Chapter 4 Test MS Studies Review

Question 1

What were some of the ways slaves resisted their owners?

Accepted Answer

All Choices

Question 2

Union General Grant surrounded Vicksburg, MS and lay siege to it for 43 days until it surrendered.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Why were Confederate Generals ordered to defend Corinth, MS?

Accepted Answer

It was a railway that connected Memphis to Charleston and Mobile to Ohio.

Question 4

Mississippi met at a secession convention to determine that it had the right to secede if

Accepted Answer

Relations did not improve between MS and the United States

Question 5

General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

The Confederate capitol was moved to_______ and __________ was elected President of the CSA.

Accepted Answer

Richmond, VA Jefferson Davis

Question 7

The section of the country advocating strong federal government, industry and pro-protectionism

Accepted Answer

North

Question 8

Slave codes were often enforced by the..

Accepted Answer

Overseer

Question 9

Laborsystem that established by law , custom that slaves were the personal property of their owners and could be bought

Accepted Answer

Chattel Slavery

Question 10

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in 1863.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

Tax placed on imported manufactured goods

Accepted Answer

Tariff

Question 12

Who was the Confederate commander in charge of protecting this port town on the MS River?

Accepted Answer

General John Pemberton

Question 13

A major port town on the MS River that was the last major target for the Union forces

Accepted Answer

Vicksburg, MS

Question 14

all black majority counties along the MS River were placed to minimize the impact of blacks in congressional elections

Accepted Answer

Shoestring District

Question 15

What were the terms of General Pemberton's surrender at Vicksburg, MS?

Accepted Answer

All Confederate troops would sign an oath not to fight.

Question 16

To be classified as a large plantation, one would have to own ________ and farm ________acres.

Accepted Answer

50 or more slaves, 500 acres

Question 17

SixteenthSectionFunds-the lease of every sixteenth out of thirtysix sections land were used to support ___in that sectio

Accepted Answer

Public Schools

Question 18

A tactic where armed forces try to capture a fort or town by surrounding it and preventing supplies from reaching it.

Accepted Answer

Siege

Question 19

The section of the country that relied on a plantation economy of cotton and slavery

Accepted Answer

South

Question 20

How were newspaper editors able to affect the thinking of Mississippians regarding slavery?

Accepted Answer

They wrotewith an air of authority and certainty andreinforced good vs evil

Question 21

Why was Andrew Johnson impeached after he replaced Abraham Lincoln?

Accepted Answer

Hetried to blockthe implementation of the Congressional Reconstruction Acts

Question 22

Mississippi was the ____ state to secede from the Union.

Accepted Answer

2nd

Question 23

An allegiance to local, rather than national interests

Accepted Answer

Sectionalism

Question 24

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln and stated:

Accepted Answer

All slaves in seceded states are forever free.

Question 25

Most slaves, if convicted of a serious crime were not executed, but...

Accepted Answer

Sold to Portuguese sailors in Brazil

Question 26

A large agricultural estate of just one crop

Accepted Answer

Plantation

Question 27

California admitted as free state,popular sovereigntyfor Utah and New Mexico territories,the Fugitive Slave Act passed.

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1850

Question 28

What did the Reconstruction Acts require of MS so it could be readmitted into the Union?

Accepted Answer

Choices A and B are both correct.

Question 29

The section of America that relied on industry, and exports to make money

Accepted Answer

North

Question 30

To be classified as a farmer, one would have to own ___________ and farm __________ acres.

Accepted Answer

Less than 20 slaves, fewer than 200 acres

Question 31

Why were most southern towns developed on the MS River?

Accepted Answer

For convenience to ship crops on the river

Question 32

General Grant's right hand man,George Pickettmade Picketts March, destroying everything in his path to Savannah, Georgia

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

These laws were created in the 1700s to help manage the slave population.

Accepted Answer

Slave Codes

Question 34

The final straw to secede for Mississippi was..

Accepted Answer

The election of Abraham Lincoln

Question 35

By 1860, Mississippi was exporting ______ of the country's supply of cotton.

Accepted Answer

1/3

Question 36

What does antebellum mean?

Accepted Answer

Before war

Question 37

Most schools in the South were

Accepted Answer

Only one-room school houses and shared by all grades

Question 38

To camp with little shelter

Accepted Answer

Bivouac

Question 39

What happened to Mrs. Grant when she visited Mississippi?

Accepted Answer

She was almost captured in Holly Springs, MS.

Question 40

Mississippians opposed racial equality gaveto white Mississippian who join theRepublicans and supported citizenship

Accepted Answer

Scalawags

Question 41

An early but major issue between the North and South was..

Accepted Answer

Choice A and B are both correct.

Question 42

The theory that all men are endowed by their creator with rights of life, liberty and property.

Accepted Answer

Natural Rights

Question 43

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 stated..

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 44

The principle that rights of the individual states should prevail over the federal government

Accepted Answer

States' Rights

Question 45

The three types of slaves in Mississippi were field slaves, house slaves and ..

Accepted Answer

Town slaves

Question 46

What was the attitude toward slavery at the beginning of MS statehood?

Accepted Answer

Slavery is an evil system of labor that should be abolished.

Chapter 4 Test MS Studies Review

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Chapter 4 Test MS Studies Review

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