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