8th Grade Social Studies STAAR Review

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The 13th Amendment to the Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by-

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guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery

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The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified in order to?

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protect the voting rights of African American men.

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Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War?

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Appomattox Court House, Virginia

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Union captured the Mississippi River and divided the Confederacy in half

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Battle of Vicksburg

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What was the primary cause of the American Civil War?

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Slavery

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Which outcome best completes this diagram? Options: American Revolution, Popular Sovereignty, Manifest Destiny, Civil War

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Civil War

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Why did slavery become a widespread practice in the United States during the early nineteenth century?

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The need for agricultural labor increased as a result of expanded cotton production.

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What were the two main parts of the Compromise of 1850 that made the North and South happy?

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Admission of California as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act

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What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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A law passed in 1854 allowing Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty.

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Who were the main leaders of the Women's Rights Movement in America?

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Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott