Civil War - STAAR PREP - TEST

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Which era is represented by this photograph?

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Civil War

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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.

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

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

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Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states increased.

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What was the fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts? Options: Should the U.S. expand westward?, Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?, Should slave labor be allowed in new states?, Should states be able to secede from the Union?

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Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

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

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The abolitionist movement gained momentum in the North.

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Which statement best explains the changes shown in this table? Options: 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.

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Slaves from the Upper South were moved to the Lower South to work on cotton plantations.

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These 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.

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States in the lower South had more land devoted to plantations.

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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.

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Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.

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Which accomplishment could be added to this diagram? Options: 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

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Was appointed general in chief of the Union army during the Civil War

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Which outcome best completes this diagram? Options: American Revolution, Popular Sovereignty, Manifest Destiny, Civil War

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