US History: Semester 1 Review

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By what name was General Scott's strategy known?

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the Anaconda Plan

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How did the Missouri Compromise (1820) deal with the issue of slavery?

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It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.

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The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were all important additions to the Constitution because they

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addressed issues that contributed to the Civil War.

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The Constitutional amendment that prohibited denying voting rights to people based on race or color is the

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Fifteenth Amendment.

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Regardless of which state a person lives in, all American citizens enjoy the rights contained in the Constitution and the Amendments thanks to the

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14th Amendment.

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Although the 15th Amendment was added to insure the voting rights of African-American citizens, this right was restricted by states'

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use of literacy tests and poll taxes.

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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." (1863) This quote came from statements made on what occasion?

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the dedication of a Civil War battlefield

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Why did tenant farming become a dominant form of agriculture in the 1870s?

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Masses of former slaves were needed to work for landowners.

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Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" had all the following effects EXCEPT: it transformed the Union's goal of the war; it caused the Union to change its Confiscation Acts; The British & French refused to support the Confederate States.

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it led to mass movements of slaves out of "border states"

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The diagram compares two industrial revolutions.
Which phrase best completes the diagram?

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New methods of telecommunication