1. What was forbidden by the Fugitive Slave Act?

a. keeping enslaved people
b. helping enslaved people escape
c. enslaved people leaving their state
d. working on the Underground Railroad

2. What did seven southern states vote to do shortly before Lincoln took office?

a. abolish slavery
b. secede from the United States
c. declare war on the free states
d. keep slavery legal

3. What was the southern army called during the Civil War?

a. Northern Confederacy
b. Union
c. Confederacy
d. Southern Union

4. What did the Emancipation Proclamation state?

a. Union states had won the war
b. slavery would end in the Confederacy
c. Union states had Wall Street’s support
d. the Confederacy had lost the war

5. Which best describes tenement neighborhoods?

a. middle-class population
b. wealthy and clean
c. crime and disease ridden
d. home to manufacturers

6. Which of the following was a gift to the United States from France?

a. Capitol building in Albany
b. Statue of Liberty
c. Liberty Bell
d. Brooklyn Bridge

7. Which building is the tallest in New York state?

a. Guaranty Building
b. Ellicott Square Building
c. Woolworth Building
d. Empire State Building

8. What caused the Great Depression?

a. the Roaring Twenties
b. World War I
c. the stock market crash
d. the New Deal

9. Which amendment repealed Prohibition?

a. 19th Amendment
b. 17th Amendment
c. 18th Amendment
d. 21st Amendment

10. How did the United States raise money for World War II?

a. selling produce from victory gardens
b. selling bonds
c. selling supplies to Allied countries
d. producing more rubber and gasoline