STAAR Review 2022

The Western region--

• had farming and rich people
• had plantations and slaves
• had rivers and industries
• had mining and railroads

Which event started the Civil War?

• Battle of Fredericksburg
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Appottamox Court House
• Fort Sumter

What is true about the Appomattox Court House?

• General Lee surrendered to General Grant

• Occurred in Virginia

• Lincoln got assassinated

• ended the Civil War

• The Union divides the Confederacy in two

During which battle did the Union take control of the Mississippi River?

• Fort Sumter
• Gettysburg
• Fredericksburg
• Vicksburg

Lincoln warned that the Constitution was based on the idea that "the Union is perpetual and that no state can lawfully get out of the Union (secede)."

• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

• Gettysburg Address
• Emancipation Proclamation
• 13th Amendment

The Emancipation Proclamation--

• Allowed African Americans to fight in the Union army

• Freed slaves only in the rebelling states (south)

• is the 13th amendment

• announced by Abraham Lincoln

• gave slaves land in the south

"...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain" and "that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

• Gettysburg Address
• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
• Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
• Emancipation Proclamation

Southern states needed to rebuild their economies and be re-admitted to the Union.

• Reconstruction Era

• Revolutionary Era

• Federalist Era

• Era of Good Feelings

DRED SCOTT V SANDFORD

• Violates the 14th amendment

• Slaves are not citizens

• Slaves are property

• state banks cannot tax federal banks

Which describe the Compromise of 1850?

• California becomes a free state

• includes the Fugitive Slave Act

• Occurred after the Mexican Cession

• Occurred after the Louisiana Purchase