Study Guide for the test on Dec. 17

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Unit, Secession, Civil War, and Statehood- TEST- Study Guide

 

Directions:  Use the following to prepare for your test.

 

Know the following terms:

Underground railroad	Insurrection	strategy	moderate
Missouri Compromise	sabotage	blockade	Platform
Compromise of 1850	treason	capitol	secede
Popular Sovereignty	martyr	Proclamation	mandate
States’ rights	ordinance	cabinet	strategy

 

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?