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Unit 4 Chapter 2 Study Guide

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the relationship between cotton and enslaved labor in the South?

a)

As the supply of cotton grew, the demand for enslaved workers fell.

b)

As the demand for enslaved workers fell, the supply of cotton grew.

c)

As the demand for cotton grew, so did the demand for enslaved workers.

d)

As the supply of enslaved workers grew, so did the supply of cotton.

2.

Who is this person?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

3.

What is he known for? Select the three correct answers.

a)

He was an abolitionist.

b)

He was a newspaper publisher.

c)

He was an author.

d)

He was a presidential candidate.

e)

He was an Underground Railroad conductor.

4.

What is Harriet Tubman doing in this image?

a)

leading Confederate soldiers into a trap

b)

convincing Northerners that slavery is wrong

c)

helping people escape on the Underground Railroad

d)

reuniting families that have been separated by slavery

5.

Eleven states left the Union after Abraham Lincoln was elected president because they thought he was going to _____________.

a)

raise taxes

b)

abolish slavery

c)

sell Southern farmland

d)

stop the spread of slavery

6.

Why did President Lincoln send Union troops into war following the Confederacy’s attack on Fort Sumter?

a)

He thought it was the only way to reunite the country.

b)

He wanted to punish Southerners for leaving the United States.

c)

He wanted to scare Confederate leaders into surrendering.

d)

He knew it was the best chance of ending slavery in America.

7.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

a)

It banned slavery in Union states.

b)

It banned slavery in the United States.

c)

It freed all enslaved people in the United States.

d)

It freed all enslaved people in Confederate states.

8.

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

a)

It reunited the Union.

b)

It freed enslaved Americans.

c)

It officially ended the Civil War.

d)

It banned slavery in the United States.

9.

What document did the Thirteenth Amendment change?

a)

the Declaration of Independence

b)

the Emancipation Proclamation

c)

the Articles of Confederation

d)

the Constitution

e)

the Bill of Rights

10.

What does the Juneteenth holiday celebrate?

a)

the end of the Civil War

b)

the end of slavery in the United States

c)

the end of the French and Indian War

d)

the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment

11.

What, to the American slave, is the Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham . . . Which statement summarizes the claim Douglass makes in the excerpt?

a)

White Americans do not celebrate the Fourth of July.

b)

The Fourth of July should be a day of celebration, not sadness.

c)

A country that enslaves people has no right to celebrate freedom.

d)

The Fourth of July is a fitting way to honor Americans’ struggles for freedom.

12.

unable to be taken away or denied

a)

privilege

b)

unalienable right

c)

rules

d)

right

13.

to end; to stop something completely

a)

finish

b)

done

c)

quit

d)

abolish

14.

a change made to the United States

Constitution

a)

abolitionist

b)

change

c)

constitutional amendment

d)

abolition

15.

to formally withdraw membership

a)

quit

b)

secede

c)

revoke

d)

leave

16.

a war between people who live in the same country

a)

civil war

b)

fight

c)

disagreement

d)

French and Indian War

17.

the act of setting or being set free

a)

abolition

b)

independence

c)

freedom

d)

emancipation