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America North and South History
created by
jmathis
on 24 Aug 11, enabled by
jimmy
History
Medium level
(65% of success)
30 questions - 146 players
5th Grade - North and South History Test
1
What was life like for the Southerners?
Southerners worked in factories
Southerners lived in large towns and cities
Southerners lived and worked on farms in small towns
2
What was life like for the Northerners?
Northerners lived and worked on farms
Northerners worked in factories and lived in large towns and cities
Northerners lived in small towns and cities
3
What is a sectionalism?
A loyalty to a section or part of the country rather than to the whole country
A loyalty to the whole country
Not loyal to the country
4
Most Northerners still lived on farms
True
False
Northerners lived in cities
5
Nine of the ten largest cities, in 1860 were in the South
True
False
There were no cities in 1860
6
Goals of factory owners and workers were different from the plantation owners and farmers in the South
True
False
They all got along and had the same goals
7
Northern states wanted higher tariffs, or taxes and higher prices and Southern states wanted lower on imported goods
True
False
They didn't care
8
In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves
Were not citizens and had no rights, even in free states
Were citizens and had rights in free states
Were not citizens and had no rights unless they were in free states
9
A loyalty to a section or part of the country rather than to the whole country?
Tariff
Law
Sectionalism
10
By 1850 Slavery was allowed in the
Northern states
Southern states
All of the US
11
Congress voted to lower the tariff on imports, which angered many
Northerners
Southerners
Northerners and Southerners
12
The number of enslaved African Americans in the US reached almost
2, 000 (two thousand)
100, 000 (hundred thousand)
4, 000, 000 (four million)
13
Slave codes are
Codes that the slaves used to talk to each other
Laws to control the behavior of slaves, also made life difficult for them
Codes that the slave orders used to talk to the slaves
14
What is the Missouri Compromise?
New states north of the line would be free states. New states south of the line could allow slavery
All new states would be free states
All new states would be slave states
15
African Americans resisted slavery, but all of the following except?
Breaking rules, by learning to read & write
Worked slowly, pretend to be sick and broke tools
Obey the owner
16
Who is Nat Turner?
Turner was slave that was set free
In 1831, Turner and his followers killed about 60 whites in VA
Turner led an underground railroad
17
Who was the farmer from West Africa that seized the Spanish slave ship?
Joseph Cinque
Nat Turner
Harriet Tubman
18
What was the name of the ship?
Coffin
Titanic
Amistad
19
What was the Supreme Court decision regarding the ship, the Africans and Spanish?
Free the Africans
Send the Africans to Spain
Put the Africans in prison
20
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Slaves were allowed to stay in the North with freedom
Escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners, even if they had reached Northern states wehre slavery was not allowed
Slaves in the North was free to travel to the South
21
What was the Underground Railroad?
An organized, secret system set up to help enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the North or Canada
A train that took slaves from the south to the north for freedom
A underground tunnel that blacks were free to take for freedom
22
What is an Underground Railroad conductor?
The guides, or people who helped those escaping
In charge of the train that slaves road to the north to freedom
Conducted the whites on how to set slaves free
23
Who is Jefferson Davis?
A former US senator from Mississippi that was the President of the US
A former US senator from Mississippi that was the President of the Confederacy
A former US senator from Mississippi that was the President of the Union
24
Who was the most famous conductor?
Levi Coffin
Catherine Coffin
Harriet Tubman
25
Who is Levi Coffin?
A black man that was a conductor on the underground railroad
A white man that was a conductor on the underground railroad
A black woman that was a conductor on the underground railroad
26
What is secede?
To break away from the US
To be the first state in the confederacy
To be the last state in the confederacy
27
What is a civil war?
War between the north and south
War between people of differnce countries
War between people of the same country
28
What are border states?
Located between the Union and Confederacy
Located between the North and the South
Slave states bording each other
29
What was the first state that seceded?
South Carolina
Georgia
North Carolina
30
What begain the Civil War?
Union troops forces fired on US troop at Fort Sumter, SC
Confederate forces fired on US troops at Fort Sumter, SC
Confederacy and Union troops disagreed on slavery
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