STAAR Blitz Day 5 Warm Up

Match the following

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• Ruled Slaves were property and not citizens

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• North and South agreed; California became a free state but a strict Fugitive Slave Law passed

• Sectionalism

• Geography caused country to develop economic differences

• Compromise of 1850

• Attempted to solve the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty, violence erupted as a result of the law

Why did Southern states support states' rights?

• The population of the South believed that each state was its own country

• Southerners did not want the federal government to abolish slavery because it was not in their interests

• The Southern states wanted to own the rights to all railroad tracks in their state

• Many Southerners disagreed on the issue of women's suffrage

Which region's primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?

How did President Abraham Lincoln react to the idea expressed in Jefferson Davis's inaugural address?

• Lincoln stated that the argument by the South to leave the Union was unjustified

• Lincoln called on the U.S. Supreme Court to make a ruling on the legality of secession

• Lincoln believed the reasoning to leave the Union was protected by the Constitution

• Lincoln prepared to amend the Constitution to appease the Southern States

What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• The Republican Party lost influence in the federal legislature

• The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal courts

• Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states increased

• Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western territories

Match the following

• Battle of Antietam

• The Union captured the Mississippi River and divided the Country in half

• Appomattox Court House

• Location where the Confederacy surrendered to the Union, ended the Civil War

• Battle of Vicksburg

• Deadliest single-day battle of the war, showed Union could stand against the Confederacy

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Turning point of the Civil War, ended any further advancement of the Confederacy

The best selection to complete blank 5 is-

• provide suffrage to African American men

• establish the Freedman's Bureau in the South

• abolish the practice of slavery

The best selection to complete box 6 is-

• land grants

• military drafts

• poll taxes

A historian is writing an article for a history website. The article is divided into the following topics:

• * The division of the South into military districts

• * The impeachment of the President

• * The ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

Which era in U.S. history is the focus on the Article?

• The Jacksonian Era

• The Antebellum Era

• The Federalist Era

• The Reconstruction Era

How did sharecropping affect farmers in the South during Reconstruction?

• By introducing new technology for growing food

• By expanding the region's dependence on corn production

• By making landowners buy supplies from the government

• By keeping renters in debt to landlords