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WorksheetsGrowth and the Civil War
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 17mins
What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief it was America's "clear duty" to expand the nation from coast to coast.
Part of the economy in which machines are used to do the work.
The period of time when the south was rebuilt.
Someone who came to America from another country.
The United States and (a) fought a war for land in the southwest.
An _________ is someone who comes to live in a new land.
Industry
Immigrant
Hot Dogs
Telegraph
Who already lived in the West as America was expanding west?
__________ is part of the economy in which machines are used to do the work.
Product
Tractors
Machines
Industry
The period of change that created new industries was called...
Star Wars
The American Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
The Civil War
What was the benefit of new railroads?
let people travel faster and easier
helped people communicate
helped farmers work instead of using their hands or animal power
What invention helped people communicate or keep in touch?
(a)
What helped people go West?
cars
boats
better roads and the erie canal
rocketships
What is an abolitionist?
Someone who wants to end slavery.
A singer
Someone who wants to keep slavery
Who was elected as president before the Civil War who made the southerners mad?
George Washington
Mr. Masterson
Abraham Lincoln
Zachary Taylor
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the North?
Depended on slaves to work in the fields.
More people
More factories
Did not want slavery
Which does NOT describe the south?
farming region
believed in free labor
believed in states' rights
Lincoln wanted to stop the spread of slavery, and this led to war.
True
False
To secede means to...
to join a group
to try
to hurt
to break away from
The Civil War was between the Union (the northern states) and the _____________ (the southern states)
Confederate States of America
Abraham Lincoln
(a) was the period of time when the South was rebuilt
The 13th amendment made slavery against the law
True
False
What amendment gave equal rights to former slaves?
15th
14th
13th
12th
The 15th Amendment gave African American men...
made slavery against the law
the right to vote
equal pay
Southern states passed ___ ____ ____ that kept African Americans and white people apart.
Jim Crow Laws
the right to vote
the right to bear arms
(a) is the separation of African Americans and white people
American Indians were forced to move to (a) which are areas set aside for American Indians.
