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