SS (4th) Unit 1, Lesson 5

Question 1

When each new territory in the United States became a state, what did people in the North and South argue about?

Answer 1

Whether slavery would be allowed there.

Question 2

Many Northerners worked in factories and saw slavery as a threat to what?

Answer 2

wage labor

Question 3

In the South, a way of life had come to depend on what?

Answer 3

slave labor

Question 4

Who was elected president in 1860, and many Southerners were afraid that he wanted to end slavery altogether?

Answer 4

Abraham Lincoln

Question 5

When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, what were many Southerners afraid of?

Answer 5

That Lincoln wanted to end slavery altogether

Question 6

Southern states broke away from the United States and formed what?

Answer 6

The Confederate States of America

Question 7

The Confederate States of America was formed when the ________ states broke away from the United States.
(A) Northern
(B) Southern

Answer 7

(B) Southern

Question 8

Who was president of the Confederacy?

Answer 8

Jefferson Davis

Question 9

What started the beginning of the Civil War?

Answer 9

When the Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter.

Question 10

In April 1861, Confederate forces opened fire on ____________.

Answer 10

Fort Sumter

Question 11

On what date (month & year) did the Confederate forces open fire on Fort Sumter, starting the Civil War.

Answer 11

April 1861

Question 12

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a novel that influenced many people to want to end slavery. What is the name of the novel?

Answer 12

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 13

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 13

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 14

Name two strengths of the South.

Answer 14

1. Their army - men in the South knew how to hunt and ride horses
2. Well-trained officers

Question 15

What was the main weakness of the South?

Answer 15

They grew mostly cotton, not food.

Question 16

Who was the commander of the Confederate army?

Answer 16

Robert E. Lee

Question 17

Robert E. Lee was the commander of the __________ army.
(A) Confederate
(B) Union

Answer 17

(A) Confederate

Question 18

Name four strengths of the North.

Answer 18

1. larger population
2. more supplies
3. more food
4. most of the railroads

Question 19

Having a larger population & most of the railroads were strengths of the _________?
(A) North
(B) South

Answer 19

(A) North

Question 20

What was the main weakness of the North?

Answer 20

Their people did not have fighting skills.

Question 21

Ulysses S. Grant was the commander of _________ army.
(A) Confederate
(B) Union

Answer 21

(B) Union

Question 22

What was issued by Lincoln and said that all enslaved people in the Confederacy would be free?

Answer 22

The Emancipation Proclamation

Question 23

How long did the Civil War last?

Answer 23

four years

Question 24

When was President Lincoln shot and killed?

Answer 24

April 14, 1865

Question 25

The period following the Civil War when the nation needed to be rebuilt.

Answer 25

The Reconstruction

Question 26

Who had a plan for Southern states to pledge their loyalty to the Union and abolish slavery?

Answer 26

President Johnson

Question 27

Which state did not rejoin the Union by the fall of 1865?

Answer 27

Texas

Question 28

What were the three amendments to the Constitution that were passed?

Answer 28

13th - made slavery illegal
14th - gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States
15th - gave the right to vote to all U.S. male citizens

Question 29

Match the number to the correct amendment.
Made slavery illegal.
(A) 13th
(B) 14th
(C) 15th

Answer 29

(A) 13th amendment

Question 30

Match the number to the correct amendment.
Gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States.
(A) 13th
(B) 14th
(C) 15th

Answer 30

(B) 14th amendment

Question 31

Match the number to the correct amendment.
Gave the right to vote to all U.S. male citizens.
(A) 13th
(B) 14th
(C) 15th

Answer 31

(C) 15th amendment

Question 32

Most _______________ did not want African Americans to be treated as their equals, so the new parts of the Constitution were not always enforced.

Answer 32

white Southerners

Question 33

Most white Southerners did not want ________________ to be treated as their equals, so the new parts of the Constitution were not always enforced.

Answer 33

African Americans

Question 34

What was passed to make the separation for African American and whites legal?

Answer 34

Jim Crow laws

Question 35

What were the Jim Crow laws?

Answer 35

Laws that were passed making the separation of African Americans and whites legal.

Question 36

A person who comes to a new country to live.

Answer 36

immigrant

Question 37

Many immigrants headed _________.
(A) east
(B) west

Answer 37

(B) west

Question 38

What happened by many immigrants heading west?

Answer 38

The population of the United States grew.

Question 39

Even though the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho joined together to protect their lands, they lost and were eventually moved where?

Answer 39

To reservations

Question 40

Dozens of ________, or new products, were changing American lives: farm machinery, the telephone, electric lights, a cheaper way to make steel.

Answer 40

inventions

Question 41

Name some inventions, or new products that were changing American lives.

Answer 41

farm machinery
the telephone
electric lights
a cheaper way to make steel

Question 42

Who perfected the first practical light bulb?

Answer 42

Thomas Edison