STAAR - Sectionalism and Civil War

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One advantage the Confederacy had over the Union during the Civil War was that Confederate forces had -

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knowledge of the terrain where most battles were fought

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Which economy and contributing factor best completes this table? Options: Large farms; slaves used for labor, cottage industry; mild weather that attracted immigrants, mining; metal ores and minerals, ranching; railroads to transport cattle to market

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mining; metal ores and minerals

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Why did the economies of western territories develop so differently from the economies of the Northeast and South?

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Western territories had inexpensive and abundant natural resources.

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Which statement best explains the changes shown in this table? Options: Slaves from the Upper South were moved to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations. The Upper South experienced an agricultural labor shortage in the antebellum period. Slaves were transferred from the Lower South to the Upper South to work in newly built factories. The Lower South lost population as settlers migrated west to establish new plantations.

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Slaves from the Upper South were moved to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations.

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These data could be used to support which conclusion? Gulf Coast states had to rely on steamboats to transport goods. States in the lower South had more land devoted to plantations. Border states had to import needed raw materials. States in the upper South were heavily industrialized.

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States in the lower South had more land devoted to plantations.

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Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854? Fighting broke out between pro-slavery 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 of 1820 was extended farther south.

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

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Which accomplishment could be added to this diagram? Commanded the U.S. military in the West during the Indian Wars, Led the Radical Republicans in Congress during Reconstruction., Was appointed general in chief of the Union army during the Civil War, Became Andrew Johnson's vice president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

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Was appointed general in chief of the Union army during the Civil War

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Which of the following completes this diagram? President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, The Gettysburg Address, The Emancipation Proclamation, The Thirteenth Amendment

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The Emancipation Proclamation

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How was the event depicted in this image significant to the Civil War?

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The Confederate attack upon the Union fort initiated the war.

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After General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, the main priority of the United States was to -

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implement a plan to bring Confederate states back into the Union