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Causes Of The Civil War
Test Description: SS8H6a
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What was the primary economic activity in the South?
A
Industry
B
Agriculture
C
Basket Weaving
D
Financial Services
2) What was the primary economic activity in the North?
A
Industry
B
Financial Services
C
Basket Weaving
D
Agriculture
3) Why did the South support slavery?
A
Cotton farming requires much manual labor
B
Southerners were lazy
C
Cotton farming was done mostly by machines
D
Slavery was too expensive
4) What is an Abolitionist?
A
Someone who does not believe in God
B
Someone who believes slavery is wrong and should be stopped.
C
Someone who supports slavery
D
Someone who wants to hold political office
5) How did the Missouri compromise calm things down?
A
It meant that Missouri would be a free state
B
It led to anti-slave legislation being passed immediately
C
It guaranteed that Georgia would secede from the Union
D
It meant that there were equal numbers of slave and free states
6) What did the Georgia Platform accomplish?
A
It settled down the secessionists and confirmed GA\'s agreement with the Compromise of 1850
B
It caused the secessionists to become more vocal and agitated
C
It led to Georgia outlawing slavery
D
It caused Georgia to reject the Compromise of 1850
7) What necessitated the Compromise of 1850?
A
California seceding from the Union
B
New Mexico annexing with Texas
C
Spain attacking South Carolina
D
California being brought into the Union
8) Who authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A
Stephen Douglas of Illinois
B
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois
C
Dred Scott of Kansas
D
Alexander Stephens of Georgia
9) What was the Dred Scott decision?
A
A supreme court ruling that California would be a slave state
B
A supreme court ruling that slaves could not sue because they were not citizens
C
A supreme court ruling that freed slaves could not be forced back into slavery
D
A supreme court ruling that slaves were citizens and could file lawsuits.
10) How did Georgia vote in the election of 1860?
A
The majority of Georgia voters supported Abraham Lincoln
B
Georgia voters split between Lincoln, Douglas, and Breckenridge
C
Most Georgians did not vote, out of protest
D
The majority of Georgia voters supported John Breckenridge
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