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Unit 6 Social Studies Test
Contributed by: Bedwell
  • 1. In the 1800s what did the Southern economy depend on the most?
A) cotton
B) tobacco
C) industry
D) tourists
  • 2. Under the Missouri Compromise, what balanced Missouri's admission as a slave state?
A) Free states got extra votes
B) Maine as a free state
C) Arkansas as a free state
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) oppose the spread of slavery
D) pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • 5. What was important about the Dred Scott decision?
A) It imposed big fines on slave owners.
B) It closed the underground railroad.
C) It abolished slavery.
D) Meant that if slaves were taken to free states, they were still slaves.
  • 6. What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
A) Shiloh
B) Vicksburg
C) Bull Run
D) Anaconda
  • 7. Which was an advantage of the Confederacy?
A) South had a larger population.
B) Southerners were more skilled at hunting, shooting, and riding.
C) Southern factories were larger than in the north.
D) South had more railroads.
  • 8. Which of the following was new technology in the Civil War?
A) bayonets
B) ironclad battle ships
C) muskets
D) mustard gas
  • 9. Had a strong military tradition:
A) Mrs. Marcus
B) south
C) north
  • 10. Had a largely untrained army:
A) north
B) south
C) North Korea
  • 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) Shiloh
B) Gettysburg
C) Antietam
D) Vicksburg
  • 14. How did Clara Barton help the Union army?
A) She spied on the Confederates.
B) She cared for the wounded.
C) She made food for the troops.
D) She was a scout.
  • 15. What were General Grant's main goals for the Union Army?
A) destroy Lee's army and capture Richmond
B) move troops east and destroy Alabama
C) find General Sherman and join his troops.
D) move troops north and fight in Arkansas
  • 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) Appomattox, VA
B) Richmond, VA
C) Washington DC
D) Savannah, GA
  • 18. What did southerners call northerners who moved to the south to start businesses after the Civil War?
A) Yankee Doodles
B) Kim Jong Uns
C) sharecroppers
D) carpetbaggers
  • 19. Which of the following groups formed to prevent African Americans from gaining equal rights?
A) Ku Klux Klan
B) Communists
C) Freedmen's Bureau
D) Jim Crow Society
  • 20. What was the term for laws that restricted African American rights after Reconstruction was over?
A) 13, 14, 15 amendments
B) White Laws
C) Jim Crow Laws
D) Fugitive slave laws
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