8TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES STAAR REVIEW Part 2

This was a law that a person could claim up to 160 acres of land in the west.

Who shot and killed Abe Lincoln?

What is a refusal to buy certain goods?

What was the conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in Kansas?

What established the idea of judicial review?

Who was the first state to secede from the Union?

What was the agency that helped freed slaves with money, education, houses.

What were the years of the Civil War?

Who was the General of the Union during the Civil War?

Who was the first black elected to the United States Senate?

What is the bloodiest day of war in the history of the United States?

What contradicted the Missouri Compromise by letting popular sovereignty determine slavery?

Who wrote an abolitionist newspaper that was called "The Liberator?"

The number of representatives would be the same for each state.

What is a northerner who went to the south after the Civil War?

What stated that slavery would not be allowed north of the border of Missouri?

Under this court case slaves were considered property, not citizens of the United States?

This established government for the Northwest Territory & described how to become a state.

What is when goods are prevented out of an area by blocking trade?

Who was the first African American to win the Medal of Honor?

What was the south thinking they could ignore federal laws and secede from the Union?

Where was the first battle of the Civil War?

Who was General of the South during the Civil War?

What says each state would have a different number of representatives based on population?

What said slavery in the Mexican Cession would be determined by voting & set the Texas border?

What amendment made all former slaves citizens of the United States?

Who won the Civil War and where did the losing side surrender?

What was the worse battle as far as deaths is concerned during the Civil War?

Who led a raid at Harper's Ferry that put fear into slave owners everywhere?

This act established agricultural universities such as Texas A&M University.

What created a bi-cameral legislature by combining the New Jersey and Virgina Plan?

Worcestor vs. Georgia is when Georgia sued to keep their land so Jackson let them stay.

Seperate but Equal court case.

What was the idea that a state government could ignore a federal law and secede?

What was a speech given by Abe Lincoln that honored Union soldiers who gave their life?

What was the process of re-admitting southern states to the union?

What can be defined as loyalty to one region or section of a country instead of a whole nation?

What amendment freed all the slaves and abolished slavery?

What was the railroad line that linked the well developed east coast with growing California?

Who was elected in 1860 that caused Southern states to start seceding from the Union?

What battle gave the North control of the Mississippi River?

What is known as the right to vote?

Judicial review determines the constitutionality of a law.

Who's invention led to the mass production of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?

Who wrote the novel that depicted slavery in the south & increased the number of abolitionist?

What was the effort by many individuals in the United States to end slavery?

Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?

What amendment allowed men regardless of race or color the right to vote?

Dred Scott vs. Sanford claimed that all African Americans were citizens of the U.S.