History Final

List Lincoln's questionable actions as president as he attempted to preserve the Union.

-banned several newspapers that spoke about the war -drafted white males

Booker T. Washington believed that this was the key to political and civil rights for African Americans.

Economic independence

In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to do what?

Foment a slave rebellion

What did President Lincoln promise in his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction?

For Reconstruction had rapid remission of Southern states to the union

What did people in South Carolina did when Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election?

Gave them a reason to secede from the union

One of the more surprising elements of John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and slavery involved this

Having an election of two presidents , one from the North and the other from the South

When elected president in 1825 , John Quincy Adams, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a "corrupt bargain" when he appointed this man to what political position?

He appointed Henry Clay as secretary of state

What was the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott decision in 1857?

He was a black slave not a citizen so he could not sue in federal court

What did Lincoln declare from the outset of the Civil War?

He wasn't fighting to free the black people

The steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of what inventor?

Henry Bessemer

Ulysses S. Grant was elected in the presidential election of 1868 for this reason.

His opponents chose a poor candidate for the presidency

As a theorist of warfare, General William T. Sherman believed in what strategy?

In a pioneer of a strategy of total warfare aimed at destroyed civilian morale

What happened to the Northern economy as a result of the Civil War?

It bread a millionaire class for the first time in American History

The election of 1844 was notable for what issue?

It brought the issue of slavery into politics

In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with this event.

It came with an attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders

Name one argument against annexing Texas to the United States.

It might give more power to support slavery

What was the greatest economic consequence of the transcontinental railroad network?

It united the nation into a single , integrated national market

List the technologies invented or improved by Thomas A. Edison.

Phonographs , telegraphs , telephone , electric lighting , fluoroscopes , kinetoscope , and many more

President Polk's claim that "American blood [had been shed] on the American soil" referred to news of this event.

Rio Grande

By the 1850s, the crusade for women's rights was eclipsed by what reform?

Abolitionism

.Besides serving immigrants and the poor in urban neighborhoods, settlement workers like Jane Addams and Florence Kelley did what other things?

Actively lobbied for social reforms like anti - sweatshop laws and child labor laws.

During the Civil War, African Americans were enlisted in the Civil War at what time?

After 812 when manpower was running low so they started accepting the blacks that volunteered

What did the Second Great Awakening promote?

American Religion

Why did the South believe that the British would come to its aid in the Civil War

Britain was dependent on the South's cotton

Proslavery whites defended the institution of slavery in what ways?

By using the constitution and bible to support it , and they used the fact that the institution converted to Christianity and stopped barbarism

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln had what effect?

Calamity for the south

What did Harriet Beecher Stowe intend to show in her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Cruelty

Compare the Democrats and the Republicans during the Gilded Age.

The Democrats and the Republicans during the Gilded Age and Democrats and the Republicans was political patronage

The most serious Confederate threat to the Union blockade came from what?

The Ironclad Merrimack

List the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.

The US to pay 15 million dollars for the cession of northern Mexico

The Union's defeat in battle at Bull Run in 1861 was better than a victory because ...

The defeat caused Northerns to face up to the reality of a long difficult war

Describe the economy and social structure of the postwar South.

The economy and social structure of the postwar South was devastated , banks and business closed because of inflation plus transported stopped.

Slavery's greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was what?

The enforce separation of slave families

Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when what happened?

The final federal troops were removed in 1877

Stephen A. Douglas's plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of this.

The missouri compromise

Define the principle of popular sovereignty.

The principle that the authority of state , and its government is created and sustained by consent of their people

Many Northern states passed personal liberty laws in response to the Compromise of 1850 for this reason.

The runaway slaves

The Southern cause was weakened by what concept?

The states rights that the confederacy possessed

The Freedmen's Bureau was established for what reasons?

To be a primitive welfare agency. They established it for those reasons because it provided food , clothing , and education

What was the main purpose of the Black Codes?

To ensure a stable labor supply

When did Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter?

When they found out that Lincoln ordered supplies sent to the fort

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in what events?

Withdraw from federal troops in South

What is a common misconception about the discovery of gold near Sutter's Mill, California, in 1848.

a lot of people went and got rich , this was a misconception because everyone did not get rich

European immigration to the South was discouraged for what economic reason?

competition with slave labor

The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed what rights?

confederate leaders from holding public office

Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held this as one of their founding ideals.

cooperative social and economic practices

The greatest hardship faced by the soldiers during the Civil War was what?

disease

The underlying basis for modern mass production was what invention?

interchangeable parts

Describe the purpose of the cult of domesticity.

it glorified the traditional role of women as homemakers

For what reason was tax-supported public education considered essential?

it was considered essential for social stability and democracy

The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called what?

nativism

New England reformer Dorothea Dix is most notable for her efforts on behalf of what reform?

prison and Asylum Reform

Who applauded the decision rendered in the Dred Scott case?

proslavery

Andrew Jackson and his supporters disliked the Bank of the United States for what reasons?

the bank put public services first , not profit

The Force Bill of 1833 provided for what presidential power?

the president could use the army and the navy to collect federal tariff duties

Why did the majority of southern whites own no slaves?

they could not afford the purchase price

The government of Mexico and the Americans who settled in Mexican-controlled Texas clashed over these issues.

they fought over immigration

When the Irish flocked to the United States in the 1840s, they stayed in the larger seaboard cities for what reason?

they were too poor to move west and buy land

What was the purpose behind the spoils system?

to reward political supporters with public

The dramatic growth of American cities between 1800 and 1860 resulted in what problems?

unsanitary conditions in many communities

Andrew Jackson's administration supported the removal of Native Americans from the eastern states for what reason?

whites wanted Indians land

Define the Underground Railroad

A freedom train where runaway slaves would stop in antislavery homes and experienced slaves like conductors would lead the ones they helped to Canada to no longer be slaves

The legal codes that established the system of segregation were called this.

Jim Crows Laws

What took place as a result of the introduction of the cotton gin?

Slavery was reinvigorated

When it was issued in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared free only those slaves where?

Slaves still in rebellion against ? States

List the goals of the Ku Klux Klan.

Support efforts to pass the Forces Acts of 1870 - 1871 , which would force blacks away from polls.

What was the Wilmot Proviso?

Symbolized the burning issue of slavery in territories

What did Stephen A. Douglas argue in his Freeport Doctrine, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Territorial legislatures could keep slavery out of the territories

The group that was instrumental in claiming Oregon for the United States was whom?

The American missionaries to the Indians