YISD MS SS 8th Civil War STAAR Released Part 1

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law.

• Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California.

• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C., slave markets.

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession.

Which of these directly resulted from the event announced in this headline?

• The abolitionist movement gained momentum in the North.

• Members of the U.S. Senate sought to end Black Codes in the southern states.

• The federal government allowed the expansion of slavery into all new western territories.

• Abolitionists moved to the South to avoid living under the new law.

Which statement best explains the charges shown in this table?

• 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.

This 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.

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.

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

Why did the Siege of Vicksburg affect the balance of power during the Civil War?

• Several important Confederate generals were killed.

• Union Troops were pushed back across the Ohio River.

• The Confederate territory was divided in half.

• Severe casualties were inflicted on Union forces.

Many historians argue that the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln changed the course of Reconstruction. Which of the following is usually cited as an aspect of that change?

• Radical Republicans took control of Congress.

• Congress imposed taxes on cotton imports to pay war debts.

• The Thirteenth Amendment was approved by Congress.

• Congress repealed legislation regulating railroad construction.

Which of the following completes this diagram?

• President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclomation

• The Thirteenth Amendment

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

• The Confederate defense of the besieged fort lengthened the war.

• The Union victory divided the Confederacy along the Mississippi River.

• The invasion of the Confederate capital resulted in the surrender of the Confederacy.

• The Confederate attack upon the Union fort initiated the war.