AP U.S. History Unit 5

National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories was established by the

Dred Scott decision

The Ostend Manifesto, written during the Pierce administration, suggested the United States might be justified in acquiring

Cuba

The man who opened Japan to trade with the United States was

Matthew Perry

The group most likely to oppose Lincoln's plan consisted primarily of

Radical Republicans

Between July 1 and 3, 1863, the Union army scored a major victory over Gen. Lee and the Confederacy at the turning point battle located at the Pennsylvania town of

Vicksburg

The political and legal status of the former confederate states was

a serious constitutional question following the Civil War

In the 1844 presidential election James K. Polk campaigns on

adding the Texas, Oregon, and Mexican Cession territory

In the case Ex Parte Milligan, the Supreme Court ruled that

civilians could not be brought to trial before military tribunals

The sentiments expressed in the proclamation would have been most widely condemned by White residents of

coastal South Carolina

James Gadsden orchestrated the purchasing of Mexican territory in 1853 primarily for the purpose of

constructing a southern transcontinental railroad

The group in the North most dangerous to the Union cause was the

copperheads

Following the Civil War, the majority of freedmen

entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters

The Battle of Antietam is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it

forestalled the possibility of European intervention

In part, President Lincoln refrained from taking action to emancipate the slaves until the Civil War had been in progress for almost two years because

he sought to maintain loyalty from the border states

Harriet Tubman gained fame by

helping slaves to escape to Canada

The Confederacy economically countered the Anaconda plan by

hiring blockade runners

Lincoln's Emancipation proclamation abolished slavery

in the unconquered Confederacy

The Free Soilers condemned slavery because

it destroyed the chance of free whites to own property and become self employed

Southern apologists used the Bible to (incorrectly)

justify slavery

The North's advantages over the South at the beginning of the Civil War was

more substantial industrial resources, more extensive railroad networks, and naval supremacy

The majority of white families in the Antebellum South owned

no slaves

"The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there" is in line with the principle of

popular soverignty

The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly

produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry

In the presidential campaign of 1860, the Republican party's platform (regarding slavery) was in favor of

prohibiting the extension of slavery in US territories by the federal government but that slavery should be protected in states where it already existed

In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with

protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves

The Compromise of 1850

provided for the admission of California as a free state, created a stricter fugitive slave law, and stipulated that land in dispute between Texas and New Mexico should be ceded to New Mexico

After the Civil War, the Freedman's Bureau had its greatest success in

providing education opportunities for former slaves

The Kansas-Nebraska Act heightened the sectional crisis because it

repealed the Missouri Compromise

The primary objective of the founders of the Know-Nothing Party or American Party was the

restriction on immigration and immigrant rights

The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 directly led to the

secession of Southern states

Lincoln's Plan for reconstruction was known as

the 10% Plan

Slavery was legally abolished in the United States by

the 13th Amendment

Manifest Destiny increased division between

the North and South because of it arose questions about the status of slavery in the new territories

The controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated

the deep differences between Lincoln and Congress

The slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight" had to do with

the demand for annexation of Oregon to the southern border of Alaska

The Emancipation Proclamation allowed for

the enlistment of black soldiers into the Union army

The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for

the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War

Thaddeus Stevens and other Radical Republicans believed

the rebellious states should undergo widespread political and social changes

The concept of more democratic government during Reconstruction most closely resembles

the removal of property requirements for voting during the Jacksonian Era

After the attack on Fort Sumter,

the states of (?) joined the Confederacy

The Anaconda Plan's success in dividing the south and cutting off trade routes was aided most by

the victory at Vicksburg

Sectional tensions over slavery caused

there to be violence even on the floor of Congress