period 5

The faction of Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War became known as the

Copperheads

the logic and reasoning employed by the Southerners in seceding from the Union borrowed heavily from the

Declaration of Independence

in the above passage, Emerson is critical of which act as being "this filthy enactment"?

Federal law requiring states to assist in the capture and return of slaves

which of the following refers to the Southern culture of segregation that existed for almost a century after the Civil War?

Jim Crow

the belief that the United States had a special mission to expand over the entire North American continent was known as

Manifest Destiny

The most immediate result of Lincoln's election in 1860 was that

South Carolina seceded from the Union

Which of the following was NOT a result or consequence of the Dred Scott decision of 1857?

The Fugitive Slave Act was repealed

which of the following was NOT a result of the Civil War?

The South became the industrial center of the nation by 1877

The term "redemption" as used in the Reconstruction era refers to

The post-Reconstruction return of the South to white rule

who advocated for the immediate and uncompensated release of all slaves held in the United States?

William Lloyd Garrison

The Mexican-American war and its aftermath led most directly to which of the following?

a northern majority in the legislative branch

As a result of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852,

abolitionism gained ground in the North

the act referenced above was part of a compromise to

allow California to enter the Union as a free state

the ultimate consequence of the sharecropping system for the South was

an increase in poverty for both blacks and whites

The Wilmot Proviso

called for American annexation of lands conquered from Mexico as free territory

all of the following were major elements of the Union strategy for victory in the Civil War EXCEPT

destroying the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia

A central element in the conquest and submission of the American Indians of the West was the

destruction of the buffalo herds

In terms of politics, the 1850s were noteworthy because they witnessed the

dissolution of national political parties over sectional concerns

With regard to the Oregon Territory, in 1846, the United States

hammered out a compromise agreement with the British Empire

Which of the following was the MOST important reason why immigrants tended to cluster in ethnic communities in urban areas during the antebellum period?

it allowed immigrants to retain their languages and customs to a greater degree

the Emancipation Proclamation had which of the following effects?

it prevented England and France from joining the conflict

The Republican Party platform of 1860 was an indication that the party

maintained the fundamental principles on which it was founded

The Republican Party platform of 1860 attempted to broaden its appeal to include

northern manufacturing interests

The theory that individual states do not necessarily have to carry out any federal laws with which they disagree is known as

nullification

At the outset of the war, which of the following was the greatest advantage possessed by the Confederacy?

powerful foreign allies

The Emancipation Proclamation was most designed to

prevent a British alliance with the Confederacy

The Mexican-American War resulted in

renewed debate over the expansion of slavery

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the US Supreme Court ruled that

separate but equal public facilities for blacks and whites were legal

The American or "Know-Nothing" Party of the 1850s

sought to limit the rights of immigrants

the primary focus of women's reform movements in the fifty years after that Civil War was the struggle for

suffrage

As whites moved westward into Indian territories in the last half of the 19th century

the American Indians themselves were often blamed for the troubles that ensued

the above letter helps to best explain of the following?

the Emancipation Proclamation

what became the most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850?

the Fugitive Slave Act

Which of the following was NOT a cause of increased American settlement of the West after the Civil War?

the deployment of the Army in the region

In the 19th century, Southerners used all of the following arguments to justify slavery EXCEPT

the international slave trade was highly profitable for all regions of the country

Southern critics of slavery most often asserted that

the plantation economy made the South a colony of the North

The Republican Party campaign platform of 1860 called for

the restriction of slavery from the territories

Which of the following statements best explains why the Mormons migrated west?

they were seeking their own new promised land

American interests and priorities with regard to Asia in the 1840s and 1850s primarily centered around

trade and commerce

the above passage could be construed as encouraging northern states to

violate federal law

President Andrew Jackson was impeached as a result of his

violation of the Tenure Office Act

The territory that the United States gained as a result of the Mexican-American War

was largely unsuited to slavery