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8th STAAR Era 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the social movement to end slavery, led by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth and William Lloyd Garrison? | abolition |
| Led by Horace Mann, what movement led to free public schools in the north? | Education |
| What is the social movement where workers began to go on strike and form unions to get better wages, hours and conditions? | labor |
| What movement sought the equal treatment of women, including suffrage? | women's rights |
| What social movement called to stop drinking alcohol? | temperance |
| Which region had already outlawed slavery prior to the Civil War? | north |
| What was the abolitionist newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison? | The Liberator |
| Who is the escaped slave who led others to freedom on the Underground Railroad, and was referred to as "Moses"? | Harriet Tubman |
| Which two abolitionists had escaped slavery, and toured the nation speaking for abolition? | Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth |
| Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which portrayed the horrors of slavery and helped spark the Civil War? | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| What event in 1832 increased sectional conflicts between the North and South over tariffs? | Nullification Crisis |
| What was the conflict from 1854 to 1859 between pro and anti-slavery people? | Bleeding Kansas |
| What compromise in 1820 preserved the balance of free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state? | Missouri Compromise |
| What allowed popular sovereignty on the slavery issue in Kansas and Nebraska? | Kansas and Nebraska Act |
| Who led the women's rights movement for suffrage? | Susan B. Anthony |
| What was the women's rights movement in New York? | Seneca Falls |
| Who authored a declaration of women's rights, and helped organize the Seneca Falls convention with Lucretia Mott? | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| What area did Dorothea Dix fight for reform in? | the mentally ill |
| What was the religious movement that help begin the era of reform? | Second Great Awakening |
| What was the group of artists who painted landscapes? | The Hudson River School |
| Who was John James Audubon? | painter of birds; most comprehensive study on American birds |
| When was the Civil War? | 1861-1865 |
| Why did the first 7 states secede? | Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, was elected POTUS |
| Who was the President of the Confederate States of America? | Jefferson Davis |
| Who was the commander of the Union Army, and future POTUS? He accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Confederate general who won early victories, but lost the Battle of Antietam and Gettysburg was? | Robert E. Lee |
| What was the Emancipation Proclamation? | document issued by Lincoln in 1863 that freed the slaves in the Confederacy (although in reality, it freed few) |
| First battle of the Civil War? | Fort Sumter |
| What was the single bloodiest battle? | Antietam |
| What battle did Lincoln give a famous speech for, stating that the USA was worth fighting for? | Gettysburg |
| Where did Lee surrender? | Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia |
| What was the process for admitting the southern states back into the US after the Civil War? | Reconstruction; 1865-1877 |
| What was the 10% Plan? | presidential reconstruction plan, where 10% of a state's population had to take an oath to the US, and the state had to adopt the 13th amendment |
| Who wanted to use the federal government to impose a new order on the South and grant citizenship to former slaves? | Radical republicans |
| Which amendment freed the slaves? | 13th |
| Which amendment granted citizenship to freed slaves, as well as protects the rights of all citizens, born or naturalized | 14th |
| Which amendment granted voting rights to African American males? | 15th |
| Who was the first African American to be elected to the U.S. senate? | Hiram Rhodes Revels |
| Who was the naval fighter who won the Congressional medal of honor? | Philip Bazaar |
| What was the cause of the Civil War? | states' rights over slavery, tariffs, secession.... |
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