8th grade SS TAKS Review
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| The 1st battle of the Civil War | What is Fort Sumter?
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| Siege that split the south in half | What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
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| The bloodiest battle in all of American history | What is the Battle of Antietam?
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| Battle which secured almost all of the Mississippi River for the Union | What is the Battle of New Orleans?
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| Naval duel in which neither ship could defeat the other | What is the Monitor vs. Merrimack?
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| President during the Civil War | Who was Abraham Lincoln?
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| Commander of the Union army | Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
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| President of the Confederacy | Who was Jefferson Davis?
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| Commander of the Confederate army | Who was Robert E. Lee?
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| Black person who urged Lincoln to make the Civil War a war against slavery | Who was Frederick Douglass?
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| Lincoln’s speech commemorating the people who died at Gettysburg | What is the Gettysburg Address?
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| Union general who was almost fired for the Union deaths in battle | Who was General Ulysses S. Grant?
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| The main source of income for the Confederacy | What is cotton?
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| Plan that called for a blockade of the South | What was the Anaconda Plan?
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| The idea that caused the South to secede | What is States’ Rights?
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| December 20 1860 | When did South Carolina secede?
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| 1861-1865 | When was the Civil War?
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| April 9 1865 | When did Lee surrender?
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| Speech on November 19 1863 | When did Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address?
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| Battle on July 4 1863 | When was the Siege of Vicksburg?
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| Freed some slaves and was considered to be a military action | What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
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| Laws in 1862 and 1863 that required people to serve in the military | What were the Draft Laws?
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| Banned slavery everywhere in the U.S. | What is the 13th Amendment?
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| 1861 tax on workers’ earnings | What is income tax?
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| Where Lee surrendered to Grant | What is Appomattox Court House?
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