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8-4.1 to 8-4.3
Quiz by Mara Thomas
Grade 8
Social Studies (2011)
South Carolina Learning Standards
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28 questions
Q.What is the definition of sectionalism ?
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Q.Using this map, it can BEST be determined
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Q."Bleeding Kansas is BEST described as
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Q.During the Antebellum era, the principle of popular sovereignty meant that whether a . territory allowed slavery would be left up to
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Q.Which statement about the effects of the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Snaford is TRUE?
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Q.When his owner took him into a free state, ____________ took the opportunity to sue for his freedom.
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Q.Aboltionists often opposed annexation of western territories because they
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Q.Which of the following men attacked Harper's Ferry in hopes of obtaining ammunition and causing a slave revolt?
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Q.What was the main argument Southerners made in defense of slavery?
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Q.Which BEST describes the efforts of William Lloyd Garrison?
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Q.When Virginia and Kentucy in the late 1700s and South Carolina in the 1830s refused to follow federal law, they were practicing
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Q.The nullification Crisis of 1832 centered around
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Q.This law, which allowed territories to decide the fate of slavery based on popular sovereignty, unintentioanlly had the effect of increasing tensions between pro-slavery and antislavery forces as they rushed west and had violent clashes over control of territory.
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Q.Why did Southern states object ot and resist the rarifs of 1828 and 1832
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Q.Which event finally caused South Carolina to secede from the United States in 1860?
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Q.In the mid-1800s, a unionist in the American South would have been MOST likely to support
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Q.Which statement BEST describes the belief of "Cooperationists" in South Carolina during the Antebellum Era?
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Q.Which is the BEST description of the difference between the Unionist and Secessionsist viewpoints regarding secession?
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Q.Which southern social class would most likely live in the home pictured?
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Q.Antebellum is
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Q.Which of the following best describes the North's economy that is based on producing products in textile mills?
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Q.When the cotton gin was introduced to the South, the slave population increased. This resulted in
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Q.What was the nick name given to cotton?
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Q.Describe each of the men listed.
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Q.South Carolina was politically divdied for years. When Eli Whitley introduced the cotton gin, the upcountry began growing more cotton . How did this lead to the government in South Carolina changing?
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Q.Which of the followign jobs below could be contributed to a slave working on a plantation in the South? (Select all that apply)
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Q.Select all examples of the slave codes passed in South Carolina
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Q.In what ways did slaves regulary show resistances to their situation? (Check all that apply)
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