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WorksheetsStandard 8-4 Review
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
What type of music provided slaves with a way to convey messages?
African tribal songs
Spirituals
Hymns
Which example would Southerners use to defend slavery as a "positive good"?
Slaves were better cared for than the factory workers in the North.
Slave were allowed to grow their own food.
Slavery freed Africans
How many days a week were slaves required to work?
6
7
8
What were slaves consistently denied?
starting a family
their freedom
owning a pet
The growth in cotton production was largely responsible for an increase in which of the following?
the number of South Carolina factory workers
the number of South Carolina slaves
the amount of Northern immigrants
Why did cotton become a successful crop in South Carolina?
Cotton could be grown only in the Lowcountry tidewater region.
Cotton could only be grown in the Upcountry
Cotton production was made easier with the cotton gin.
How many slaves did the majority of slave owners in South Carolina own?
1 or 2
10 to 20
100 to 200
During the 1800s, where did the majority of South Carolinians live?
on subsistence farms
on tiny farms
on large plantations
Which of the following ways were NOT a common method of protest for a slave in antebellum South Carolina?
work slow down
destroying property
pretending to be sick
going on strike
Why the Slave Codes strengthened following the Denmark Vesey plot?
Many slaves were being smuggled into South Carolina.
There was an increased sense of fear among whites.
There were more slaves coming into the state
What does the term sectionalism mean?
Loyalty to a particular region instead of the nation as a whole.
Loyalty to the nation instead of a particular region.
Loyalty to the church
What was the Southern point of view about the expansion of slavery?
Feared slavery would expand to the North.
Feared that slaves would leave plantations to move west.
Fared that slavery would be outlawed by the federal government.
Why did the Underground Railroad have little success in South Carolina?
The states were too far away from "free states".
The state had too many abolitionists
The state had no slaves
Why were Southern slave holders worried about the Northern states' of the House of Representatives?
Worried that the North could control all judicial power.
Worried because the North could try to outlaw slavery.
Worried the North would get slaves
What impact did the abolitionist movement have in South Carolina?
It made slave owners more determined to keep their slaves.
It made slave owners free their slaves
It ended slavery
Why did many Southerners fear the abolishment of slavery?
They feared free slaves would be given equal political rights.
They believed slave labor was necessary for the Southern economy.
They feared the North invading the South.
Who published this newspaper "The Liberator"?
William Lloyd Garrison
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Tubman
How did the slave population continue to grow after the international slave trade was outlawed in 1808?
Continued slave importation
immigrants and slave births
slave births and smuggling
Which of the following would be an argument used by plantation owners against abolitionist claims?
Slaves could choose their jobs on a plantation.
Slaves were cared for their entire lives.
Slaves were happy.
In response to the abolitionist movement, what did postmasters begin to do throughout the South?
They began to allow anti-slavery newspapers to be distributed.
They began to remove inflammatory materials including anti-slavery newspapers.
They hired slaves to do the work for them
What law was repealed by allowing popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska?
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
What was a result of the Dred Scott Decision?
It counted slaves as 3/5 of a person.
It supported taking slaves anywhere in the United States.
It outlawed slavery
How did John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry further increase sectionalism in the Southern states?
Encouraged John Brown's pro-slavery actions and supported his raid.
Feared abolitionists and freed slaves were a danger to them.
Southerners ignored John Brown
According to John C. Calhoun, what could a state do to nullify a federal law?
A state could call a special convention and nullify a law.
The federal government has less power than the states
The states have more power than the federal government
What was the result of the admission of Maine and Missouri as states in the Missouri Compromise?
The balance of power in the Senate was maintained.
The doctrine of popular sovereignty was applied.
The doctrine of checks and balances was applied.
What was South Carolina's reaction to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
It was viewed as truthful.
It was viewed as untruthful and exaggerated.
The South ignored it.
Which of the following components of the Compromise of 1850 did NOT benefit the North?
The Fugitive Slave Law
California entering the Union as a free state
Slave trade was ended in Washington, D.C.
New Mexico could vote on slavery
What assumptions best explains why South Carolina seceded from the Union?
Lincoln would support westward expansion of slavery.
Lincoln would support slavery .
Lincoln would make slavery illegal.
Which document severed South Carolina's ties with the Union?
Constitution of the Confederate States of America
Ordinance of Nullification
Ordinance of Secession
What strategy greatly depended on using supplies from Europe gained from the sale of cotton?
King Tobacco Diplomacy
King Rice Diplomacy
King Cotton Diplomacy
Why was Fort Sumter fired upon in 1861?
Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
Union soldiers wanted to destroy the arsenal in the fort.
The fort was needed to train soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts regiment.
Which of the following was NOT part of the Union Military Strategy during the Civil War?
Blockade of the Southern ports to cut off supplies from Europe.
Break the Confederacy in two at the Mississippi River.
Destroy the transportation and communication systems.
Fight a defensive war.
Why did General Sherman attack Columbia, South Carolina?
South Carolina was the first to secede, and he wanted them to surrender.
Columbia had lots of food.
Columbia had access to a port.
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Charleston
Fort Sumter
Fort Moultrie
What was the Hunley designed for during the Civil War?
Blockade Running
Helping the Union secretly
Spying
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed all slaves
Freed slaves in rebelling territory
Emancipated the Proclamation line
Who won the Civil War?
The Union
The Confederacy
The States
What did the Emancipation Proclamation allow many slaves to do?
Join the Union army
Join the Confederate army
Become slaves
What did women do during Civil War?
Became spies
Sailed ships
Drummed in battle
What did children do during the Civil War?
Became drummer boys
Ran away
Adopted puppies to train them for battle
Who replaced Abraham Lincoln after his assassination?
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Robert E. Lee
What did many plantation owners do during the Civil War?
Became spies
Ran away
Served as officers
Who piloted a Confederate ship to the Union blockade in the harbor of Charleston and provided the Union with information about Charleston's fortifications
Vicksburg
Robert Smalls
Nat Turner
General Sherman
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Robert Smalls
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Brown
Southerners who remained loyal to the union during the civil war.
Secessionists
Unionist
Cooperationists
