7th Grade Semester One Review- Social Studies Question Preview (ID: 40346)


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The plan that preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate was the:
a) Missouri Compromise
b) North/South Compromise
c) Maine Compromise
d) Slavery Compromise

Being loyal to a region rather than to the nation is known as:
a) abolitionism
b) sectionalism
c) fugitive
d) seced

The law that required all citizens to help capture runaway slaves was the:
a) Removal Act
b) Runaway Act
c) Fugitive Slave Act
d) Slave Owner's Act

Harriet Beecher Stowe's book UNCLE TOMS CABIN:
a) chronicled the Lincoln-Douglas debates
b) followed the adventures of a young boy on a Mississippi riverboat
c) tells the story of Fort Sumter
d) showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system

Stephen A Douglas proposed letting people decide about slavery through
a) popular sovereignty
b) free choice
c) states' choice
d) executive order

What event led to the South officially seceding?
a) Fugitive Slave Act
b) John Brown's raid
c) election of Lincoln
d) Compromise of 1850

What was the capital of the Confederacy?
a) Richmond, Virginia
b) Atlanta, Georgia
c) Lexington, Kentucky
d) Baltimore, Maryland

Who was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
a) Thomas Jefferson
b) Stephen A. Douglas
c) Abraham Lincoln
d) Jefferson Davis

The first state to secede from the Union:
a) South Carolina
b) Maine
c) Virginia
d) Ohio

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
a) Bunker Hill
b) Vicksburg
c) Fort Sumter
d) Gettysburg

The first major battle of the Civil War was the
a) Battle of Yorktown
b) First Battle of Bull Run
c) Landing at Normandy
d) Battle of Gettysburg

From the start of the war, the North's main goal was to:
a) make an issue of slavery
b) preserve the Union
c) destroy the South
d) please the abolitionists

According to the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves would be freed:
a) in all states
b) in the North
c) in rebelling states
d) in the South

The battle in which Grant successfully gained control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in half
a) Gettysburg
b) Shiloh
c) Appomattox
d) Vicksburg

The turning point of the Civil War
a) Battle of Gettysburg
b) Battle of Chancellorsville
c) Battle of Fredericksburg
d) Battle of Appomattox

Law that required men between certain ages to serve in the army for three years
a) Dred Scott decision
b) Fugitive Slave Act
c) draft
d) habeas corpus

Clara Barton tended wounded soldiers and eventually founded the
a) Hospitals Union
b) Nurses Union
c) Veterans Affairs
d) American Red Cross

Which group formed the 54th Massachusetts regime?
a) American Indians
b) Hispanic Americans
c) Canadian Americans
d) African Americans

Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?
a) Richmond
b) Vicksburg
c) Appomattox
d) Gettysburg

Lincoln's speech that helped war-weary Americans focus on their shared ideals was called the
a) Emancipation Proclamation
b) Copperhead Speech
c) Gettysburg Address
d) I Have a Dream speec

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