Worksheets5th Grade Social Studies Chapter 9 Test
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The Northern States, during the Civil War, were called the ___________________________________.
a)
Union
b)
Confederacy
c)
Sharecropping
d)
Amendments
2.
The Southern States, during the Civil War, were called the ___________________________________.
a)
Union
b)
Confederacy
c)
Amendment
d)
Proclamations
3.
___________________________ is the bringing of charges of wrongdoing against an elected official by the House of Representatives.
a)
Compromise
b)
Blockade
c)
Impeachment
d)
Secession
4.
A _____________________________________ is an agreement that is reached because both sides have given up some demands.
a)
Compromise
b)
Confederacy
c)
Sharecropping
d)
Enlist
5.
A _______________________________ is a barrier of troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in and out of an area.
a)
Blockade
b)
Assassinate
c)
Amendment
d)
Siege
6.
_________________ is a method of warfare that destroys civilian as well as military targets to force surrender.
a)
Compromise
b)
Confederacy
c)
States' rights
d)
Total war
7.
An _______________________ is a change or improvement for something.
a)
Union
b)
Confederacy
c)
Amendment
d)
Impeachment
8.
_________________________ were a group of laws in the late 1800s that denied African American men the right to vote, kept African Americans from owning guns or taking certain types of jobs.
a)
Comprosmise
b)
Total War
c)
Black codes
d)
Carpetbagger
9.
To murder someone famous or powerful, usually for political reasons is to _______________ them.
a)
Blockade
b)
Impeachment
c)
Segregation
d)
Assassinate
10.
__________________________ is a system in which someone who owns land lets someone else “rent” the land to farm it.
a)
Union
b)
Impeachment
c)
Sharecropping
d)
Secession
11.
A military blockade and extended attack designed to make a city or other location surrender is called a _________________________.
a)
Siege
b)
Abolitionist
c)
Enlist
d)
Plantation
12.
A __________________________ was a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to start businesses and make money.
a)
States' rights
b)
Secession
c)
Compromise
d)
Carpetbagger
13.
A _______________is an official announcement.
a)
Proclamation
b)
Emancipation
c)
Carpetbagger
d)
Enlists
14.
______________________ are the right of each U.S. state to make its own local laws.
a)
Plantations
b)
States' rights
c)
Enlists
d)
Confederacy
15.
The act of separating a state from the nation is called _____________________.
a)
Secession
b)
Enlisting
c)
Segregating
d)
Union
16.
____________________________is the freeing of a group from slavery.
a)
Siege
b)
Emancipation
c)
Segregation
d)
Black codes
17.
An ____________________________ is a person who works to end or get rid of something, especially slavery.
a)
States' rights
b)
Abolitionist
c)
Carpetbagger
d)
Impeachment
18.
______________________ is the division of groups of people, usually by race.
a)
Siege
b)
Enlist
c)
Segregation
d)
Compromise
19.
To ________________ means to enter the armed forces.
a)
Plantation
b)
Abolitionist
c)
Enlist
d)
Siege
20.
A large farm, especially in the southern United States, that usually grows one type of crop is called a ________________________.
a)
Plantation
b)
States' rights
c)
Secession
d)
Proclamation
21.
Which of the following BEST describes the South’s strategy when the Civil War began?
a)
To persuade enslaved people to become soldiers
b)
To get money and soldiers from France
c)
To seize Northern ports to prevent trade
d)
To defend the Confederacy until the North gave up.
22.
What new war technology was introduced during the Civil War?
a)
Rockets
b)
Ironclad ships
c)
Tanks
d)
Airplanes
23.
What new technology changed the way people on the home front understood the Civil War?
a)
Ironclad ships
b)
Submarines
c)
Photography
d)
The telegraph
24.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
a)
A Confederate spy nicknamed “La Belle Rebelle”
b)
A formerly enslaved African American woman who worked for abolition before the war and women's rights after the war.
c)
A volunteer nurse during the Civil War who later founded the American Red Cross.
d)
The wife of Union General Ulysses S. Grant
25.
Which military leader used the strategy of “total war?”
a)
Ulysses S. Grant
b)
Stonewall Jackson
c)
Robert E. Lee
d)
William T. Sherman
26.
What is Juneteenth?
a)
The 10th of June.
b)
The day in which the Emancipation Proclamation was read in the last state, Texas.
c)
The day which Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation
d)
It does not have a meaning.
27.
What was the Underground Railroad?
a)
A system in which people could escape slavery.
b)
A subway
c)
A train that ran underground moving people secretly.
d)
A weapon developed by the North.
28.
What was Reconstruction?
a)
The rebuilding of the White House after Abraham Lincoln's death
b)
The putting of iron sides on wooden ships
c)
The rebuilding of Native American villages destroyed by war
d)
The rebuilding for the South after the Civil War
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