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