Unit 6 Social Studies Test
  • 1. In the 1800s what did the Southern economy depend on the most?
A) tourists
B) tobacco
C) industry
D) cotton
  • 2. Under the Missouri Compromise, what balanced Missouri's admission as a slave state?
A) Georgia changed from a slave to free state.
B) Arkansas as a free state
C) Free states got extra votes
D) Maine as a free state
  • 3. People who traveled on the Underground Railroad were called:
A) conductors
B) passengers
C) operators
D) sailors
  • 4. The Republican Party was formed to:
A) support slavery
B) pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act
C) oppose the spread of slavery
D) build a transcontinental railroad
  • 5. What was important about the Dred Scott decision?
A) It closed the underground railroad.
B) Meant that if slaves were taken to free states, they were still slaves.
C) It abolished slavery.
D) It imposed big fines on slave owners.
  • 6. What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
A) Bull Run
B) Anaconda
C) Shiloh
D) Vicksburg
  • 7. Which was an advantage of the Confederacy?
A) Southerners were more skilled at hunting, shooting, and riding.
B) South had a larger population.
C) South had more railroads.
D) Southern factories were larger than in the north.
  • 8. Which of the following was new technology in the Civil War?
A) bayonets
B) muskets
C) ironclad battle ships
D) mustard gas
  • 9. Had a strong military tradition:
A) Mrs. Marcus
B) north
C) south
  • 10. Had a largely untrained army:
A) North Korea
B) south
C) north
  • 11. Had more factories and railroads:
A) Canada
B) north
C) south
  • 12. Had better skill in shooting, hunting, and riding:
A) south
B) north
C) Mr. Bedwell
  • 13. Bloodiest battle ever fought in North America?
A) Gettysburg
B) Shiloh
C) Antietam
D) Vicksburg
  • 14. How did Clara Barton help the Union army?
A) She was a scout.
B) She made food for the troops.
C) She spied on the Confederates.
D) She cared for the wounded.
  • 15. What were General Grant's main goals for the Union Army?
A) move troops east and destroy Alabama
B) move troops north and fight in Arkansas
C) find General Sherman and join his troops.
D) destroy Lee's army and capture Richmond
  • 16. What was the outcome of Sherman's March?
A) South won the war
B) South's fighting spirit was broken
C) troops marched in Alabama
D) no property was destroyed
  • 17. Where did Lee surrender to Grant?
A) Washington DC
B) Appomattox, VA
C) Richmond, VA
D) Savannah, GA
  • 18. What did southerners call northerners who moved to the south to start businesses after the Civil War?
A) sharecroppers
B) Kim Jong Uns
C) carpetbaggers
D) Yankee Doodles
  • 19. Which of the following groups formed to prevent African Americans from gaining equal rights?
A) Ku Klux Klan
B) Jim Crow Society
C) Communists
D) Freedmen's Bureau
  • 20. What was the term for laws that restricted African American rights after Reconstruction was over?
A) Jim Crow Laws
B) Fugitive slave laws
C) 13, 14, 15 amendments
D) White Laws
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