APUSH Chapter 12-15

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The subject of Charles Sumner's speech that led to his beating on the floor of Congress was

"Bleeding Kansas"

General Winfield Scott's nickname was

"Old Fuss and Feathers"

General Zackary Taylor's nickname was

"Rough and Ready"

Ulysses S Grant depended on this group for his presidential victory in 1868

African Americans

All of the following fought for Texas's independence from Mexico except

Andrew Jackson

Lee surrendered to Grant at

Appomattox Court House

A conflict between rival groups of lumbermen on the Maine-Canadian border

Aroostook War

The bloodiest day in the Civil War

Battle of Antietam

Zachary Taylor defeated Santa Anna at this battle

Battle of Buena Vista

This battle was the key to the Mississippi campaign

Battle of Fort Donelson

This battle remembered as the most one sided battle of the Civil War

Battle of Fredericksburg

The turning point in the Civil War

Battle of Gettysburg

Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at this battle

Battle of San Jacinto

This battle was fought near an abandoned Methodist church

Battle of Shiloh

The first significant battle of the Civil War took place

Bull Run

stated slave owners had the same constitutional protection of their property in the new territories as they had in their own states

Calhoun Resolutions

An agreement between Britain the US not to seek control over building a canal in Central America

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

They did not like Zachary Taylor and apposed slavery

Conscience Whigs

One of the major political scandals of the Grant presidency involved

Credit Mobilier

This caused a decline in grain exports contributing to the onset of the Panic of 1857

Crimean War

Who gave the "Seventh of March" speech?

Daniel Webster

Union naval commander who captured New Orleans

David Farragut

This legalized slavery in the new territories

Dred Scott Case

He introduced interchangeable parts

Eli Whitney

His invention took much of the production of clothing out of homes into factories

Elias Howe

This court case supported the suspension of writ of habeas corpus

Ex Parte Milligan

The President could use federal troops to suppress resistance to federal law through the

Force Act

The Civil War began on April 12, 1861 at

Fort Sumter

Conscience Whigs, Northern Democrats, and the abolitionist Liberty Party formed this party

Free Soil Party

In response to the Whig Party nomination of Zachary Taylor in 1848, many "conscience Whigs" fled the party, joined with antislavery Democrats, and formed the

Free Soil Party

They branded slavery "a great moral, social, and political evil"

Free Soil Party

This was the final act of Manifest Destiny

Gadsden Purchase

The Anaconda Plan was

General Winfield Scott's strategy for encircling and squeezing the South into submission

He wrote Sociology for the South, questions the principle of equal rights for "unequal men"

George Fitzhugh

This treaty gave the US the right to build a canal

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

He is called the "Great Compromiser"

Henry Clay

This act promotes settlement of the west

Homestead ACt

He exhorted Americans to "Go west, young man"

Horace Greely

The winner of the 1856 presidential election was

James Bunchanan

"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" was associated with

James Polk

The president of the Confederacy was

Jefferson Davis

Who of the following would have argued that "freedom is not possible without slavery"?

John C Calhoun

He proposed a series of amendments to bring reconciliation, but the attempt was a little too late

John Crittenden

He coined the term manifest destiny

John Louis O'Sullivan

Gold was found on his land leading to the 1849 gold rush

John Sutter

Which of the following slave states did not secede from the United States?

Kentucky

Buchanan's first challenge was to accept or reject

Lecompton Constitution

He promoted the idea of popular sovereignty

Lewis Cass

In the election of 1848, the idea of "popular sovereignty" was most closely identified with

Lewis Cass

South Carolina attacked Fort Sumter when

Lincoln announced his plan to peacefully resupply the fort

The Kansas-Nebraska Act proposed organizing two territories from

Louisiana Purchase

Succeeded because of the election of Abraham Lincoln

Lower South

the first black regiment

Massachusetts 54th Regiment

One of the major problems faced by Union armies during the campaigns of 1862 was

McClellan's relectance to fight

By going to war, the US gianed the territory labeled as the

Mexican Cession

He signed the Compromise of 1850 into law

Millard Fillmore

This act allowed the sale of federal land grants to build agricultural/technical collages

Morrill Land Grant Act

This organization was organized by Abolitionists and Free Soilers to aid the transportation of antislavery settlers to Kansas

New England and Emigrant Aid Company

The Oregon Territory consisted of

Oregon, Washington, British Columbia

This economic event greatly affected the North, not so much the South

Panic of 1857

the term manifest destiny refers to the belief that

Providence had destined the American continent to be dominated by the United States

The ones pushing for more reforms in the South in favor of African Americans were the

Radical Republicans

Founder of the Trancendentalists

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The destruction of the Whig Party led to the formation of the

Republican Party

Most former northern members of the American Party became

Republicans

Two Years before the Mast, which helped to encourage westward expansion, was written by

Richard Henry Dana

At the Battle of the Seven Days, Confederate armies prevented George McClellan from capturing which vital Southern city?

Richmond

The appointment of ________ to command Confederate armies in Virginia marked a turning point in the Civil War

Robert E Lee

He was the Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case

Roger Taney

He developed America's first textile mill

Samuel Slater

The Mexican commander who granted Texas independence from Mexico was

Santa Anna

He was the most successful empresario

Stephen Austin

He introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Stephen Douglas

The man most responsible for passing the Compromise of 1850 was

Stephen Douglas

In the "Freeport Doctrine"

Stephen Douglas suggested that the territories could maintain popular sovereignty by refusing to protect slavery there

Which of the following was not a border state?

Tennessee

Which of the following is true of Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial?

The Senate sat as a court to try Johnson on charges drawn up by the House

The Kansas and Nebraska Territories were organized for which of the following reasons?

To begin construction on an transcontinental railroad

Almost brought Britain into the war

Trent Affair

The emphasis of this book was the well-being of the slave family

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Introduced as a result of the Fugitive Slave Act

Underground Railroad

Which of the following was not a trail heading out west

Utah Trial

In the famous naval battle of 1861, the Northern Ship Monitor faced the Southern ironclad, the

Virginia

This treaty with Britain over the northern border of Maine and the border between Minnesota and Canada

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

the four-time invader of Central America and the self-proclaimed president of Nicaragua was

William Walker

the congressional act that opposed the extension of slavery into any territory ceded by Mexico was the

Wilmont Proviso

Proposed slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired from Mexico

Wilmot Proviso

General-in-Chief who developed the Anaconda Plan

Winfield Scott

He was the architect of the Anaconda Plan

Winfield Scott

This group proclaimed the providential hand of God in expansion

Young American Movement

The Mexican War's first phase was carried out by which of the following?

Zachary Taylor

The Ostend Manifesto was

a document in which the United States threatened to seize control of Cuba

One of the problems of the southern economy on the eve of the Civil War was

a lack of diversification

In 1850 southerners were most upset by the

admission of California as a free state

What does the word empresario mean?

agent

Southern whites regarded "Carpetbaggers" as

agents of an army of occupation

President Polk provoked a war with Mexico

all of these choices

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

all of these choices

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo

all of these choices

which of the following was not a reason Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

allow Southerners to join the North

the primary goal of President John Tyler was to

annex Texas

Which of the following was not a part of the Compromise of 1877?

appointment of a southern vice president

The filibusters of the 1840s and 1850s

attempted to acquire new territories in which to extend slavery

The Pacific Railway Act

authorized the building of a transcontinental railroad

Which was not a Northern military advantage over the South?

better commanding officers in the filed

The majority of southern Republican voters were

blacks

Slave states that did not succeed from the Union

border states

Organization of the Nebraska territory was necessary in order to

build a railroad across the area

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

called for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise

John Brown was noted for all of the following except

coining the phrase "the irrepressible conflict" to explain the coming of the Civil War

The most important crop in the south was

cotton

All of the following were northern advantages except

defensive war as a strategy

The main purpose of the KKK during Reconstruction was to

destroy the Republican Party in the South

California's population increased dramatically in the late 1840s due to the

discovery of gold

The Emancipation Proclamation

freed all slaves in rebel controlled territory

This was the most contentious party of Compromise of 1850

fugitive slave law

All of the following were part of the Fourteenth Amendment expect it

funded the Confederate war debt

The Confiscation acts

gave power to seize enemy property used to wage war against the United States

The Legal Tender Act created this currency

greenbacks

The process of cutting spiral grooves in a gun's barrel to impart a spi to the bullet

grinding

The Fourteenth Amendment did all of the following except

guarantee the Confederate debt

What did Matthew Perry do

he opened up the trade doors with Japan

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was

in retaliation for his opposition to congressional reconstruction

The Panic of 1857

increased hostility between northerners and southerners who disagreed over the tariff issue

The first Battle of Bull Run is most significant becasue

it was a wake-up call to the north that this war would be long and drawn out

ships with iron rams

larid rams

The destruction of the Whig Party

led to the formation of the Republican Party

Robert E Lee joined the Confederacy because he

loved his home state of Virginia and could not fight against it

Members of the Know-Nothing Party were all of the following except

middle-aged and elderly professional men

A member of a political group advocating or fighting for national independence, a strong nation government

nationalists

The major issue for the Know-Nothing Party was

nativism

The result of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was

outrage and fear throughout the South

The main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

oversee relations between former masters and slaves

The final act that destroed the Whigs as a national political party was the

passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

In the election of 1844, James K. Polk

promised to acquire Texas and Oregon

The violence in "Bleeding Kansas" involved clashes between

proslavery and antislavery groups

The most important social distinction in the south was

race

The Panic of 1873 was primarily caused by which industry?

railroad

The Morrill Tariff Act

raised tariff rates to increase revenue and protect American manufacturers

The "black codes"

reduced freedmen to a condition close to slaveryu

Which of the following was not part of the Compromise of 1850?

repeal of all existing fugitive slave laws

The Tenure of Office Act

required Senate approval before the president could remove a cabinet member

Radical Republicans objected to Lincoln's initial Reconstruction plan because it

restored the political rights of white men who had fought against the Union

Ulysses S Grant's presidency is known as an era of

scandal and corruption at all levels of government

"popular sovereignty" was the belief that

settlers to a territory should decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery

The central issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 was

slavery

Under the Missouri Compromise

slavery would be excluded in the new territory of Nebraska

This was the most important invention concerning the railroad industry

standard gauge

On the issue of slavery in the territories, John C. Calhoun asserted that

the Constitution protected the right of citizens to move from place to place and to take their property with them

In the 1830s and 1840s the arid plains of the west were known as

the Great American Desert

After serving four terms in the Illinois legislature and one term in Congress, Abraham Lincoln was propelled back into politics by the shock oft

the Kansas-Nebraska bill

What was the significance of Goliad?

the Mexican army executed 300 American prisoners

In the Dred Scott Decision, the Supreme Court argued all of the following except

the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction in the case

The Compromise of 1877 signified

the end of Reconstruction

During the Reconstruction period

the illiteracy rate among southern blacks was reduced significantly

On the issue of secession, most Northerners agreed that

the issue should be decided by the Supreme Court, not by the president

The Supreme Court case Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) involved

the kidnapping of fugitive slaves

The term Oregon fever refers to

the mass migration of thousands of farm families to the Northwest

The central theme of Uncle Tom's Cabin is

the tragedy of the breakup of families by slavery

The term "bayonet rule" refers to

the use of federal troops to support Republican state governments and black rights in the South

Which of the following best describes both militaries

they were always supplied well

Ulysses S Grant was guilty of

unwise appointments of public officials

In The Impending Crisis or the South, Hinton Rowan Helper

used statistics to demonstrate slavery weakened the south's economy

The main issue addressed by the 15th Amendment was

voting

The Union war effort was financed primarily by

war bonds

Anthony Burns

was a runaway slave arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act

In the election of 1848, Zachary Taylor carried southern states primarily because he

was a slaveholder

All of the following statements regarding the Fifteenth Amendment are true except it

was popular among northern women

The Dred Scott decision of the US Supreme Court involved a slave who

was suing for his freedom because his master had taken him into free territory

All of the following statements regarding Brigham Young are true expect he

was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

As promised the Deep South secede from the Union

when Abraham Lincoln was elected president

scalawags were

white, southern-born Republicans

This solved the Oregon dispute

49th parallel

What were the years of the Mexican American War?

1846-1848

This Amendment abolished slavery

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