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WorksheetsUnit 9 | Review
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
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.
2.
Which part of the United States relied heavily on industry?
a)
North
b)
South
3.
Which part of the United States relied heavily on agriculture?
a)
North
b)
South
4.
The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use___________________________ to determine whether the territory would be free or slave. This decision applied to much of the land gained from the the U.S. Mexican War.
a)
Three Fifths Compromise
b)
Raiding
c)
Popular sovereignty
d)
Secession
5.
The Dred Scot Decision of 1857 stated that no person with ___________ blood could become a U. S. citizen.
a)
red
b)
African
c)
type O blood
d)
yankee
6.
This law allowed slavery to expand in the West through popular sovereignty.
a)
Missouri Compromise
b)
Fugitive Slave Act
c)
Kansas Nebraska Act
d)
Dred Scott Case
7.
Was a failed attempt to help the slaves rise up against their owners.
a)
Lincoln/Douglas Debates
b)
John Brown's Raid
8.
This woman helped many escape in the Underground Railroad, was a Union spy in the Civil War and had a bounty on her head but was never captured:
a)
Sojourner Truth
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
d)
Susan B. Anthony
9.
This man polarized the country in the 1850's:
a)
John Brown
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Stephen Douglas
d)
John Breckenridge
10.
The Missouri Compromise included:
a)
Missouri entering as a slave state
b)
Maine entering as a free state
c)
A boundary for future territory being slave or free
d)
All of these
11.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a very popular book and was important because it affected how people in the north viewed:
a)
abolition
b)
slavery
c)
factory conditions
d)
their country
12.
Who was an escaped slave that conducted the Underground Railroad?
a)
Nat Turner
b)
John Brown
c)
William Lloyd Garrison
d)
Harriet Tubman
13.
Why was popular sovereignty important in the Civil War?
a)
People living in a new territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature
b)
To vote, you could send a letter of who you wanted to vote for
c)
If you didn’t want to vote in another state you didn’t have to
d)
People that wanted to vote, but were in another state than the one you lived in could vote without signing papers
14.
The breaking of the United States into regions of common economies, populations and values was called...
a)
compromise
b)
secession
c)
states' rights
d)
sectionalism
15.
Which state was nicknamed "bleeding" over the violence that erupted there, following the dispute between it's citizens over the issue of slavery?
a)
Missouri
b)
Kansas
c)
Nebraska
d)
Mississippi
16.
A consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was:
a)
violence between pro-slavery and abolitionist groups
b)
gold was discovered in Nebraska
c)
John Brown led a slave revolt
d)
Dred Scott sued for his freedom
17.
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
a)
Ulysses S. Grant
b)
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
c)
Jefferson Davis
d)
Abraham Lincoln
18.
Who was President of the Union?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
d)
Ulysses S. Grant
19.
Uncle Tom's Cabin caused
a)
the north to legalize slavery
b)
intensified northern anti-slavery feelings
c)
the south to realize the wrongs of slavery
d)
none of the above
20.
What does secede mean?
a)
The belief that your part of the country is the BEST. You put your part of the country's needs in front of what is best for the WHOLE nation.
b)
A warehouse that stores guns and ammunition
c)
A person who is willing to die for their beliefs.
d)
To remove or break away as the Southern states did from the Union.
21.
As cotton production increased, so did ________ in the south.
a)
industrialization
b)
manufacturing
c)
slavery
d)
abolition
22.
Which cash crop of the south most directly relates to the increase of slavery?
a)
Cotton
b)
Rice
c)
Tobacco
23.
A principle of the Constitution that states people have the political authority (power) in the government.
a)
Checks and Balances
b)
Limited Government
c)
Popular Sovereignty
d)
Separation of Powers
24.
What was the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South?
a)
It reduced the need for slaves on plantations.
b)
It made slavery more important to the South.
c)
It helped improve the slaves' work conditions.
d)
It had no significant effect on slaves or slavery.
25.
Who was the first state to leave the Union?
a)
Georgia
b)
South Carolina
c)
Texas
d)
Virginia
26.
Who favored city life and manufactured most of the nations products?
a)
North
b)
South
27.
Who was more agricultural and used plantations to grow products?
a)
North
b)
South
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