placeholder image to represent content

Assessment Review 5.26-5.28

Quiz by Lindsay Hill

Our brand new solo games combine with your quiz, on the same screen

Correct quiz answers unlock more play!

New Quizalize solo game modes
16 questions
Show answers
  • Q1
    Before the Civil War Tennessee's economy was based on what?
    Industry
    Cotton
    Factories
    Transportation
    45s
  • Q2
    The South needed to change their economy for all of the following EXCEPT:
    To continue farming
    To employ more people
    To move towards industrialization
    To be competitive with the North
    45s
  • Q3
    Tennessee's "New South Economy" included all EXCEPT:
    Agriculture
    Lumber
    Food manufacturers
    Mining
    45s
  • Q4
    A negative effect of the lumber industry in the Cumberland Plateau in the Great Smoky Mountains was:
    The U.S. Department of Forestry was created to preserve the forested land.
    Increased lumber production
    Created a rich industry
    The land began to erode.
    45s
  • Q5
    All of the following are challenges of building the Transcontinental Railroad EXCEPT:
    Weather
    Topography
    Money
    Hostile Native Americans
    45s
  • Q6
    Which of the following was a NEGATIVE effect of building the Transcontinental Railroad?
    Increased homesteaders.
    Decreased the number of Native Americans.
    Safer, faster way to travel.
    Created a population boom.
    45s
  • Q7
    Transcontinental Railroad joined the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies in which western city?
    Lenoir City, Tennessee
    Sacramento, California
    Omaha, Nebraska
    Promontory, Utah
    45s
  • Q8
    Which state stood between Virginia and the Union capital of Washington, D.C.?
    Missouri
    Delaware
    Maryland
    Kentucky
    45s
  • Q9
    How many African Americans had the opportunity to serve in the General Assembly from around 1878-1887, and who was the first to be elected?
    8 and Sojourner Truth
    10 and Frederick Douglas
    13 and Harriet Tubman
    14 and Sampson Keeble
    45s
  • Q10
    What railroad company began work in California?
    Western Pacific
    Eastern Pacific
    Central Pacific
    Union Pacific
    45s
  • Q11
    What railroad company had the biggest job of carving out a path in the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
    Western Pacific
    Eastern Pacific
    Central Pacific
    Union Pacific
    45s
  • Q12
    Yellow Fever was deadly in West Tennessee because of all of the following EXCEPT:
    Swampy areas existed in this area.
    Close to the Mississippi River and river traffic.
    miasmas in the air carried the disease from New Orleans.
    It was spread by mosquitoes.
    45s
  • Q13
    All of the following were positive impacts of Yellow Fever EXCEPT:
    14 African American were members of the General Assembly and 1st elected was Sampson Keeble.
    Improved water and sewer systems
    Memphis lost city charter in 1878
    African Americans filled vacant positions in the police force.
    45s
  • Q14
    Tennessee had many industries that help the economy expand. This industry was the key factor in expansion of industry.
    Building of railroads
    Lumber
    Iron processing
    Coal mining
    45s
  • Q15
    Which theater of war included the battles of Shiloh, Franklin, Nashville, Chickamauga, Ft. Henry and Donelson, & Vicksburg?
    Western
    Eastern
    Trans-Mississippi
    Southern
    45s

Teachers give this quiz to your class