Test Corrections - Civil War & Reconstruction

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This 1857 ruling declared slaves are property and not citizens therefore they had no rights.

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Dred Scott v Sandford

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What is the name for people who wanted to put an end to slavery?

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Abolitionists

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What battle was the single, bloodiest day in the Civil War?

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Antietam

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This was the first battle of the Civil War. Confederate troops fired upon Union troops at...

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Fort Sumter

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What was the official name of the south during the Civil War?

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Confederate States of America

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Which battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?

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Battle of Gettysburg

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Which statement best describes how the economic systems of the North and South rely on each other? The North grew the food that the Southern slaves ate, The South produced the iron used to build the Northern railroads, The South grew the cotton and the North turned it into fabric in their factories, The North sent the skilled laborers and immigrants to the South to help build its railroads and plantations

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The South grew the cotton and the North turned it into fabric in their factories

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The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

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settle disputes over the spread of slavery to western territories

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Which part of the Compromise of 1850 created the most controversy? Options: the admission of California as a free state, the organization of New Mexico and Utah as territories open to slavery, the ending of the slave trade in Washington, D.C., the passage of a strong fugitive slave law to return runaway slaves to their owners

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the passage of a strong fugitive slave law to return runaway slaves to their owners

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What was the purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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to allow the citizens to decide if a state would be a free state or a slave state