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WorksheetsSLO Review #02
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 13mins
How did the Daughters of Liberty and American colonies respond to the Stamp Act imposed by the British Parliament?
They picketed and marched in front of the courthouse in Charles Town.
They stormed a meeting of Parliament and demanded them to take the tax away.
They went aboard British ships and threw the tea overboard and into the Boston harbor.
They protested by organizing boycotts and "spinningbees" as a way to force the British Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act.
Which of the following is NOT one of the four South Carolinians who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Paul Revere
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Thomas Heyward
Which best describes the role of the Continental Congress?
The Continental Congress regulated trade and currency within the 13 colonies.
The Continental Congress created laws to separate the church from the government.
The Continental Congress acted as the national government during the American Revolution.
The Continental Congress worked with the Sons of Liberty to plan boycotts and protest against Great Britain.
What were two of the issues on which the Upcountry and the Lowcountry disagreed?
Representation in the General Assembly and how to grow cotton.
Location of the state capital and which type of cotton to grow.
The border between the Upcountry and how to grow cotton.
Location of the state capital and representation in the General Assembly.
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
The statement above introduces the reasons for...
American independence from Britain
Soldiers to be living in colonists' homes
Natural laws controlling the universe
Protests against British taxes and laws
Why was the invention of the cotton gin so important to the state of South Carolina?
It made cotton a viable cash crop and increased the need for slavery in the Upcountry.
They no longer needed slaves to plant cotton.
They could remove the seeds from the coton plant faster.
They could sell their cotton for less money.
"I favor state control of trade so we have a decision on our own trade. Since slave and agriculture are some of the main economic staples, we don't want taxes on our agricultural exports or a ban on slavery!"
Which group would have supported this statement about the Commerce Compromise?
Northern States
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
Southern States
Why did South Carolina want slaves to be counted in the "Great Compromise"?
South Carolina was a slave holding state, so counting slaves would give them more voice in government to ensure that slavery would not be abolished.
South Carolina wanted their slaves to be counted so that they could divide them up equally among the rest of the states.
South Carolina did not want their slaves to be counted because they were afraid that slaves would receive rights.
South Carolina did not want their slaves to be counted because the government was trying to get them to stop using slavery in the south.
In order to diffuse the trouble between the states arguing over weather or not to allow slavery in the new territories, what compromise drew the 36"30 line to separate slavery and non-slavery states?
3/5th Compromise
Kentucky-Nebraska Act
Great Compromise
Missouri Compromise
South Carolinian Charles C. Pinckney's statement, "No, no, not a sixpence" refers to the ...
XYZ Affair
Revenue Act
Louisiana Purchase
British Impressment Policies
Which statement offers the BEST explanation for why General Sherman was more destructive on his march through South Carolina than he was in North Carolina?
The Union was seeking revenge for the Battle of Fort Sumter.
General Sherman failed to supervise his troops adequately while in South Carolina.
South Carolina was viewed as a prime target because they were the first date to secede from the Union.
General Sherman was seeking revenge for Union soldiers killed in South Carolina's prisoner of war camps.
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime... shall exist" is an excerpt from which of the Civil War Amendments?
12th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Which amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision and was designed to protect political rights and freedoms of all citizens?
12th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
From 1800 to 1860, cotton production rose from thousands of bales of cotton to almost four million bales. One probably efect, or result, of this increased production was...
an increase in the number of labor unions provided to keep planters safe.
a decrease in the use of slave labor because cotton gin made the task easier.
a sharp increase in profits from cotton crops because fewer slaves were needed.
an increase in the number of enslaved people after the invention of the cotton gin.
Which statement is TRUE regarding the lives of women in South Carolina during the Civil War?
Thousands of women were captured by the Union army and were sent to work in northern factories.
Towards the end of the way, women were required to serve in the military to make up for the army's shortage of soldiers.
Because women began to enter the workforce in South Carolina's textile mills, the General Assembly was forced to give them the right to vote in 1863.
As men went away to fight, women were left behind to tend to farms and plantations, where their lives were made especially difficult by shortages of supplies and food.
All of the following are considered successes of Reconstruction EXCEPT...
Education for all children.
All men could vote over the age of 21.
The Constitution of 1868 gave more rights to women.
Sharecropping gave citizens a reliable means of income.
Fort Sumer is MOST significant for being:
the location of the end of the Civil War.
destroyed by the Union when taking Port Royal.
the target of General Sherman's March to the Sea.
where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
