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WorksheetsUSI.9A-C Test Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The people of the North and South found it difficult to agree on political and social issues because of their
government differences
cultural differences
climate differences
racial differences
One major issue that divided the North and the South was
slavery
expansion
prohibition
suffrage
The North was mainly a (an)
agricultural region
bitcoin region
slavery region
manufacturing region
The South was mainly a (an)
agricultural region
industrial region
trader region
manufacturing region
The North favored tariffs because they
protected farmers
protected factory owners and workers
helped cotton traders
helped government officials
In the North most people
worked on farms
fished in the ocean
held jobs
worked at home
Southerners opposed tariffs because they felt they would lead to
higher prices for the cotton they sold
higher prices for manufactured goods they bought
more immigration from Europe
an increase in cotton purchases from England
The major Constitutional conflict between the North and the South was
states' rights versus a strong central government
voting rights and property rights
suffrage and abolition
property rights
Southerners believed they had the power to
declare any national law illegal
make laws for the entire nation
declare war on other countries
choose not to pay taxes
The Congress tried to resolve the differences between the North and the South in all of the following ways EXCEPT
approval of the Compromise of 1850
election of Abraham Lincoln
passage of the Missouri Compromise
agreement of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who held the view that the federal government's power was greater than the power of state governments?
abolitionists
suffragists
northerners
southerners
Because the South feared Northern control of Congress, southerners began to
free their slaves
boycott Northern goods
move further west
proclaim states' rights
In the Missouri Compromise what state entered the Union as a slave state?
Maine
California
Missouri
Kansas
In the Compromise of 1850 what state entered the Union as a free state?
Maine
California
Missouri
Kansas
In the Compromise of 1850 the southwest territories
became free states
became slave states
decided on the slavery issue through voting
were to remain open to slavery for 20 years
In the Kansas-Nebraska Act it was stated that the two states would
become free states immediately after passage of the act
become slave states
decide on the slavery issue through voting
one be free and the other slave
The election of Lincoln as President almost immediately led to the
firing on Fort Sumter
Battle of Manassas
Emancipation Proclamation
secession of seven Southern states
The first shots of the Civil War were fired
on Fort Sumter
at Manassas
at Gettysburg
on Fort Appomattox
Which of the following statements best describes the view of Northerners at the beginning of the war?
The Union is no more.
The Union cannot be divided.
The states are free to leave the Union
The states can dissolve the Union
Where did the Civil War begin?
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
South Carolina
"Popular Sovereignty" was a slogan often used in new territories, what did it mean?
Federal government should end slavery now.
New territories should be free states.
New territories should be slave states.
People should be able to decide the slavery issue.
What was the Capital city of the Union states
Charleston
Philadelphia
Washington D.C.
Richmond
The states that seceded from the Union belonged to what country?
Confederate States of America
United States of America
Canada
Republic of Texas
What was the Capital of the Confederacy?
Charleston
Philadelphia
Washington D.C.
Richmond
Which of the following groups contains only Border States?
Arkansas, Mississippi, New Hampshire
Delaware, Maryland, Missouri
Illinois, Maine, Ohio
New Jersey, Louisiana, California
