Name:
Date:
Class:
Unit, Secession, Civil War, and Statehood- TEST- Study
Guide
Directions: Use the
following to prepare for your test.
Know the following terms:
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Underground railroad
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Insurrection
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strategy
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moderate
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Missouri Compromise
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sabotage
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blockade
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Platform
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Compromise of 1850
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treason
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capitol
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secede
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Popular Sovereignty
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martyr
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Proclamation
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mandate
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States’ rights
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ordinance
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cabinet
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strategy
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1.
Slavery existed in the U.S. Because of
______________ (crop)
2.
Southern State secession was a result of belief
in __________________ or a relatively weak National Government.
3.
Famous Civil War Generals from WV-
4.
WV officially became a state because of
President Lincoln's ____________________.
5.
Senator Waitman T. Willey summited an
application for statehood in the year ________.
6.
With the Missouri Compromise, __________ entered
the Union as a free state, to maintain the balance in congress, _____________
entered as a slave state.
7.
John Brown became a martyr to
__________________________.
8.
The compromise of 1850 gave the south a
_____________________________.
9.
Virginia, at first did not choose secession, but
changed its course when President Lincoln _______________________________________________.
10. Famous
Civil War Battles in WV were:
Argumentative Writing:
11. How
did John Brown's actions at Harpers Ferry lead to the creation of WV?
12. Why
did the Confederate army mostly abandon WV?
13. What
was “Lincoln's Dilemma” in creating a new state from VA?
