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Antebellum Era

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In the North, what were farmers mainly producing

a)

Cash Crops

b)

Food Crops

c)

Corn

d)

Indigo

2.

The Northern Economy thrived due to...

a)

Growing Industry

b)

Subsistence farming

c)

foreign help

d)

the growth of abolition

3.

Which region had the majority of the wealth in the US during the Antebellum Period?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

West

4.

What were the first factory laborers in the North?

a)

Ladies of Liberty

b)

Irish Immigrants

c)

Mill Girls

d)

German Immigrants

5.

Who were generally more willing to work for lower wages in the North than the women?

a)

Children

b)

Freedmen

c)

Immigrants

d)

Slaves

6.

Linked the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes

a)

Mississippi River

b)

Erie Channel

c)

Erie Canal

d)

Hudson River

7.

The South's society was primarily

a)

Industrial

b)

Frontier

c)

Agricultural

8.

The West's society was primarily

a)

Industrial

b)

Frontier

c)

Agricultural

9.

Most farmers in the South

a)

Owned plantations

b)

Owned many slaves

c)

Owned small amounts of land

d)

Grew only cash crops

10.

The primary interest of Southern plantation owners was

a)

cash crops

b)

food crops

c)

tobacco

d)

indigo

11.

What was the major cash crop produced during this time

a)

indigo

b)

cotton

c)

tobacco

d)

sugar

12.

What invention sped up the production of cotton?

a)

cotton spinner

b)

"the spinning jenny"

c)

cotton gin

d)

cotton threader

13.

Who invented the cotton gin?

a)

Eli Manning

b)

JP Morgan

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Eli Whitney

14.

True of False: Most people in the South owned slaves

a)

True

b)

False

15.

What was the slave trade route from Africa to the Americas known as:

a)

The Middle Passage

b)

The Columbian Exchange

c)

The Atlantic Trade

d)

The Atlantic Passage

16.

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Mark Twain

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

Walt Whitman

17.

Under the Compromise of 1850, which state was admitted to the Union as a free state?

a)

Utah

b)

California

c)

Texas

d)

New Mexico

18.

Under the Compromise of 1850, which territories would decided with popular sovereignty if slavery was acceptable?

a)

California and Texas

b)

Utah and New Mexico

c)

California and Utah

d)

Texas and New Mexico

19.

Who was this man?

a)

John C. Calhoun

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

John Brown

d)

Henry Clay

20.

What was John Brown known for?

a)

Being violently anti-slavery

b)

Being violently pro-slavery

c)

Peacefully protesting against slavery

d)

Peacefully advocating for slavery

21.

What political party was known to be xenophobic and nativist?

a)

Republican Party

b)

American Party

c)

Democratic Party

d)

Native Party

22.

What was the result of the Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) Case?

a)

Scott wasn't free due to being in a free area, therefore couldn't sue

b)

Scott was free in a free area, having the right to sue

c)

The Missouri Compromise was constitutional

d)

Slavery was illegal

23.

Who won the presidential election of 1860?

a)

Zachary Taylor

b)

James Buchanan

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Stephen A. Douglas