GED Social Studies : Slavery
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Example Question #1 : Civil War
The Wilmot Proviso __________.
provided funding to help African Americans attend higher education in the twentieth century
was supported heavily in the South, but could not pass Congress due to Northern opposition
succeeded in establishing the policy of popular sovereignty regarding the extension of slavery into new territories
provided relief and economic assistance to freed slaves in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War
tried to ban the extension of slavery into any territory acquired in the Mexican-American War
tried to ban the extension of slavery into any territory acquired in the Mexican-American War
The Wilmot Proviso was first proposed in 1847 as a provision on a larger bill. It was an attempt at banning the extension of slavery into any territories acquired from the Mexican-American War; however, it was blocked in Congress by Southern opposition in the Senate. It is considered a major moment in the attempts to unify the disparate economies and social systems of the North and South by compromising on the issue of slavery prior to the Civil War.
Example Question #1 : Civil War
Who was the commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War?
Stonewall Jackson
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
William Tecumseh Sherman
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman were generals in the Union Army. Robert E. Lee was the commander of the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The leadership of the Confederate army was considered one of the strengths of the South during the Civil War.
Example Question #2 : Civil War
The system of routes and safe houses used by slaves escaping from the South to the North was called the __________.
Highway to Heaven
Underground Railroad
The Cotton Road
Emancipation Station
Escape to Liberty
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad is a metaphor for a system of known routes and safe houses used by slaves escaping from the South to the North. The Railroad was used by several tens of thousands of escaped slaves in the years immediately before and during the Civil War.
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