SLO Final Exam Practice Set Eight

Cause: Farmland in the Upcountry was poorer quality than the soil located in the Low Country. 

Effect_____________________________________________________

• More slaves were needed in the Upcountry because of poor soil required more work.

• Upcountry farmers grew wheat and grain because they required less water.

• The practice of subsistence farming was used by the Upcountry farmers.

• Soil from the Low Country was transported to the farms of the Upcountry.

Due to the poorer quality of farmland in the Upcountry compared to the Low Country, Upcountry farmers ___________________________ the practice of subsistence farming.

• abandoned

• embraced

• rejected

• ignored

Cause:__________________________________________________________

Effect: Delegates at the Constitutional Convention passed the 3/5th compromise.

• Northern states were concerned the South would not pay their share of taxes to the government.

• Democrats and Republicans disagreed about the length of the President’s term in office.

• Southern planters feared Northern manufacturers would buy raw materials from foreign countries.

• Free states believed enslaved Africans should not count in a state’s population.

Because free states believed that enslaved Africans should not count in a state’s population, delegates at the Constitutional Convention ___________________ the 3/5th compromise.

• rejected

• passed

• ignored

• debated

Cause: During the writing of the Constitution, South Carolina was one of the most populated states.

Effect:_____________________________________________________

• Their delegates had more influence and power over the representatives from smaller states.

• They supported the representation proposal outlined in the Virginia Plan.

• Other states expected South Carolina to pay a larger share to establish the new capital at Washington D.C.

• Their representatives supported a system of checks and balances to limit the government’s power.

As one of the most populated states during the writing of the Constitution, South Carolina ____________________ the representation proposal outlined in the Virginia Plan.

• opposed

• ignored

• supported

• criticized

Cause: South Carolina's delegates feared the government might regulate exports and the slave trade.                

Effect:__________________________________________________

• They refused to sign the United States Constitution.

• They supported the provisions outlined in the Commerce Compromise.

• They banned imports coming from industrialized European nations.

• They met with other Southern leaders to discuss forming their own independent nation.

Fearing that the government might regulate exports and the slave trade, South Carolina's delegates ____________________ the provisions outlined in the Commerce Compromise.

• rejected

• debated

• supported

• criticized

Cause: The founders of the United States created a government based on the concept of republicanism.

Effect: __________________________________________

• The people elect representatives to speak for the in the government.

• The people vote on the laws and bills created in the government.

• The people support a political party to represent them in the government.

• The people select a President that has the power to choose the rest of the government.

Since the founders of the United States created a government based on the concept of republicanism, the people ______________ representatives to speak for them in the government.

• appoint

• elect

• ignore

• criticize