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Social Studies Chapter 8 Review

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Slavery was most common _______

a)

in Northern factories

b)

on Southern Plantations

c)

in the Thirteen Colonies

d)

the Louisiana Purchase

2.

As time went on, many people in the North wanted to ________ slavery.

a)

abolish

b)

profit

c)

spread

d)

keep

3.

The growth of ___________ on a massive scale was not possible without the institution of slavery.

a)

cash crops

b)

factories

c)

plantations

d)

slavery

4.

What was the main goal of the abolitionist movement?

a)

to give enslaved people the right to vote

b)

end slavery in the United States

c)

to help Southerners catch enslaved people who had escaped

d)

to allow slavery to spread into new U.S. territories

5.

Which two statements best complete the graphic organizer? (Choose 2)

a)

Slavery should be expanded to new areas.

b)

Slavery brings too many new people into the country.

c)
  • Slavery should be ended, and all enslaved people should be freed.

d)
  • Slavery is a violation of the principle of democracy that all people are created equal.


6.

Which person’s name belongs in the center of the graphic organizer?

a)
  • Harriet Tubman

b)
  • Thomas Jefferson

c)
  • Frederick Douglass

d)
  • Sojourner Truth

7.

Northern and Southern states were ________ in the Senate.

a)

unbalanced

b)

evenly balanced

c)

excluded

d)

included

8.

Northern and Southern states worried _______ would upset the Senate vote.

 

a)

new states

b)

freed enslaved people

c)

old states

d)

enslaved people

9.

What did slave codes do? (Choose 2)

a)
  • They made it illegal for enslaved people to meet together.

b)
  • They made it illegal to force enslaved people to do more work.

c)
  • They made it illegal to teach enslaved people to read and write.

d)
  • They made it illegal for enslaved people to be taken to western states.

10.

In which area was the institution of slavery prohibited by the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

a)
  • Area A

b)
  • Area B

c)
  • Area C

d)
  • Area D

11.

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 made Northerners very angry?

a)
  • a new strict fugitive slave law

b)
  • the end of slave trade in Washington, D.C.

c)
  • the admission of California to the Union as a free state

d)
  • a vote to decide if slavery was allowed in New Mexico

12.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was based on the idea of ________.

a)

popular sovereignty

b)

right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

c)

Westward Expansion

d)

Fugitive Slave Law

13.

The violence grew so bad in Kansas that people called it _______.

a)

Bleeding Kansas

b)

Cut-Throat Kansas

c)

Prison Kansas

d)

Kansas Compromise

14.

Which event directly resulted in the start of the secession of Southern states?

a)
  • Abraham Lincoln was elected president.

b)
  • Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

c)
  • John Brown attempted to raid Harpers Ferry.

d)
  • Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

15.

What are the blue areas on the map called?

a)

territories

b)

border states

c)

slave states

d)

free states

16.

What are the red areas on the map called?

a)

border states

b)

free states

c)

slave states

d)

territories

17.

What are the yellow areas on the map called?

a)

free states

b)

slave states

c)

border states

d)

territories

18.

What are the white areas on the map called?

a)

free states

b)

slave states

c)

border states

d)

territories

19.

Identify the leader the statement describes.

This leader commanded an army.

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Both

20.

Identify the leader the statement describes.

This leader supported states' rights.

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Both

21.

Identify the leader the statement describes.

This leader wanted to preserve the Union.

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Both

22.

Identify the leader the statement describes.

This leader was the president of the Confederacy.

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Both

23.

Identify the leader the statement describes.

This leader was president of the United States.

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Both

24.

Which statements best complete the graphic organizer? (Choose 2)

a)

It allowed formerly enslaved Black men to be soldiers.

b)

It kept formerly enslaved Black men from being soldiers.

c)

Great Britain and France would not support the Confederacy.

d)

Great Britain and France joined Lincoln in his efforts to free enslaved people.

25.

________ is a federal holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.

a)

Juneteenth

b)

Emancipation Day

c)

Fourth of July

d)

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

26.

Slavery ended in Texas when Union troops arrived in Galveston, and ______ issued an order saying enslaved people in Texas were free.

a)

a Union general

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Jefferson Davis

27.

The Lincoln Memorial is located in _________.

a)

Washington, D.C.

b)

New Orleans, LA

c)

Richmond, VA

d)

Baton Rouge, LA

28.

The Lincoln Memorial has _______ that represent the number of states in the Union when Lincoln died.

a)

36 columns

b)

36 lights

c)

36 feet high

d)

36 statues

29.

______ are displayed inside the Lincoln Memorial.

a)

Two of Lincoln's speeches

b)

Two battle maps of Union victories

c)

Two states Lincoln lived in

d)

Two portraits of Lincoln

30.

The Lincoln Memorial is a symbol of ______ for all Americans.

a)

freedom

b)

equality

c)

slavery

d)

bravery

31.

Which statements correctly describe the 13th Amendment? (Choose 2)

a)

It made Juneteenth a national holiday.

b)

It was added to the Constitution after the Civil War.

c)

It banned slavery in the United States and all its territories.

d)

It made it illegal to deny people the right to vote because they had been enslaved.