H5-6 Civil War and Reconstruction

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How did the Compromise of 1850 deal with the issue of slavery?

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Resulted in the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act.

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Why did Southerners argue that states’ rights were violated by abolitionists who opposed slavery?

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Abolition violated states’ rights to choose what their laws should be.

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Which was a direct result of President Lincoln winning the Election of 1860? Options: The Dred Scott Case., Battle of Chickamauga., Georgia gets admitted back into the Union., South Carolina seceded from the Union.

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South Carolina seceded from the Union.

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Georgia's decision to secede from the Union was important because they had high economic value as major agricultural producer.

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they had high economic value as major agricultural producer.

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The Emancipation Proclamation

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abolished slavery in the seceded states.

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What was an important outcome of the Atlanta Campaign?

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re-election of President Abraham Lincoln

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Scott's Great Snake, which was also called the Anaconda Plan was a(n)

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Union Blockade in the South.

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Which statement BEST describes Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan? Options: punish the South for seceding from the Union., increase taxes and tariffs on seceded states., allow seceded states to make up their own rules and laws., readmit southern states into the Union.

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readmit southern states into the Union.

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An impact of the Freedmen’s Bureau during Reconstruction was that they

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provided food, shelter, and clothing to freed slaves and poor whites.

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After the Civil War, what lifestyle did many poor whites and freed slaves adopt?

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tenant farming and sharecropping