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Unit 8 Vocab Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government is best defined as...

a)

Reconstruction

b)

States Rights

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

2.

Focus on the interests of one’s region rather than on the nation as a whole is defined as which of the following

a)

Sectionalism

b)

States Rights

c)

Civil War

d)

Tariff

3.

Secede is best defined as...

a)

civilian world during a war

b)

a nation at war with itself

c)

the closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out

d)

to withdraw from something, such as a nation

4.

A tax on imported goods is which of the following

a)

Tariff

b)

Abolitionist

c)

Reconstruction

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

5.

A person who wanted to end slavery would be known as a..

a)

Sharecropper

b)

Unionist

c)

Abolitionist

d)

Confederate

6.

The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out is a...

a)

Siege

b)

Blockade

c)

Tariff

d)

Civil War

7.

Reconstruction is defined as

a)

A nation at war with itself

b)

A tax on imported goods

c)

The idea that states have the right to limit the power of the federal government

d)

the federal government’s plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War

8.

A nation at war with itself is...

a)

Silver War

b)

Civil War

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Secede

9.

After the war, former slaves took jobs back on cotton farms as...

a)

Abolitionists

b)

Sharecroppers

c)

Unionists

d)

Tariffs

10.

Homefront is defined as

a)

The front lines of the war

b)

The home base for the soldiers

c)

Civilian life during a war

d)

A tax on imported goods

11.

A person who supported the Union during the Civil War, usually who lived in the South

a)

Unionist

b)

Abolitionist

c)

Sharecropper

d)

Sectionalist

12.

Emancipation Proclamation did which of the following

a)

Freed all the slaves in the North

b)

Freed the slaves in the South

c)

Declared War on the South

d)

Freed the slaves in the entire U.S.

13.

If I were alive during the time of the Civil War I would be a ________ because I think slavery should be outlawed

a)

Unionist

b)

Abolitionist

c)

Sharecropper

d)

Blockade

14.

States Rights led people to believe that states had the ability to ________ when the federal government made laws that they thought threatened their way of life

a)

Form a blockade

b)

Secede from the U.S.

c)

Put a Tariff on goods

d)

Sharecrop

15.

The Emancipation Proclamation was created by who?

a)

George Washington

b)

Sam Houston

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Lorenzo de Zavala