Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Read
the passage and answer the following questions.
King Cotton
in Alabama
From
1800 to 1860, cotton became the South’s most important crop. Cotton production doubled
every ten years, and Alabama was at the center of the cotton economy. By 1850, the state of
Alabama was the nation’s leading cotton producer.
Several factors led to the boom
of the cotton industry. One was the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, which allowed
cotton producers to process ten times more cotton than before. Another factor was the increased
demand for cotton, as northern states and Britian needed cotton for their textile
production.
Alabama was
ideal for producing cotton. The soil was fertile, and the growing season was long.
Alabama’s many rivers created a useful transporation system. Later, the invention of the
steamship made it even easier to ship cotton.
Large numbers of settlers moved
to Alabama after 1812, and many began to grow cotton. By the 1850’s, Alabama cotton
growers became some of the wealthiest people in the nation.
The cotton economy required
many workers, and Alabamaians relied on the labor of enslaved people. Many settlers moving to
Alabama from Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina brought their enslaved workers with
them. Most of the enslaved people in Alabama worked in cotton
production.
What is a synonym for the word
tariff?
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Which
state was the nation’s leading cotton producer by 1850? a. | Georgia | c. | North
Carolina | b. | Alabama | d. | South Carolina | | | | |
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How
did the cotton gin affect the South? a. | It brought an end to slavery | c. | Southern farmers were more dependent on
slavery | b. | Plantation owners lost money | d. | It increased wheat, corn, barley, and rice
production | | | | |
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What
did people think about the Missouri Compromise? a. | People thought it was unfair | c. | People in slave states thought it was
unfair | b. | People on both sides were
satisfied | d. | Only the people
of Missouri were satisfied | | | | |
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By
1860, fewer than half of Northerners were farmers.
What can you
infer from this statement? a. | The North’s economy was
strong | c. | There were no
enslaved people in the North | b. | Northerners did not want to be
farmers | d. | The North’s
economy depended less on farming | | | | |
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Matching
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a. | Draft | e. | impeach | b. | Emancipation | f. | Jim Crow | c. | Telegraph | g. | segregation | d. | Assassination | h. | sharecropping | | | | |
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The
murder of an important leader
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A
systemin which landowners allowed poor farmers to use parts of their land in return for a share of
the crop.
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Lincoln made this in order to weaken the Confederacy and to abolish
slavery.
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To
charge a government official with a crime.
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10.
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A
machine that sends electrical signals over wires.
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11.
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Forced separation of the races.
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12.
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Laws
that segregated African Americans from other Americans.
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13.
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This
is when the military forces people to be soldiers.
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a. | Abolitionist | e. | Popular
Sovereignty | b. | Discrimination | f. | Secession | c. | Missouri
Compromise | g. | Jefferson
Davis | d. | Kansas-Nebraska Act | h. | Abraham Lincoln | | | | |
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14.
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The
act of judging someone unfairly.
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15.
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Bave
popular sovereignty to Kansas and Nebraska territories.
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Created an imaginary line at the 38 parallel across Missouri which made any land north
of the line people could not own slaves and anything south of the line people could own
slaves.
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Said
to the South, “We are not enemies, but friends”.
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18.
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What
southerns called for to protect their right to own enslaved people.
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One
who works to end something.
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When
people who live in a place make the decisions.
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21.
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President of the Confederacy.
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