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Chapter 12 Quiz

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Some abolitionists did this to end slavery.

a)

printed antislavery newspapers and spoke against slavery

b)

used the Underground Railroad

c)

sent enslaved people food

d)

formed their own towns

2.

What is a Civil War?

a)

The unfair treatment of particular groups

b)

another name for the United States

c)

when part of a country breaks away from the rest

d)

a war between two groups of regions within a nation

3.

What did the Northern states want?

a)

to force the slae states to leave the Union

b)

to make slavery illegal

c)

to send enslaved people back to Africa

d)

to leave the Union to end slavery

4.

This is when one part of the country breaks away from the rest.

a)

Civll War

b)

discrimination

c)

popular sovereignty

d)

secession

5.

What is a tariff?

a)

loyalty to one part of the country

b)

a tax on imported goods

c)

the idea that states, not the federal government, should make decisions about matters that affect them.

d)

the unfair treatment of a particular group

6.

Why did Southern states leave the Union?

a)

because they wanted more tariffs

b)

because Douglas won the election

c)

to protect their ownership of slaves

d)

because they voted for Lincoln

7.

What was the Underground Railroad?

a)

a railroad station with many trains

b)

a place that allowed slavery

c)

a series of escape routes and hiding places to bring people out of slavery.

d)

a place under the main ground

8.

What is another name for the right for people to make political decisions for themselves?

a)

states' rights

b)

popular sovereignty

c)

sectionalism

d)

discrimination

9.

What caused an increase in sectionalism?

a)

tariffs and slavery

b)

competition between farmers in the North and South

c)

the removal of tariffs on manufactured goods

d)

the price of cotton and manufactured goods

10.

The Civil War began when this happened.

a)

abolitionists formed the Republican party

b)

Lincoln was elected President

c)

South Carolina voted to leave the Union

d)

Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter.

11.

What did the Fugitive Slave Law order people to do?

a)

read Uncle Tom's Cabin

b)

return runaways to the North

c)

return slaves to slavery

d)

help slaves run away

12.

Why was slavery important to Southerners?

a)

Southern farmers wanted more enslaved people to produce cotton.

b)

Businesses wanted enslaved people to build factories.

c)

Factory owners wanted enslaved people to build machines.

d)

The government wanted enslaved people to produce cotton.

13.

What is discrimination?

a)

loyalty to one part of the country

b)

the unfair treatment of a group

c)

when part of a country breaks away from the rest

d)

another name for the United States

14.

Which states did not allow slavery?

a)

All states

b)

free states

c)

slave states

d)

states with popular sovereignty

15.

What was the Union?

a)

another name for the North

b)

another name for the South

c)

another name for Texas

d)

another name for the United States

16.

What did the states that separated from the Union call themselves?

a)

Regulars

b)

Unioners

c)

Heroes

d)

Confederacy

17.

Slave states were

a)

all states that allowed popular sovereignty

b)

states that allowed slavery

c)

states that had freed slaves

d)

states that did not allow slavery

18.

What is sectionalism?

a)

loyalty to one part of the country

b)

the unfair treatment of particular groups

c)

another name for the United States

d)

when part of a country breaks away from the rest

19.

What is an abolitionist?

a)

someone who believed slavery was necessary

b)

someone who owned a plantation and had many slaves

c)

someone who treats others unfairly

d)

someone who joined the movement to end slavery

20.

Tariffs were good for the North. Why?

a)

Tariffs made imported goods more expensive than local goods.

b)

Tariffs made local goods more expensive than imported goods.

c)

Tariffs made imported goods easier to buy in the North

d)

Tariffs were lower in the North than in the South.

21.

Which abolitionists were once enslaved?

a)

Sarah and Angelina Grimke

b)

Harriet Tubman and William Lloyd Garrison

c)

Sojourner Truth and Angelina Grimke

d)

Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth

22.

Which of the following statements is true about Abraham Lincoln?

a)

He was from a rich family.

b)

He won the Senate election against Stephan Douglas.

c)

He grew up on a farm and did not have much time to go to school.

d)

He was a Democrat.

23.

Why did John Brown attack the Army post?

a)

to arm himself against slaves

b)

to start a slave rebellion

c)

to protect his family from slave owners

d)

to arm himself from abolitionists

24.

Where did the Underground Railroad go?

a)

to Europe

b)

to Africa

c)

to the North and Canada, or to Mexico, Florida, or the Caribbean

d)

to the Southern states

25.

What is meant by states' rights?

a)

the idea that the states, not the federal government, should make decisions about matters that affect them.

b)

loyalty to one part of the country

c)

a tax on imported goods

d)

the right for the state to separate from the Union