Read each question carefully. If you do not know the answer, use your book or BrainPop
to find the correct answer. Many of these questions will be on your
chapter test this week.

• 1) Eli Whitney invented a machine that cleaned and prepared cotton in less time.
  True   False
• 2) An African who led a slave revolt in Virginia was Henry Clay.
  True   False
• 3) Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States of America.
  True   False
• 4) The Underground Railroad settled arguments over slavery in the Louisiana Purchase.
  True   False
• 5) The Emancipation Proclamation ordered slaves in Confederate states to be freed.
  True   False
• 6) The South contained huge farms called plantations.
  True   False
• 7) The North had more people and factories.
  True   False
• 8) Southern farmers grew cotton or tobacco as cash crops and only enough food for their
  families.
  True   False
• 9) Southerners opposed the spread of slavery to the frontier.
  True   False
• 10) The Underground Railroad helped many slaves in the South reach freedom.
  True   False
• 11) The Civil War began when
  

  Southerners attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
  a southerner assassinated President Lincoln.
  John Brown attacked the South and freed hundreds of soaves.
  President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
• 12) Before the Civil War, most people in the south
  

  lived on large plantations.
  grew crops on small farms.
  owned at least one slave.
  lived in cities along the Atlantic coast.
• 13) Cotton and tobacco were important crops for the South. What crop was significant for the
  North? Interactive Maps 101 will be helpful.
  

  Pecans
  Apples
  Corn
  Rice
• 14) An American responsible for keeping peace between the North and the south from 1820 to
  1850 was
  

  Henry Clay
  Jefferson Davis
  Abraham Lincoln
  Stephen Douglas
• 15) One way the slave codes tried to keep enslaved people under control was
  

  to forbid slaves to meet in groups.
  to strengthen slaves' traditions and religions.
  to send troublemakers north to work in factories
  to send the children of slaves to school.
• 16) Which of these states was not a member of the Confederacy?
  

  Georgia
  Virginia
  New Hampshire
  Florida
• 17) What were anti-slavery activists called?
  

  Freethinkers
  Unionists
  Abolitionists
  Students
• 18) What were the pro-slavery, anti-secession states known as?
  

  frontier states
  border states
  checkpoint states
  conductors
• 19) The idea that states should be able to make their own laws is know as:
  

  Anti-federalism
  Statism
  States' rights
  Freedom
• 20) Who was the Confederacy's head general?
  

  Stonewall Jackson
  Uysses S. Grant
  Robert E. Lee
  President Bush