apush period 5 questions
Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
After 1863, which of the following most fulfilled the "new birth of freedom" that the excerpt refers to?
The Fourteenth Amendment
Which of the following invalidated the decision in the excerpt?
experienced increasing tension over the issue of slavery
A significant result of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 was that the United States
The passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), which limited rights for foreign-born residents
Anti-immigrant nativism of the 1840s and 1850s had the most in common with which of the following earlier developments?
Southern states sought more proslavery seats in the United States Congress.
Evidence in the excerpt best corroborates which of the following broader historical contexts?
Southern politicians would not abandon slavery, and they believed Lincoln was a threat to that system.
Evidence in the excerpt best corroborates which of the following?
Political responses to changing demographics in the United States
Historians could best use the excerpt as an example of which of the following?
gain continued support for the war effort
Lincoln's main purpose in the excerpt was to
experienced military leadership
On the eve of the Civil War, the South enjoyed an advantage over the North in
Irish immigrants
Prior to the Civil War, a transformation occurred in the workforce of the New England textile mills as New England farm girls were replaced by
halted the last major Confederate invasion of the North
The Union's victory at Gettysburg was significant because it
The Confederacy relied more heavily on agricultural workers to fill its armies than did the Union.
The data in the first table most directly indicate which of the following about the professions of soldiers in the Civil War?
Westward expansion
The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following developments in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?
The political and legal status of the former Confederate states
Which of the following was a serious constitutional question after the Civil War?
The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election.
Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?
increased sectional discord, accompanied by the growing failure of compromise
In the first half of the nineteenth century, a major consequence of United States expansionism was
His advocacy for African American equal rights
Douglass' rhetoric in the excerpt was most likely interpreted as promoting which of the following?
African Americans' voting rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment
In the late nineteenth century, state governments in the South were largely successful in restricting
Manifest Destiny
In the mid-nineteenth century, the process shown in the map was advocated by supporters of which of the following ideologies?
fewer European immigrants
In the 1850's, the South differed from the North in that the South had
Manifest Destiny
Which of the following ideas contributed most directly to the territorial changes shown in the map?
preserve the Union
In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to
protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves
In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with
The attempts by the federal government to foster economic opportunities for former slaves after the Civil War
The policies advocated by Marshall had most in common with which of the following developments in other periods in United States history?
The belief that it was the Manifest Destiny of the United States to control territory across the continent
The population trend described in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following domestic developments in the nineteenth century?
The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters.
Which of the following best describes the situation of freedom in the decade following the Civil War?
Shared sacrifice would help advance African American men's claims to United States citizenship.
Which of the following best explains Douglass' point of view in the excerpt?
Efforts to change southern racial attitudes and culture ultimately failed because of the South's determined resistance and the North's waning resolve.
Which of the following best explains the reason for the reconciliation described by Blight?
Whitman argued that the war was intended to deter bad behavior, while Giddings argued that the war represented aggression by the United States.
Which of the following comparisons best describes Whitman's and Giddings' arguments about the Mexican-American War?
The expansion of railroads made the Great Plains more accessible.
Which of the following contributed most significantly to a surge in western settlement during the 1860s and 1870s?
Rable asserts that violence in the South achieved its political goals during Reconstruction, whereas Foner asserts that this violence was suppressed at the time.
Which of the following describes a difference between Rable's and Foner's arguments in the excerpts?
The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law
Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850's?
The intensification of regional differences between labor systems
The disagreements expressed in the two excerpts most directly reflect which of the following?
slaves lived better than northern factory workers
The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that
Possession of California and most of the Southwest
The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ?
the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for
allowing slavery in the new territories
The acquisition of territory in the southwestern region shown in the map intensified controversies in the United States about
ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment
The issue being debated in the two excerpts was most directly resolved by the
the Mexican-American War
The territorial changes shown in the southwestern region of the map most directly resulted from
States' rights should be secured from federal interference.
The views expressed by Fitzhugh would have been most likely to align with which of the following arguments?
The founding of the Republican Party
Those who agreed with the views expressed in the excerpt by Weld would most likely have supported which of the following subsequent developments?
He believed that Reconstruction was an executive branch matter and sought the rapid restoration of the former Confederate states to the Union.
Which of the following statements best summarizes the views of Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction?
The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.
Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty?"
Ireland
Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?
the draft riots in New York City
The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in
Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new territories
The trend shown in the map led most directly to which of the following?
strengthen the moral cause of the Union
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to
Establishment of a public school system
Which of the following achievements of the "carpetbag" governments survived the "Redeemer" administrations?
The federal government removed troops from the South and eliminated aid for former slaves.
Which of the following best characterizes the "sectional reunion" Blight describes?
They were willing to accept slavery where it existed but opposed further expansion to the territories.
Which of the following best describes the position on slavery of most northerners during the sectional crises of the 1850s?
Growing concern about the political and cultural influence of Catholic immigrants
Which of the following could best be used as evidence to support the argument in the excerpt that "ethnic conflict among whites rivaled sectional conflict as a major political issue" of the period?
Democrats dominated the Southern states after suppressing African American voting rights.
Which of the following developments could best be used as evidence to support Stevens' claim about African American suffrage in the last paragraph of the excerpt?
The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Which of the following developments from the 1800s emerged from ideas most similar to those expressed in the excerpt?
The ratification of constitutional amendments during Reconstruction
Which of the following developments would the author have been most likely to use to support his assertion that African Americans had joined the United States "national family"?
Congress voted to end the interstate slave trade.
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the perception of many White Southerners that antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s?
The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson
Which of the following events best represents a continuity of the sentiments expressed by Senator Calhoun in the speech?
The Mexican-American War incorporated extensive new lands into the United States.
Which of the following factors best explains the territorial expansion of slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century?
Greater population and industrial development
Which of the following factors can best be used to explain the Union victory in the Civil War?
The Union victory in the Civil War led to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Which of the following factors contributed most directly to the end of slavery in the United States?
The rise in immigration to the United States
Which of the following historical situations can best be used to explain how the excerpt would have been interpreted at the time?
Both focus on many Southerners' opposition to racial equality.
Which of the following is a similarity between Rable's and Foner's arguments in the excerpts?
Both sought to justify their positions to international observers.
Which of the following is a similarity between how Whitman and Giddings made their arguments?
Crop failures and revolutions in Europe
Which of the following most directly contributed to "the sharp increase of immigration after 1845" referenced in the excerpt?
Disagreements over whether to allow slavery in new territories
Which of the following most directly contributed to the conflict referred to in the excerpt?
The desire for international trade and access to global markets
Which of the following most directly contributed to the request expressed in the excerpt?
Southern Democrats
Which of the following most likely supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?
After 1877 Democrats in the South legislated restrictions on the ability of African Americans to vote.
Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to modify Foner's main argument in the second excerpt?
The creation of schools by the Freedmen's Bureau for formerly enslaved people.
Which of the following pieces of evidence could best be used to refute Stevens' claim in the excerpt that the Union had done little for formerly enslaved people by 1867?
National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories.
Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?
It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.
Which of the following statement about the Dred Scott decision is correct?
For most of the war, they were paid less than White soldiers of equal rank.
Which of the following statements about African American soldiers during the Civil War is correct?
Dorothea Dix
Which of the following was LEAST involved in the struggle for women's rights?
The belief in White cultural and political superiority
Which of the following was a common justification in the United States for the trend depicted in the map?
A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers
Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?
Support grew for the Republican Party.
Which of the following was the most immediate result of the decision in the excerpt?
Conflict over the future of slavery
Which of the following was the most significant impact of the South's expansion described in the excerpt?
A New England abolitionist
Which of the following would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Proslavery arguments
Based on the excerpt, Calhoun would also be most likely to support which of the following?
States in the South had begun seceding after the presidential election.
The excerpt most likely reflects which of the following historical situations
The United States desired to expand slavery to Mexican territory.
Based on their arguments in the excerpts, Giddings would likely agree with and Whitman would likely disagree with which of the following claims about the causes of the Mexican-American War?
massive exodus of former slaves from the South
All of the following led Congress to impose Radical Reconstruction measured EXCEPT the
Southern resistance hindered Reconstruction.
Based on their arguments in the excerpts, both Rable and Foner would most likely agree with which of the following claims?
The secession of most Southern states
Arguments similar to those expressed in the excerpt were later employed to justify which of the following?
there were relatively few slaves or large plantations in these regions
At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, pro-Union sentiment was strong in western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina primarily because
Missouri Compromise
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery
Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT
The war was no longer just about preserving the union of the states.
Ideas expressed by Douglass in the excerpt were most likely interpreted as supporting which of the following arguments?
the abolition of slavery throughout the United States
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT
restrictions on Catholics' holding public office
Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported
establishment of a constitutional basis for citizenship and voting rights
One key change immediately following the Civil War aimed at achieving the "racial justice" that Blight describes was the
The creation of diplomatic ties with foreign nations
Sentiments of business leaders and politicians like that expressed in the excerpt most likely contributed to which of the following?
Confederate armies lost a greater proportion of its soldiers than did the Union.
Source: Adapted from James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988). The data in the tables indicate which of the following?
It held that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.
The United States Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) represented a departure from earlier practices in which of the following ways?
allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to
forestalled the possibility of European intervention
The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it
place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people
The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to
Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law.
The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?
the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
that suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established
The Missouri Compromise in 1820
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to which of the following earlier legislative initiatives?
a critique of Reconstruction
The cartoon above is intended to express
The period from after the First World War through the 1920s
The conflict described in the excerpt is most similar to conflict in what other period?
The Union had a larger and more diverse population of workers to enlist from than did the Confederacy.
The data in the tables most likely indicate which of the following?
The Missouri Compromise
The decision in the excerpt held which of the following to be unconstitutional?
Popular support for the idea of Manifest Destiny
The excerpt best reflects which of the following developments?
Congressional leaders sought political compromise to resolve discord between the North and the South.
The excerpt best reflects which of the following historical situations?
Lincoln sought to avoid violence over the issues that divided the country.
The excerpt best serves as evidence for which of the following developments?
was willing to intimidate Asian countries like Japan to secure economic opportunities
The excerpt best supports the conclusion that in the 1850s, the United States government
Kansas
The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in
return freed slaves to Africa
The goal of the American Colonization society was to
Involvement in the Spanish-American War
The ideology that supported the trend depicted in the map is most similar to the ideology that supported which of the following?
Increasing the visibility of organized opposition to slavery
The issuing of documents such as the proclamation generally had which of the following effects?
Nativist sentiment
The language in the excerpt was most likely interpreted as promoting which of the following?
the formation of a political party that promoted nativism
The pattern depicted in the graph in the first half of the nineteenth century most directly resulted in
The acquisition of new territories created disputes over the expansion of slavery.
The position expressed by Clay in the excerpt best serves as evidence of which of the following?
restriction of the rights of immigrants
The primary objective of the founders of the Know-Nothing party was the
The failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tensions
The proclamation most clearly provides evidence for which of the following?
Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford
The provision above overturned the
coastal South Carolina
The sentiments expressed in the proclamation would have been most widely condemned by White residents of
The Civil War
The statement above refers to conscription during which conflict?
