APUSH Period 5 Review

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The place where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant.

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Appomattox Court House

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An abolitionist who tried to start a slave rebellion by attacking an armory at Harpers Ferry, VA.

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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

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The place where Confederate cannons opened fire thus starting the Civil War

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Fort Sumter

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What was Lincoln's rationale for war against the South in 1861? Options: liberate the slaves, prevent Europe from meddling in American affairs, preserve the Union, stop a Southern invasion of the North

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preserve the Union

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In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected on a platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT: higher protective tariffs, government support of a transcontinental railroad, free homesteads for settlers, the abolition of slavery throughout the entire US.

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the abolition of slavery throughout the entire US

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In adopting the 14th Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with: protecting powers of Southern state governments established under Johnson, ending slavery, protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves, establishing the Freedmen's Bureau

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protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves

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The Black Codes passed in Southern states after the Civil War intended to

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place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people

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The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following? admitted Texas to the Union as a slave state, admitted California to the Union under the principle of popular sovereignty, enacted a stringent fugitive slave law, adjusted the Texas-Mexico boundary

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enacted a stringent fugitive slave law

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The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

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held that the federal government could not regulate slavery in the territories

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act introduced popular sovereignty to

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allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery would be permitted there