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Mississippi History Grade 4 Chapter 6 Test Prep

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A cash crop is ________________________________.

a)

a crop full of cash

b)

a crop sold for money

c)

a crop of tomatoes

d)

a crop of cotton

2.

By ___________, more than HALF of the people in Mississippi were slaves.

a)

1960

b)

1865

c)

1860

d)

none of these

3.

The cotton season – plant in April and pick in ______ or ________.

a)

February or March

b)

April or May

c)

January or February

d)

June or July

4.

An owner could break up enslaved families during the _____.

a)

selling process

b)

after the Civil War

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

none of these

5.

Manufacturing is...

a)

making of homemade goods by hand

b)

making of goods by machine

6.

Abolition is ...

a)

to begin slavery

b)

to end the Civil War

c)

To end slavery

d)

all of the above

7.

States rights are...

a)

The States should only do what the federal government tells them to do.

b)

The states should make their own laws to replace those of the federal government.

c)

The states should make their own laws about everything that has not been granted to congress in the U.S. Constitution.

d)

The states do not have the right to make laws.

8.

Secede means...

a)

to withdraw or formally leave a government.

b)

to quit a ball team

c)

become a part of a government.

d)

to take away

9.

Siege -

a)

surrounding a city for a long period of time in order to give supplies and avoid surrender

b)

surrounding a city for a short period of time to help them stand on their own.

c)

surrounding a city for a long period of time in order to cut off supplies and force the city to surrender.

10.

The South was known as the ____________________________.

a)

Union

b)

Federalists

c)

Mississippians

d)

Confederacy

11.

______________________ was the president of the south.

a)

Robert E Lee

b)

Ulyusses S Grant

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

Jefferson Davis

12.

The general for the south was ______________________.

a)

Ulysses S Grant

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Abraham Lincoln

13.

The north was known as the ___________.

a)

North

b)

Union

c)

Confederacy

14.

Corinth was an important railroad junction.

a)

false

b)

true

15.

The Civil War was also known as the “____________________________________________."

a)

War between the countries

b)

War between friends

c)

War between the states

d)

none of these

16.

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.

a)

Slaves Bureau

b)

Freedman's Bureau

c)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

17.

The North’s president was ____________________.

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Robert E. Lee

d)

John Pemberton

18.

A Sharecropper is...

a)

one who grows crops on land

b)

one who owns land and lets others grow crops on it

c)

One who grows crops on land and gives a portion of the crops to the owner.

19.

The general for the north was ______________________.

a)

Robert E Lee

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Abraham Lincoln

20.

The _____________ won the Battle of Vicksburg because

a)

The North won the Battle of Vicksburg because they put a Siege on Vicksburg for 47 days.

b)

The North won the Battle of Vicksburg because the South put a siege on Vicksburg.

c)

The South won the Battle of Vicksburg because they survived the siege after 47 days.

d)

none of these

21.

After 47 days under siege, people were sick, tired, dying, and hungry. General ____________________________ surrendered to General Grant.

a)

John C Pemberton

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Donald Trump

22.

The Battle of Vicksburg was important because the Union Army now controlled the entire ______________________ River.

a)

Black Warrior

b)

Mississippi

c)

Alabama

d)

Tennessee

23.

The _____________________ _________________ announced that all enslaved people in the Confederate States would be, “Forever Free.”

a)

Freedom Proclamation

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

United Proclamation

d)

Ulysses Grant Proclamation

24.

The Emancipation Proclamation was written by ______________ _________________ in September of 1862.

a)

Ulysses S Grant

b)

Donald Trump

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Kim Hurst

25.

Confederate soldiers fired on Ft. Sumter on ________ ____, 1861.

a)

January 7th

b)

April 15th

c)

August 13th

d)

December 25th

26.

Pemberton surrendered to Grant at Vicksburg on _______ __, 1863.

a)

February 14th

b)

July 4th

c)

January 4th

d)

none of these

27.

Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox and the Civil War was over on _________ ___, 1865.

a)

April 15th

b)

July 4th

c)

April 14th

d)

April 9th

28.

Lincoln was assassinated on _______ ___, 1865.

a)

April 15th

b)

April 14th

c)

April 13th

d)

July 4th

29.

Assassinated means

a)

killed due to political views

b)

killed due to gang affiliation

c)

killed by a stranger

d)

none of these

30.

Reconstruction

a)

The period in which the southern states were brought back into the Union after the Civil War.

b)

The period before the Civil War

c)

The period before World War I

31.

What is an Amendment to the constitution?

a)

Something not in the constitution

b)

Something taken out of the constitution

c)

an addition to the constitution. Something that is added.

d)

none of these

32.

The _____ amendment made SLAVERY illegal.

a)

first

b)

third

c)

13th

d)

14th

33.

The _____ amendment gave former slaves the same rights as other people had.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

6th

d)

7th

34.

The __________ _____________ were laws that limited the rights of freedmen.

a)

white codes

b)

black codes

c)

red codes

d)

blue codes

35.

Revels and Lynch were two African Americans who served in the state legislature.

a)

true

b)

false