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Civil War Test Review

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    grade 8 Civil War review - vocab, causes, major events
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  • What was the period after the Civil War called?
    Reconstruction
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  • An abolitionist is...
    a person who wanted to end slavery.
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  • The imaginary line dividing free states from slave states is called the...
    Mason-Dixon Line
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  • Which Supreme Court case declared that slaves did not have the same human rights as other citizens?
    Dred Scott case
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  • T or F: The Fugitive Slave Act made it illegal for Southern plantation owners to hunt for their escaped slaves.
    F - It made it illegal for Northerners to help runaway slaves escape.
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  • What is popular sovereignty?
    States had the right to vote for whether or not they wanted to have slaves
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  • Name one of the new technologies Lincoln used to help his army win the war.
    Telegraph or railroad
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  • Which Amendment ended slavery in the U.S.?
    13th
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  • States that allowed slavery but did NOT join the Southern states when they seceded were called
    Border States
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  • Being more loyal to one's own region of the country rather than to the whole country is called...
    Sectionalism
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  • The Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River was called the...
    Anaconda Plan
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  • A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields is called...
    Total War
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  • What was the main purpose of Lincoln's Gettysburg address?
    To dedicate the battlefield as a final resting place for soldiers who fought on both sides. He told Americans to finish the fight and solve the conflict.
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  • Where does General Lee surrender to General Grant?
    Appomattox Court House, Virginia
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  • T or F: The North had more railroads, cities, and factories than the South.
    T
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  • Why did Reconstruction fail?
    Lack of government funding, white Southerners resist change
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