Unit 5 Quiz 1

DIRECTIONS: Please write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Please do not write the questions.

Multiple choice.
1. Why were people from Africa brought to Georgia?
a. to help fight Georgia’s enemies.
b. to settle the backcountry
c. to be forced into labor
d. to help produce silk

2. Which statement BEST explains why there are so few accounts written by slaves about their lives during the antebellum era?
a. it was illegal for slaves to learn to read and write.
b. only abolitionist leaders wrote books about slavery
c. books about slavery were not as popular as other books.
d. slaves were not willing to write about the horrors of slavery.

3. What was the major type of labor used on Georgia’s plantations before the Civil War?
a. indentured servitude.
b. hourly wage labor.
c. sharecropping
d. slavery

4. Which region of the United States believed that states should be able to govern themselves without interference from the national government?
a. Great Lakes states
b. Northern states
c. Pacific Coast states
d. Southern states

5. States’ rights can BEST be defined as the belief that states
a. could not free their slaves
b. could leave the Union at any time if they chose to
c. could ignore national laws if they were harmful to the state.
d. could foce the national government to turn over all national government property to the states.

6. Someone who believed in states’ rights would probably support which statement?
a. national laws always take precedence over state laws
b. the national government has no right to tell states how to operate.
c. states could only pass legislation on issues set out in the U.S. Constitution
d. disputes between states should always be settled by the national government.

7. The early 1800s belief of some people that a state could refuse to enforce a federal law was known as
a. absolution
b. justification
c. nullification
d. ratification

8. The purpose of the Missouri Compromise was to
a. return slaves captured in free states to slave states
b. allow slavery in Maine but not in Missouri
c. maintain a balance between slave and free states
d. let Missouri have slavery until 1850

9. Which was the result of the Compromise of 1850?
a. owning slaves was forbidden in Washington DC
b. slavery was permitted in the new state of California
c. importation of slaves from Africa was declared illegal
d. runaway slaves had to be returned to southern owners

10. The purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act was to
a. require slaves to have citizenship papers in order to obtain jobs
b. prevent slaves from testifying against whites in court trails
c. require slaves that had run away to go back to their owners
d. prevent slaves from having group gatherings or meetings

Indicate whether the statement or phrase better describes the North or the South prior to the Civil War by writing N for North or S for South in the blank.

11. _____ Had an economy based on industries.

12. _____ Region had warm climate and fertile topsoil, making it suitable for agriculture.

13. _____ Residents of the region tended to be interdependent.

14. _____ Believed that the U.S. Constitution was a compact made by independent states that could withdraw voluntarily.

15. _____ Rejected the concept of nullification.

16. _____ Residents were more likely to provide for themselves through hunting, fishing, and farming.

17. _____ Supported the doctrine of states’ rights.

18. _____ Feared losing factory workers to settlements in the West.

19. _____ Believed states had the power to determine if laws passed by Congress were constitutional.

Match the numbered terms below with the lettered definitions at the bottom of this page.

20. states’ rights
21. nullification
22. sectionalism
23. interdependence
24. antebellum

A. dependent on one another for various needs
B. Placing regional regional interests above national ones
C. the right to determine if a law is constitutional or not
D. belief that states have specific powers separate from the powers of the national government
E. period before the Civil War