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A Nation Changes

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did most people in the North view slavery?

a)

They wanted to keep slavery.

b)

They did not believe workers should be enslaved.

c)

They did not have an opinion.

d)

They believed only men should be slaves.

2.

People in the South believed states should be free to choose whether slavery was used for work.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Why were many people in the south opposed to Lincoln's presidency?

a)

They believed he was not a good worker.

b)

He was uneducated and under qualified.

c)

He might end slavery and their way of life would change.

d)

He wanted to keep slavery.

4.

One person controlling another person's life and forcing that person to work against that person's will.

a)

reconstruction

b)

segregation

c)

secede

d)

slavery

5.

The United States war in which Northern states and Southern states fought against one another.

a)

Revolutionary War

b)

Civil War

c)

War of 1812

d)

World War II

6.

The idea that slavery should be made illegal.

a)

abolition

b)

segregation

c)

slavery

d)

reconstruction

7.

The act of keeping people in separate groups, with separate rules, based on their race.

a)

secede

b)

slavery

c)

segregation

d)

Civil War

8.

To separate or withdraw from.

a)

slavery

b)

secede

c)

reconstruction

d)

abolition

9.

The process of rebuilding something that is broken or in disrepair.

a)

reconstruction

b)

segregation

c)

reconvene

d)

abolition

10.

This proclamation freed enslaved people in the South.

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Gettysburg Address

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

Bill of Rights