US - STAAR Review thru Civil War

**CIVIL WAR**

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Look at the graph provided. According to the graph, which side had the resource advantage during the Civil War?

• the Union had more resources

• the Confederacy had more resources

• the two sides had the same amount of resources

• that information is NOT on this graph

**CIVIL WAR**

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Midway through the war, President Abraham Lincoln issued a message of freedom for slaves in the south. This message weakened the Southern economy and gave the Union soldiers a moral reason to keep fighting. It was known as -

• the Emancipation Proclamation

• the Northwest Ordinance

• the Nullification Crisis

• the Compromise of 1850

**CIVIL WAR**

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Which of these Civil War battles was a turning point victory for the Union? [hint: General Grant was able to take control of the Mississippi River and divide the Confederacy in half]

• the Battle of Antietam

• the Battle of Vicksburg

• the Battle of Gettysburg

• the Battle of Bull Run

**CIVIL WAR**

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Where did the Civil War end? [hint: this is where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant]

• Washington D.C.

• San Antonio, Texas

• Appomattox Court House, Virginia

• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

**EXPLORATION**

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European countries sent explorers across the Atlantic Ocean to gain wealth [Spain found gold, France traded beaver fur]. They also sent explorers to the "new world" in order to -

• BOTH of these are correct

• expand their empires

• spread their religion and culture

**COLONIZATION**

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American colonists had to practice self-government in the "new world" [examples: Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Virginia House of Burgesses] because -

• there was great distance and slow communication from Great Britain

• Great Britain had told the colonies that they would become independent in 10 years

• the King of England trusted the colonists to make good decisions without his help

• NONE of these are correct

**REVOLUTION**

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In the Treaty of Paris, Great Britain agreed that -

• the United States was now an independent nation

• they would reduce the amount of taxes the American colonists had to pay

• the American colonists could elect representatives to serve in the British Parliament

• the American colonists could settle in lands west of the Mississippi River

**CONSTITUTION**

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The GREAT Compromise created a "bicameral" legislature with two chambers [one based on population and one with equal representation from every state]. The _?_?_?_ Compromise centered on the counting of slaves to determine a states' population.

• Three-Fifths

• Census

• Other Great

• Population Count

**EARLY REPUBLIC**

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In the early 1800s, the U.S. issued a warning to European countries that they should no longer colonize in the Western Hemisphere, nor should they interfere in the events that happen in the Western Hemisphere. Today, that warning is known as -

• the Washington Warning

• The Adams Act

• The Jefferson Law

• The Monroe Doctrine

**INDUSTRIALIZATION**

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*Irish ____ - cheap labor for factories and the railroad

*German / Swedish ____ - found fertile farmland

*Chinese ____ - worked on the Transcontinental Railroad

What word fits appropriately in all three blanks?

• immigrants

• abolitionists

• federalists

• children