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Standard 8-4 Review

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of music provided slaves with a way to convey messages?

a)

African tribal songs

b)

Spirituals

c)

Hymns

2.

Which example would Southerners use to defend slavery as a "positive good"?

a)

Slaves were better cared for than the factory workers in the North.

b)

Slave were allowed to grow their own food.

c)

Slavery freed Africans

3.

How many days a week were slaves required to work?

a)

6

b)

7

c)

8

4.

What were slaves consistently denied?

a)

starting a family

b)

their freedom

c)

owning a pet

5.

The growth in cotton production was largely responsible for an increase in which of the following?

a)

the number of South Carolina factory workers

b)

the number of South Carolina slaves

c)

the amount of Northern immigrants

6.

Why did cotton become a successful crop in South Carolina?

a)

Cotton could be grown only in the Lowcountry tidewater region.

b)

Cotton could only be grown in the Upcountry

c)

Cotton production was made easier with the cotton gin.

7.

How many slaves did the majority of slave owners in South Carolina own?

a)

1 or 2

b)

10 to 20

c)

100 to 200

8.

During the 1800s, where did the majority of South Carolinians live?

a)

on subsistence farms

b)

on tiny farms

c)

on large plantations

9.

Which of the following ways were NOT a common method of protest for a slave in antebellum South Carolina?

a)

work slow down

b)

destroying property

c)

pretending to be sick

d)

going on strike

10.

Why the Slave Codes strengthened following the Denmark Vesey plot?

a)

Many slaves were being smuggled into South Carolina.

b)

There was an increased sense of fear among whites.

c)

There were more slaves coming into the state

11.

What does the term sectionalism mean?

a)

Loyalty to a particular region instead of the nation as a whole.

b)

Loyalty to the nation instead of a particular region.

c)

Loyalty to the church

12.

What was the Southern point of view about the expansion of slavery?

a)

Feared slavery would expand to the North.

b)

Feared that slaves would leave plantations to move west.

c)

Fared that slavery would be outlawed by the federal government.

13.

Why did the Underground Railroad have little success in South Carolina?

a)

The states were too far away from "free states".

b)

The state had too many abolitionists

c)

The state had no slaves

14.

Why were Southern slave holders worried about the Northern states' of the House of Representatives?

a)

Worried that the North could control all judicial power.

b)

Worried because the North could try to outlaw slavery.

c)

Worried the North would get slaves

15.

What impact did the abolitionist movement have in South Carolina?

a)

It made slave owners more determined to keep their slaves.

b)

It made slave owners free their slaves

c)

It ended slavery

16.

Why did many Southerners fear the abolishment of slavery?

a)

They feared free slaves would be given equal political rights.

b)

They believed slave labor was necessary for the Southern economy.

c)

They feared the North invading the South.

17.

Who published this newspaper "The Liberator"?

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Harriet Tubman

18.

How did the slave population continue to grow after the international slave trade was outlawed in 1808?

a)

Continued slave importation

b)

immigrants and slave births

c)

slave births and smuggling

19.

Which of the following would be an argument used by plantation owners against abolitionist claims?

a)

Slaves could choose their jobs on a plantation.

b)

Slaves were cared for their entire lives.

c)

Slaves were happy.

20.

In response to the abolitionist movement, what did postmasters begin to do throughout the South?

a)

They began to allow anti-slavery newspapers to be distributed.

b)

They began to remove inflammatory materials including anti-slavery newspapers.

c)

They hired slaves to do the work for them

21.

What law was repealed by allowing popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska?

a)

Missouri Compromise

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Compromise of 1850

22.

What was a result of the Dred Scott Decision?

a)

It counted slaves as 3/5 of a person.

b)

It supported taking slaves anywhere in the United States.

c)

It outlawed slavery

23.

How did John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry further increase sectionalism in the Southern states?

a)

Encouraged John Brown's pro-slavery actions and supported his raid.

b)

Feared abolitionists and freed slaves were a danger to them.

c)

Southerners ignored John Brown

24.

According to John C. Calhoun, what could a state do to nullify a federal law?

a)

A state could call a special convention and nullify a law.

b)

The federal government has less power than the states

c)

The states have more power than the federal government

25.

What was the result of the admission of Maine and Missouri as states in the Missouri Compromise?

a)

The balance of power in the Senate was maintained.

b)

The doctrine of popular sovereignty was applied.

c)

The doctrine of checks and balances was applied.

26.

What was South Carolina's reaction to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

It was viewed as truthful.

b)

It was viewed as untruthful and exaggerated.

c)

The South ignored it.

27.

Which of the following components of the Compromise of 1850 did NOT benefit the North?

a)

The Fugitive Slave Law

b)

California entering the Union as a free state

c)

Slave trade was ended in Washington, D.C.

d)

New Mexico could vote on slavery

28.

What assumptions best explains why South Carolina seceded from the Union?

a)

Lincoln would support westward expansion of slavery.

b)

Lincoln would support slavery .

c)

Lincoln would make slavery illegal.

29.

Which document severed South Carolina's ties with the Union?

a)

Constitution of the Confederate States of America

b)

Ordinance of Nullification

c)

Ordinance of Secession

30.

What strategy greatly depended on using supplies from Europe gained from the sale of cotton?

a)

King Tobacco Diplomacy

b)

King Rice Diplomacy

c)

King Cotton Diplomacy

31.

Why was Fort Sumter fired upon in 1861?

a)

Lincoln was elected president in 1860.

b)

Union soldiers wanted to destroy the arsenal in the fort.

c)

The fort was needed to train soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts regiment.

32.

Which of the following was NOT part of the Union Military Strategy during the Civil War?

a)

Blockade of the Southern ports to cut off supplies from Europe.

b)

Break the Confederacy in two at the Mississippi River.

c)

Destroy the transportation and communication systems.

d)

Fight a defensive war.

33.

Why did General Sherman attack Columbia, South Carolina?

a)

South Carolina was the first to secede, and he wanted them to surrender.

b)

Columbia had lots of food.

c)

Columbia had access to a port.

34.

What was the first battle of the Civil War?

a)

Fort Charleston

b)

Fort Sumter

c)

Fort Moultrie

35.

What was the Hunley designed for during the Civil War?

a)

Blockade Running

b)

Helping the Union secretly

c)

Spying

36.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

a)

Freed all slaves

b)

Freed slaves in rebelling territory

c)

Emancipated the Proclamation line

37.

Who won the Civil War?

a)

The Union

b)

The Confederacy

c)

The States

38.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation allow many slaves to do?

a)

Join the Union army

b)

Join the Confederate army

c)

Become slaves

39.

What did women do during Civil War?

a)

Became spies

b)

Sailed ships

c)

Drummed in battle

40.

What did children do during the Civil War?

a)

Became drummer boys

b)

Ran away

c)

Adopted puppies to train them for battle

41.

Who replaced Abraham Lincoln after his assassination?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Robert E. Lee

42.

What did many plantation owners do during the Civil War?

a)

Became spies

b)

Ran away

c)

Served as officers

43.

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

a)

Robert Smalls

b)

Nat Turner

c)

General Sherman

44.

Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

a)

Robert Smalls

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

John Brown

45.

Southerners who remained loyal to the union during the civil war.

a)

Secessionists

b)

Unionist

c)

Cooperationists