
Second Great Awakening
8.
While supporting the temperance movement, abolition, and women’s rights, Horace Mann’s greatest achievement was…
a)
Publishing a novel about slavery
b)
The reform of public education
c)
Providing healthcare to the impoverished
d)
Rewriting the constitution
9.
What did Dorothea Dix want to improve?
a)
Shelters for pets
b)
Equality for African Americans
c)
Conditions in prisons
d)
Food distribution
10.
Which part of the United States relied heavily on industry?
a)
North
b)
South
11.
What event was the event held to promote women’s rights in 1848?
a)
The March on Washington
b)
The Sarah Childress Polk Meeting
c)
The Rally in Hyde Park
d)
The Seneca Falls Concention
12.
Which two women led the Women’s Rights Movement?
a)
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
b)
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Sojourner Truth and Dorothea Dix
d)
Betsy Ross and Sacajawea
13.
Who is Dorethea Dix?
a)
a criminal
b)
a reformer
c)
a secret spy
d)
a teacher, who was moved by seeing the horrible conditions of jails and wanted to seek reform
14.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
a)
Party
b)
Temperance Movement
c)
Speech
d)
Religious Movement
15.
He was a transcendentalist and was from New England.
a)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
b)
Edgar Allen Poe
c)
Herman Melville
d)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
16.
A philosophical and literal movement emphasizing a simple life and truth found in yourself and nature.
a)
Socialism
b)
Libertarianism
c)
Communism
d)
Transcendentalism
17.
Which of the following believed that education would lead to a productive society?
a)
Charles Finney
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Horace Mann
d)
WIlliam Lloyd Garrison
18.
Who was the leader of the education reform movement?
a)
Horace Mann
b)
Horse Mann
c)
Neighhhhh
d)
Hoarse Mann
19.
What is an abolitionist?
a)
Someone who wants to abolish or end slavery.
b)
Someone who wants to end voting for slaves.
c)
Someone who doesn't want to work with slaves.
d)
Someone who wants to never wear jeans.
20.
The Underground Railroad was:
a)
A network of secret routes and safe houses starting in the South and ending in the North.
b)
A network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States.
c)
A network of well-known routes and safe houses used by many.
d)
A network of slaves going back and helping other slaves on a regular basis, saving over 2 million.
21.
Who won the battle of Gettysburg?
a)
Union
b)
Confederates
c)
Rebels
d)
Yankees
22.
Who Gave The Gettysburg Address Speech?
a)
Abraham LIncoln
b)
Harriet Beecher stowe
c)
Stonewall jackson
d)
George Washington
23.
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
a)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
b)
Sojourner Truth
c)
Clara Barton
d)
Harriet Tubman
24.
Who laid siege to Vicksburg, Mississippi?
a)
Lee
b)
McClellan
c)
Grant
d)
Sherman
25.
Why is the battle of Vicksburg important?
a)
Split the Confederacy
b)
Confederacy surrenders
c)
Lee is captured
d)
Capital of CSA is captured
26.
What was the law that stated all escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners?
a)
The Slave Act of 1870
b)
The Fugitive Slave Act
c)
The Emancipation Proclamation
d)
The Escaped Slave Law
27.
Which book showed people just how cruel slavery was?
a)
Uncle Mike's Cabin
b)
Uncle Steve's Igloo
c)
Uncle Todd's House
d)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
28.
The president of the Confederate States of America was
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Robert E. Lee
c)
Jefferson Davis
d)
Wade Hampton
29.
The commanding Union general known for his aggressive style of fighting was
a)
Robert E. Lee
b)
Ulysses S. Grant
c)
Robert Smalls
d)
Jefferson Davis
30.
The Union capture of Vicksburg was important because it gave them
a)
a base to attack Washington
b)
a complete blockade
c)
control of the Mississippi River
d)
control of the border states
31.
The Union strategy to win the war involved all of the following EXCEPT
a)
controlling the Mississippi River
b)
capturing the Confederate capital
c)
blockading southern port cities
d)
building a railroad across the South
32.
Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth: All of these were figures in which social movement?
a)
Abolitionist
b)
Temperance
c)
Education
d)
Suffrage
33.
Angelina and Sarah Grimke were sisters from South Carolina and are MOST notable as being 19th century
a)
abolitionists
b)
businesswomen
c)
politicians
d)
suffragettes
34.
How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?
a)
It required all territories to abolish slavery before becoming states
b)
It made the Mississippi River the dividing line between slave states and free states
c)
It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri
d)
It states that all future states would be required to be slave states except for Missouri
35.
California was initially admitted as a "free state" while citizens of the Utah and New Mexico territories were left to decide the issue for themselves. Which of these set this up?
a)
Wilmot Proviso
b)
Compromise of 1850
c)
Missouri Compromise
d)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
36.
Before the Civil War began, which issue played the GREATEST role in increasing tension and conflict between northern and southern state?
a)
northern opposition to the Tariff of 1832
b)
westward expansion and the issue of how to seize land owned by the Native Americans
c)
westward expansion and the issue of whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories
d)
the Indian Removal Act, the "Trail of Tears," and the creation of Indian reservations in Oklahoma.
37.
What did the Dred Scott decision overturn?
a)
Compromise of 1850
b)
Nullification Crisis
c)
Kansas Nebraska Act
d)
Missouri Compromise
38.
Who was the republican candidate for president in 1860?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
John Bell
c)
Stephen Douglas
d)
John Breckenridge
39.
In the 1800's, which of the following required Northerners to help return runaway slaves?
a)
Dred Scott Decision
b)
Compromise of 1820
c)
Fugitive Slave Law
d)
Missouri Compromise
40.
Which of the following literary works of Harriet Beecher Stowe supported the abolitionist movement before the Civil War?
a)
Up From Slavery
b)
Gone with the Wind
c)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
d)
The Jungle
41.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
a)
It abolished the tariff of abominations
b)
It said that Slaves were property not people
c)
It stated that a slave was free upon his master's death
d)
It ended the Fugitive Slave Law
42.
Between 1850 and 1860, which of the following issues was a major area of conflict in U.S. politics?
a)
Debate over tariffs
b)
expansion of slavery
c)
U.S. policy of newtrality
d)
Growth of cities
43.
How did the concept of popular sovereignty decide the future of slavery in a territory?
a)
Voters in neighboring states would decide the slavery issue
b)
Congress would decide the issue of slavery for the state
c)
A territory's voters would choose to be a slave or free state
d)
The president would decide if a territory were to be slave or free.
44.
What serious problem in the U.S. led to the Civil War?
a)
sectionalism
b)
free enterprise
c)
patriatism
d)
consumerism
45.
What was one of the main issues that led to the Civil War?
a)
States Rights
b)
nationalism
c)
taxation without representation
d)
Impressment of sailors
46.
Who was Dred Scott?
a)
an abolitionist newspaper columnist
b)
the leader of a slave uprising
c)
a slave who filed a lawsuit for his freedom
d)
the leader of a pro-slavery secret society
47.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
a)
It abolished the tariff of abominations
b)
It declared that slavery was legal in the territories
c)
It stated that a slave was free upon his master's death
d)
It ended the Fugitive Slave Law
48.
What were the members of anti-slavery groups called?
a)
prohibitionists
b)
Utopians
c)
border ruffians
d)
abolitionists
49.
What was the secret organization that helped slaves to escape to freedom?
a)
Underground Railroad
b)
Seneca Falls Convention
c)
National Road
d)
American Temperence Union
50.
Who was an escaped slave that conducted the Underground Railroad?
a)
Nat Turner
b)
Jphn Brown
c)
William Lloyd Garrison
d)
Harriet Tubman
51.
The Grimke sisters then gained national fame by:
a)
convincing thousands of citizens in South Carolina to become Quakers.
b)
speaking out against the cruelties of slavery.
c)
sharing the methods of the plantation system (commonly used in South Carolina) with Northern farmers
d)
becoming the first females to vote in a national election
52.
Beginning in 1831, William Lloyd Garrison used his newspaper, The Liberator, to attack:
a)
a. organized religion
b)
the institution of slavery
c)
the Women's Rights Movement
d)
the Communist Party
53.
Which Civil War battle allowed the union to gain a strategic advantage by controlling the Mississippi River and splitting the Confederacy in half.
a)
Vicksburg
b)
Antietam
c)
Gettysburg
d)
Fort Sumter
54.
What do the following individuals ALL have in common: William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, Sojourner Truth, Grimke Sisters
a)
Advocates of the women's suffrage movement
b)
Leaders of the temperance movement
c)
Supporters of the abolitionist movement
d)
Developers in the public education movement
55.
Which piece of legislation, passed after the Dred Scott decision, required that all escaped slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters.
a)
Fugitive Slave Law
b)
Compromise of 1877
c)
Black Codes
d)
Jim Crow Laws
56.
Which region of the United States had an economy most dependent on agriculture and slave labor?
a)
The North
b)
The Northwest
c)
The West
d)
The South
57.
Which compromise resulted in the addition of California to the union as a free state?
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Compromise of 1820
c)
Compromise of 1850
d)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
58.
What was the temperance movement?
a)
Kids not going to school
b)
Removal of alcohol
c)
right for women to vote
d)
removal of slavery in the north
59.
What was the seneca falls convention?
a)
a sewing club
b)
A jail for the mental ill
c)
a meeting to discuss women’s rights reform
d)
A meeting place for slaves
60.
This man was an escaped slave who taught himself to read and write. He became an influential player in the abolitionist movement?
a)
Stephen Douglass
b)
Solomon Northup
c)
Frederick Douglass
d)
Harry Tubman
61.
How did participation in the anti-slavery movement affect many women abolitionists?
a)
They accepted their traditional roles as wives
b)
They contributed to other reform movements
c)
They realized that total freedom for slaves was impossible
d)
They became aware of their own need for freedom and discrimination
62.
*Emotional camp meetings*Interest in social reforms*Renewed excitement about religion What was this movement called?
a)
Utopian societies
b)
Transcendentalism
c)
Children's aid society
d)
Second Great Awakening
63.
Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. The main impact of the novel was---
a)
the beginning of the Civil War
b)
an immediate end to slavery in the South
c)
a shift in the North's attitude toward slavery
d)
immediate improvement in the lives of slaves
64.
Which of the following best describes Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
a)
Leader in the abolitionist movement
b)
First woman doctor in the United States
c)
Leader in improving American schools
d)
Organizer of the Women's Rights Convention
65.
How did the Second Great Awakening relate to other reform movements?
a)
It taught more people to read and right
b)
It gave money to reformers
c)
It freed all the slaves
d)
It motivated people to want change
66.
How did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" help the abolitionist movement?
a)
It showed Northerners that slavery was a problem
b)
It created new laws
c)
It taught many slaves how to read
d)
It only hurt the reform movement
67.
What reform movement helped start the women's rights movement?
a)
Education Reform
b)
Abolition
c)
Prison Reform
d)
Labor Reform
68.
While supporting the temperance movement, abolition, and women’s rights, Horace Mann’s greatest achievement was…
a)
Publishing a novel about slavery
b)
The reform of public education
c)
Providing healthcare to the impoverished
d)
Rewriting the constitution
69.
The Underground Railroad was:
a)
A network of secret routes and safe houses starting in the South and ending in the North.
b)
A network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States.
c)
A network of well-known routes and safe houses used by many.
d)
A network of slaves going back and helping other slaves on a regular basis, saving over 2 million.
70.
How did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" help the abolitionist movement?
a)
It showed Northerners that slavery was a problem
b)
It created new laws
c)
It taught many slaves how to read
d)
It only hurt the reform movement
71.
What impact did the developments shown have on American Society?
a)
They established public education for all Americans.
b)
They brought about changes to correct abuses and improve society.
c)
They introduced fairer voting procedures for state officials.
d)
They put an end to discriminatory hiring practices in government.
72.
This cartoon represents the point of view of which reform movement?
a)
Child labor
b)
Temperance
c)
Abolition
d)
Women's Rights
73.
The North Star was the voice of Frederick Douglass. The image above shows an example of the effect of-
a)
public protest on the conduct of the Mexican War.
b)
public opinion on European immigration quotas.
c)
freedom of speech on the abolition of slavery.
d)
freedom of the press on prison reform.
74.
Underlying the prison reform movement was a belief in
a)
Educating prisoners to make them better citizens when they got out
b)
Rehabilitating prisoners rather than just locking them up
c)
Relaxing harsh discipline to make prisons more humane
d)
Bringing criminals back to God
75.
To withdraw from the Union
a)
Containment
b)
Brinkmanship
c)
Nullification
d)
Secede
76.
The Whig party advocated
a)
A stronger federal government
b)
Preserving states' rights
c)
Limiting commercial development
d)
lowering tariffs
77.
Surround the enemy, cut off ability to get supplies, squeeze them into submission
a)
Anaconda Plan
b)
Squeeze and Run plan
c)
Dry them out plan
d)
Bull run plan
78.
Which of the following is NOT a condition of the Compromise of 1850?
a)
California joins as a free state.
b)
Ended selling of slaves in Washington D.C.
c)
Maine was admitted as a free state.
d)
A new Fugitive Slave Act was passed.
79.
What did the Dred Scott decision say?
a)
It considered slaves to be property without rights.
b)
It outlawed slavery in all U.S. states
c)
It required that slavery not be allowed in all new states
d)
It gave slaves all the rights of U.S. citizens
80.
What woman led escaped slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad?
a)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
b)
Clara Barton
c)
Harriet Tubman
d)
Mary Lincoln
81.
Which of the following terms is defined as "when citizens of a territory vote to allow or ban slavery."
a)
popular sovereignty
b)
tariff of abominations
c)
impressment
d)
right of habeus corpus
82.
Which Civil War battle lasted three days in Pennsylvania, ended in a cemetery, and was the turning point of the war?
a)
Bull Run
b)
Gettysburg
c)
Antietam
d)
Vicksburg
83.
After surrounding the town and besieging it for months, The South finally surrenders one day after the loss at Gettysburg. This is the last piece to taking the Mississippi River. This is a decisive Union victory. Grant is promoted to General-in-Chief of the Union Army.
a)
Shiloh
b)
Gettysburg
c)
Vicksburg
d)
Fredericksburg
84.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was said to be the "lady who started the Civil War." Why was her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, so successful?
a)
It used religion to support the continuation of slavery.
b)
It used female characters to support women's suffrage.
c)
It used female characters to support southern secession.
d)
It used religion to support the end of slavery.
85.
Who was the first Republican President?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Millard Fillmore
c)
Franklin Pierce
d)
James Buchanan
86.
Was needed because a slave was suing for his freedom.
a)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
b)
Dred Scott v. Sandford
87.
The Gettysburg Address was given by President Lincoln, dedicated it as a national cemetery.
a)
True
b)
False
88.
The Alabama County that tried to secede from the South
After the state of Alabama seceded from the Union in January of 1861, a small county within the state, known as Winston County, disagreed with the decision and tried to secede from the South.Winston County was populated at the time by what Alabama residents called “Hill people.” The residents got their name from the county’s rugged, hilly terrain.As this rough terrain was unsuitable for plantations and farming, slaves were not used in the county and most residents opposed the slave trade.
The residents instead drew up a document known as the Declaration of Neutrality and threatened that if provoked they would officially secede from Alabama.The county remained neutral throughout the war but faced many difficulties. Tension remained high between the two sides and there was a constant threat of violence.
After the state of Alabama seceded from the Union in January of 1861, a small county within the state, known as Winston County, disagreed with the decision and tried to secede from the South.Winston County was populated at the time by what Alabama residents called “Hill people.” The residents got their name from the county’s rugged, hilly terrain.As this rough terrain was unsuitable for plantations and farming, slaves were not used in the county and most residents opposed the slave trade.
The residents instead drew up a document known as the Declaration of Neutrality and threatened that if provoked they would officially secede from Alabama.The county remained neutral throughout the war but faced many difficulties. Tension remained high between the two sides and there was a constant threat of violence.
a)
Winston County Seceded
b)
Winston county declared it would remain nuetral
c)
Leave the United States
d)
Set new borders
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