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History Study Guide Test

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The Gadsden Purchase ___
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How did Radical Reconstruction affect African Americans' lives?
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In 1863 food shortages in the South led to ___.
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Ulysses S. Grant's assault on Robert E. Lee's armies at ___ failed to capture the Confederacy's vital supply center and resulted in the longest siege in American warfare. Grant sieged the city for 292 days which ultimately cost the South the war.
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The first state to secede from the Union was ___.
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The largest group in the wave of immigrants that swept into the United States between 1815 and 1860 came from ___.
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In the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, what was Scott's claim?
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Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?
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Lacking sufficient money from taxes or bonds, the Confederacy was forced to print paper money to pay its bills, causing rapid ___.
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How did President Lincoln plan to cut off the South's trade with Europe?
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Who was Clara Barton?
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When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?
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Why did Lincoln promote Ulysses S. Grant to general in chief of the Union Army?
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The effort to rebuild the South after the Civil War is referred to as ___.
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Why were the Cherokee considered to be a "civilized" Native American tribe?
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What was the unintended result of the Fugitive Slave Act?
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Which event leads to the U.S. declaring war on Mexico?
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The Battle of ___, the deadliest one-day battle in American history, showed that the Union could defeat the Confederates. It also gave President Lincoln the confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation at a moment of strength instead of desperation.
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Why was it necessary to pass the Thirteenth Amendment after the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued?
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Under Mexican rule the main appeal Texas held for American settlers was ___.
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it made Northerners angry
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a Civil War nurse who formed the Red Cross
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by installing a blockade
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that he was a free man
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the Mexican attack at Palo Alto
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Antietam
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it gave them more rights
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riots
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cheap land
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it freed slaves everywhere
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bought land from Mexico
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Petersburg
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inflation
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they had assimilated into white culture
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primarily Ireland, as well as Germany
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South Carolina
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Appomattox Courthouse
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Reconstruction
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he had won many battles
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to preserve the Union
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A free person of color could be falsely taken into custody under the terms of the ___.
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Which abolitionist once said that to the American s;ave the Fourth of July is "a day that reveals to him...the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim"?
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The Battle of ___ marked the official beginning of the American Civil War. This Confederate victory was due to Union major Robert Anderson surrendering from exhaustion and outnumbered troops. After, both the North and South called for volunteers for war.
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During the 1870s, to help former slaves, Reconstruction governments in the South built a comprehensive public ___.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided for ___.
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__ prevented Congress from hearing abolitionist petitions to end slavery.
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In order to prevent people from supporting the Confederacy or resisting the draft, President Lincoln did which of the following?
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The Battle of ___ marked the turning point of the Civil War. With more than 50,000 estimated casualties, the three-day engagement was the bloodiest single battle of the conflict. The Confederate Army lost this battle after the failure of Pickett's Charge.
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What effect did the invention of conoidal bullets (minie ball) have on the war?
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Grant and Sherman's strategy of total war targeted not only the Confederate army but also ___.

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