Civil War and Reconstruction STAAR Review

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Why was the Battle of Vicksburg a strategic victory in the Civil War?

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The battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.

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What made the battles at Antietam and Gettysburg different from the other battles illustrated on this map?

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They were battles fought in Union territory.

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The Emancipation Proclamation announced what new Union policy:

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Freedom for all slaves in areas in rebellion against the United States

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Which of the following was a result of the Kansas Nebraska Act? Fighting broke out between pro and anti-slavery groups in Kansas, Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856, Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas, The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise in 1859 was extended further south

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Fighting broke out between pro and anti-slavery groups in Kansas

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Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant?

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A private home in Appomattox County, Virginia

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Who was the Civil War between? Options: North and South, Union and Confederacy, United States of America and Confederate States of America, All of the above

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All of the above

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What question had to be answered every time a state was added to the United States?

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Would they be a slave or free state?

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What law said that Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state and that any territory in the Louisiana Purchase above the 36'30" parallel would be a free state?

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Missouri Compromise

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What law said that California would be a free state, the slave trade was banned in Washington D.C., the Fugitive Slave Law was passed and that the rest of the Mexican Cession would decide on the issue of slavery with popular sovereignty?

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Compromise of 1850

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Why were Northerners opposed to the Fugitive Slave Act?

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It made them feel a part of the slave system