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WorksheetsMississippi History Grade 4 Chapter 6 Test Prep
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
A cash crop is ________________________________.
a crop full of cash
a crop sold for money
a crop of tomatoes
a crop of cotton
By ___________, more than HALF of the people in Mississippi were slaves.
1960
1865
1860
none of these
The cotton season – plant in April and pick in ______ or ________.
February or March
April or May
January or February
June or July
An owner could break up enslaved families during the _____.
selling process
after the Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
none of these
Manufacturing is...
making of homemade goods by hand
making of goods by machine
Abolition is ...
to begin slavery
to end the Civil War
To end slavery
all of the above
States rights are...
The States should only do what the federal government tells them to do.
The states should make their own laws to replace those of the federal government.
The states should make their own laws about everything that has not been granted to congress in the U.S. Constitution.
The states do not have the right to make laws.
Secede means...
to withdraw or formally leave a government.
to quit a ball team
become a part of a government.
to take away
Siege -
surrounding a city for a long period of time in order to give supplies and avoid surrender
surrounding a city for a short period of time to help them stand on their own.
surrounding a city for a long period of time in order to cut off supplies and force the city to surrender.
The South was known as the ____________________________.
Union
Federalists
Mississippians
Confederacy
______________________ was the president of the south.
Robert E Lee
Ulyusses S Grant
Andrew Jackson
Jefferson Davis
The general for the south was ______________________.
Ulysses S Grant
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
The north was known as the ___________.
North
Union
Confederacy
Corinth was an important railroad junction.
false
true
The Civil War was also known as the “____________________________________________."
War between the countries
War between friends
War between the states
none of these
Congress created the ___________________ _____________. They helped start schools and hospitals throughout the South. They gave food and clothing to poor people. They helped former slaves register to vote and find land.
Slaves Bureau
Freedman's Bureau
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Emancipation Proclamation
The North’s president was ____________________.
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
John Pemberton
A Sharecropper is...
one who grows crops on land
one who owns land and lets others grow crops on it
One who grows crops on land and gives a portion of the crops to the owner.
The general for the north was ______________________.
Robert E Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
The _____________ won the Battle of Vicksburg because
The North won the Battle of Vicksburg because they put a Siege on Vicksburg for 47 days.
The North won the Battle of Vicksburg because the South put a siege on Vicksburg.
The South won the Battle of Vicksburg because they survived the siege after 47 days.
none of these
After 47 days under siege, people were sick, tired, dying, and hungry. General ____________________________ surrendered to General Grant.
John C Pemberton
Abraham Lincoln
Donald Trump
The Battle of Vicksburg was important because the Union Army now controlled the entire ______________________ River.
Black Warrior
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
The _____________________ _________________ announced that all enslaved people in the Confederate States would be, “Forever Free.”
Freedom Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
United Proclamation
Ulysses Grant Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was written by ______________ _________________ in September of 1862.
Ulysses S Grant
Donald Trump
Abraham Lincoln
Kim Hurst
Confederate soldiers fired on Ft. Sumter on ________ ____, 1861.
January 7th
April 15th
August 13th
December 25th
Pemberton surrendered to Grant at Vicksburg on _______ __, 1863.
February 14th
July 4th
January 4th
none of these
Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox and the Civil War was over on _________ ___, 1865.
April 15th
July 4th
April 14th
April 9th
Lincoln was assassinated on _______ ___, 1865.
April 15th
April 14th
April 13th
July 4th
Assassinated means
killed due to political views
killed due to gang affiliation
killed by a stranger
none of these
Reconstruction
The period in which the southern states were brought back into the Union after the Civil War.
The period before the Civil War
The period before World War I
What is an Amendment to the constitution?
Something not in the constitution
Something taken out of the constitution
an addition to the constitution. Something that is added.
none of these
The _____ amendment made SLAVERY illegal.
first
third
13th
14th
The _____ amendment gave former slaves the same rights as other people had.
13th
14th
6th
7th
The __________ _____________ were laws that limited the rights of freedmen.
white codes
black codes
red codes
blue codes
Revels and Lynch were two African Americans who served in the state legislature.
true
false
