U.S. History - OpenStax, Chapters 11-15 Review
This term was used for northerners working in the South during Reconstruction: it implied that these were opportunists who came south for economic or political gain: Carpetbaggers Scalawags Ku Klux Klan Redeemers
Carpetbaggers
Born in New York in 1792, he became a leading minister during the Second Great Awakening. He preached that all people possessed free moral agency, meaning they could change their lives and bring about their own salvation, amessage that resonated with members of the middle class, who already believed their worldly efforts had led to their economic success: Charles Grandison Finney Joseph Smith William Lloyd Garrison Lyman Beecher
Charles Grandison Finney
Prior to the Civil War, this senator was beaten nearly to death after speaking out against the Kansas-Nebraska Act: John Brown Stephen Douglass Charles Sumner Preston Brooks James Buchanan
Charles Sumner
Which of the following was NOT one of the functions of the Freedmen's Bureau? Helping workers secure labor contracts Establishing schools Collecting taxes Reuniting families
Collecting taxes
The strategy of moving African Americans out of the United States, usually to Africa, was called: Colonization Teetotalism Abolition Immediatism
Colonization
These five laws were passed by Congress to resolve issues stemming from the Mexican Cession and the sectional crisis: LeCompton Constitution Kansas Nebraska Acts Compromise of 1850 Freeport Doctrine
Compromise of 1850
This legislation was made up of five separate laws passed by Congress in 1850 to resolve issues stemming from the Mexican-American War and the sectional crisis: Compromise of 1850 Wilmot Proviso Mexican Cession Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
A majority of a separate region (that would otherwise be in the minority of the nation) with the power to veto or disallow legislation put forward by a hostile majority is called: Slave Power Concurrent Majority Popular sovereignty Paternalism
Concurrent Majority
Democrats who opposed Lincoln in the 1864 election were called: Greenbacks Confederates Copperheads Contraband
Copperheads
This group, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, explored and mapped the territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase: California Gold Rush Forty Niners Corp of Discovery Louisiana Purchase
Corp of Discovery
The upswing in American cotton production during the nineteenth century was called: Second middle passage Slave power Cotton gin Cotton boom
Cotton boom
This compromise, suggested by a Kentucky senator, would have restored the 36 30' line from the Missouri Compromise and extended it to the Pacific Ocean, allowing slavery to expand into the southwestern territories: Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address Crittenden Compromise Confederate Constitution
Crittenden Compromise
A loan system in which store owners extended credit to farmers for the purchase of goods in exchange for a portion of their future crops is called: Black Codes Sharecropping Ten Percent Plan Crop-lien system
Crop-lien system
The controversy at the heart of the Ostend Manifesto centered on the fate of: Louisiana Nicaragua Cuba Ostend, Belgium
Cuba
He was born a free black man in North Carolina in 1796. He lectured on slavery, and promoted the first African American newspaper, Freedom's Journal. He called for blacks to actively resist slavery and to use violence if needed. He published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829, denouncing the scheme of colonization and urging blacks to fight for equality in the United States, to take action against racism: Nat Turner David Walker Richard Allen Frederick Douglass
David Walker
All of the following are true about the Dred Scott decision, EXCEPT: Found the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional Declared that Blacks were not entitled to the rights of U.S. citizens Determined that if a slave was taken by an owner to a free state or free territory they were free Ruled that only a state could exclude slavery Found that slaves were property and that property rights were protected under the 5th Amendment to the Constitution
Determined that if a slave was taken by an owner to a free state or free territory they were free
The trading of slaves within the borders of the United States was called: Domestic slave trade Second middle passage Paternalism Slave markets
Domestic slave trade
In this 1857 case the Supreme Court ruled that Blacks could not be citizens and Congress had no jurisdiction to impede the expansion of slavery: LeCompton v. Freeport Dred Scott v. Sanford The Pottowatomie Decision The Popular Sovereignty Clause
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Border ruffians helped to: Chase abolitionists out of Missouri Disseminate abolitionist literature in Kansas Capture runaway slaves Elect a proslavery legislature in Kansas
Elect a proslavery legislature in Kansas
An organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention, she authored the Declaration of Sentiments, in which she claimed, "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having indirect object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her": Elizabeth Cady Stanton Sarah Grimke Susan B. Anthony Ann Lee
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Signed on January 1, 1863, this document was used by President Lincoln to transform the Civil War into a struggle to end slavery: Crittenden Compromise Emancipation Proclamation The Contraband Conversion Total War Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
A person who brought new settlers to Texas in exchange for a grant of land: Empresario Californios Tejanos Alcalde
Empresario
Prior to the Civil War, all of the following are true about bleeding Kansas, EXCEPT: Events in Kansas were the last gasp of the Civil War, General Lee surrendered soon after Pro-slavery settlers crossed the border from Missouri to help make Kansas a slave state Proslavery mobs burned down the hotel and newspaper office in Lawrence A small scale civil war began in Kansas over the issue of slavery Free soilers armed settlers and sent them to Kansas to create a free state
Events in Kansas were the last gasp of the Civil War, General Lee surrendered soon after
In the 19th century, a person who engages in an unofficial military operation intended to seize land from foreign countries or foment revolution there was called a: Filibuster Corps of Discovery Slave Power Barnburners
Filibuster
As a result of the Adam-Onis Treaty, the United States gained which territory from Spain? New Mexico Florida Nevada California
Florida
Which of the following did the North NOT do to mobilize for war? Form a military alliance with Great Britain Pass the Homestead Act Institute a military draft Print paper money
Form a military alliance with Great Britain
The nickname for those who traveled to California in 1849 in hopes of finding gold was called: Corps of Discovery Forty-niner Barnburner Empresario
Forty-niner
Enslaved on Edward Lloyd's plantation, he escaped in 1838 and became an abolitionist leader, writer, statesman, and orator in the North: Nat Turner Charles Deslondes John Brown Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
He was born in Maryland in 1818, escaping to New York in 1838. His commanding presence and powerful speaking skills electrified his listeners when he began to provide public lectures on slavery. He published an autobiography in which he identified by name the whites who had brutalized him, and for that reason, along with the mere act of publishing his story, he had to flee the United States to avoid being murdered: Richard Allen Nat Turner David Walker Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
All of the following are true about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, EXCEPT: The suspected slave could not ask for a jury trial or testify on his or her own behalf any person aiding a runaway slave by providing food or shelter was subject to six months' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine Free persons falsely accused of being a runaway slave were awarded a monetary fee to compensate them for their time and attorney fees It penalized officials who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave Law-enforcement officials everywhere were required to arrest people suspected of being a runaway slave on as little as a claimant's sworn testimony of ownership Officers who captured a fugitive slave were entitled to a bonus or promotion for their work
Free persons falsely accused of being a runaway slave were awarded a monetary fee to compensate them for their time and attorney fees
The commander of land forces was called: Army of the Potomac Ulysses S. Grant General in Chief Army of the West
General in Chief
He wrote "Sociology for the South, or the Failure of Free Society" in 1854. In it he argued that a slave society was a positive good because intelligent white slaveholders took care of less intelligent black slaves who would otherwise not be capable of competing in a free labor market: William Lloyd Garrison John C. Calhoun George Fitzhugh Charles Deslondes
George Fitzhugh
This speech by Abraham Lincoln dedicated the military cemetery at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863: Gettysburg Address The Bull Run Initiative Crittenden Compromise Confederate Constitution
Gettysburg Address
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Second Great Awakening? Greater emphasis on religious education of children Greater church attendance Greater emphasis on nature Belief in the possibility of a better world
Greater emphasis on nature
Paper money the United States began to issue during the Civil War was called: Copperheads Habeas Corpus Greenbacks Contraband
Greenbacks
The right of those arrested to be brought before a judge or court to determine whether there is cause to hold the prisoner is called: Contraband Habeas Corpus Emancipation Gettysburg Guarantee
Habeas Corpus
In the 1850s, which of the following was a focus of the new Republican Party? Encouraging the use of popular sovereignty to determine where slavery could exist Supporting Irish Catholic immigrants Halting the spread of slavery Promoting states' rights
Halting the spread of slavery
All of the following are true about Joseph Smith, EXCEPT: He believed in gender equality. He presented himself as a prophet and aimed to recapture what he viewed as the purity of the primitive Christian church, purity that had been lost over the centuries. His vision of a reinvigorated patriarchy resonated with men and women who had not thrived during the market revolution, and his claims attracted those who hoped for a better future. Smith also received further revelations there, including one that allowed male church leaders to practice polygamy. In 1823, Smith claimed to have to been visited by the angel Moroni, who told him the location of a trove of golden plates or tablets.
He believed in gender equality.
All of the following are true of Frederick Douglass, EXCEPT: He opposed women's rights and public spoke out on the issue of male superiority After the war he served as president of the Freedmen's Savings Bank and then the Marshall of Washington D.C. He escaped from slavery in Maryland He wrote an autobiography of his life He became one of the most influential abolitionist speakers prior to the Civil War
He opposed women's rights and public spoke out on the issue of male superiority
All of the following are true about John C. Calhoun, EXCEPT: He supported the Compromise of 1850. He proposed a constitutional amendment specifying a dual presidency—one office that would represent the South and another for the North—a suggestion that hinted at the possibility of disunion. He blamed sectional tensions squarely on the North, which he believed stood in the way of southern and American prosperity by limiting the zones where slavery could flourish. He opposed the admittance of California as a free state.
He supported the Compromise of 1850.
All of the following are true of Rutherford B. Hayes, EXCEPT: He served as the 19th President of the United States He won the presidency through the Compromise of 1877 He was a large landowner in the South who supported the Confederacy He served in the Union Army during the Civil War He was a Republican and an Abolitionist prior to the Civil War
He was a large landowner in the South who supported the Confederacy
All of the following are true about Ulysses S. Grant, EXCEPT: He appointed African Americans to prominent political positions He worked with Radical Republicans during Reconstruction He was the first president to die in office He led the Union Army in winning the Civil War He served as President of the United States during Reconstruction
He was the first president to die in office
An influential transcendentalist, he argued that men had the right to resist authority if they deemed it unjust. "All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable." His book Walden; or, Life in the Woods articulated his emphasis on the importance of nature as a gateway to greater individuality: Charles Grandison Finney Henry David Thoreau William Lloyd Garrison Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
He was the first African American to serve in the United States Congress, representing the state of Mississippi: Hiram Revels Samuel Tilden Ruther B. Hayes Frederick Douglass Blanche Bruce
Hiram Revels
All of the following are true about Nat Turner, EXCEPT: His revolt was discovered before Turner could act on it, as a result no one was killed. He was bolstered by his Christian faith and believed that he, like Christ, should lay down his life to end slavery. He led a failed slave revolt in Virginia in 1831, was captured, and hung. Shocked by Nat Turner's Rebellion, Virginia's state legislature considered ending slavery in the state in order to provide greater security.
His revolt was discovered before Turner could act on it, as a result no one was killed.
The moral demand to take immediate action against slavery to bring about its end was called: Temperance Colonization Immediatism Abolition
Immediatism
An oath that the Wade-Davis Bill required a majority of voters and government officials in Confederate states to take; it involved swearing that they had never supported the Confederacy: Iron-clad Oath The Ten Percent Plan Redeemption Compromise of 1877
Iron-clad Oath
All of the following are true about the Kansas-Nebraska Act, EXCEPT: It organized Kansas territory and Nebraska territory under the concept of popular sovereignty It overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820 It was attacked by free soil and anti-slavery forces It banned slavery from the territory north of the 36 30' line
It banned slavery from the territory north of the 36 30' line
All of the following are true about the Reconstruction Era in the United States, EXCEPT: During this era the 14th Amendment was passed It ended because ex-Confederate political leaders agreed that the increase of civil rights was an improvement worth surrendering to the North for. It was an attempt to reshape the society and politics of the 11 ex-Confederate states During this era the 13th Amendment was passed The attempt to reshape the ex-Confederate states was more successful while federal troops remained in the South enforcing new laws
It ended because ex-Confederate political leaders agreed that the increase of civil rights was an improvement worth surrendering to the North for.
All of the following are true about the phrase "to be sold down the river," EXCEPT: It referred to the expanded transportation of cotton on steamboats along the Mississippi River This forced migration of slaves to the Deep South meant that African Americans composed the vanguard of American expansion to the South West. Harriet Beecher Stowe used the phrase in her 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin It referred to the forced migration of slaves from the upper southern states to the Deep South
It referred to the expanded transportation of cotton on steamboats along the Mississippi River
All of the following are true about the Civil Rights Act of 1866, EXCEPT: It was vetoed by Andrew Johnson It was primarily designed to protect the rights of Black Americans born in the United States It specifically included Hispanic Americans who had become US citizens after the Mexican American War the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law Andrew Johnson's veto was over-ridden by Congress
It specifically included Hispanic Americans who had become US citizens after the Mexican American War
A Democrat, he impressed the South with his regard for the constitutional safeguards for the institution of slavery. He appealed to the North by claiming to be morally opposed to slavery. He won the presidency in 1856: Stephen Douglas Zachary Taylor James Buchanan John Brown Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
A proposal to prohibit the importation of slaves to Missouri following its admission to the United States was made by: John Quincy Adams John C. Calhoun Henry Clay James Tallmadge
James Tallmadge
Prior to the Civil War, all of the following are true about John Brown's raid, EXCEPT: The raid took place at Harper's Ferry Virginia John Brown was captured, tried, and hung The raid outraged southern slaveholders who were already fearful of slave insurrections John Brown was a pro-slavery advocate John Brown was supported by wealthy Boston abolitionists
John Brown was a pro-slavery advocate
This powerful Southern politician defended states' rights, especially the right of the southern states to protect slavery from a hostile northern majority: Franklin Pierce William Lloyd Garrison William Ellison John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun
He shot and killed Abraham Lincoln: Ulysses S. Grant Samuel Tilden Hiram Revels Rutherford B. Hayes John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth
After the United States Civil War, this White paramilitary group terrorized Black southerners who attempted to vote or exercise other civil rights: Ku Klux Klan Las Gorras Blancas Carpetbaggers Union Leagues Scalawags
Ku Klux Klan
One of the white vigilante organizations that engaged in terroristic violence with the aim of stopping Reconstruction was called: Ku Klux Klan Union Leagues Scalawags Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
All of the following are true about the free black population, EXCEPT: Legally free blacks in the South enjoyed all the social and political benefits of free whites in the South. Although rare, some free blacks, such as Andrew Dunford, owned slaves of their own. Most free blacks were lighter skinned women, a reflection of the interracial unions that formed between white men and black women. More free blacks lived in the South than in the North
Legally free blacks in the South enjoyed all the social and political benefits of free whites in the South.
This political party was formed in 1840 by those who believed political measures were the best means by which abolition could be accomplished: Barn Burners Liberty Party Free Soil Party Democrats
Liberty Party
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates: Lincoln's national profile was raised. Lincoln successfully defended the principle of popular sovereignty. Douglas was elected senator of Illinois. Citizens in both the North and South followed the debates closely.
Lincoln successfully defended the principle of popular sovereignty.
Which reformer wrote, "The comparison between women and the colored race is striking . . . both have been kept in subjection by physical force": Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton Sarah Grimke Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child
Which reformer wrote, "The comparison between women and the colored race is striking . . . both have been kept in subjection by physical force": Lydia Maria Child Lucretia Mott Sarah Grimke Elizabeth Cady Stanto
Lydia Maria Child
To balance votes in the Senate, which state was admitted to the Union as a free state at the same time that Missouri was admitted as a slave state? Maine Arkansas Florida New York
Maine
The issue of what to do with these western territories added to the republic by the war of 1846 consumed Congress in 1850 and led to the Compromise of 1850: Texas Utah Mexican Cession Kansas
Mexican Cession
The belief that the Kingdom of God would be established on earth and that God would reign on earth for a thousand years characterized by harmony and Christian morality was called: Moral Suasion Teetotalism Immediatism Millennialism
Millennialism
Race-mixing through sexual relations or marriage was called: Abolition Polygenism Phrenology Miscegenation
Miscegenation
This agreement reached in Congress in 1820 allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brought Maine into the Union as a free state, and prohibited slavery north of the 36 30' line: Wilmot Proviso Mexican Cession Tallmadge Amendment Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise
In 1819, Missouri applied for admission to the Union as a slave state. This prompted the: Missouri Crisis Panic of 1819 Corrupt Bargain South Carolina Exposition Nullification
Missouri Crisis
This American denomination, also known as the Latter Day Saints, emphasized patriarchal leadership: Mormons Transcendentalism Second Great Awakening Washingtonians
Mormons
All of the following are true of the ironclad oath, EXCEPT: It played an important role in reducing the power of ex-Confederate officials during Reconstruction It required voters to swear that they had never supported the Confederacy It required voters to swear they had never taken up arms against the United States It was supported by Radical Republicans Most ex-Confederate officials supported the oath, hoping that it would help create collaboration between ex-Confederate leaders and newly enfranchised Black voters
Most ex-Confederate officials supported the oath, hoping that it would help create collaboration between ex-Confederate leaders and newly enfranchised Black voters
The nonexistent all-water route the North American continent sought by European and American explorers was called: Adam-Onis Treaty Line Fifty Four Forty Line Mexican Cession Northwest Passage
Northwest Passage
All of the following are true about the United States Civil War, EXCEPT: One cause of the war was the desire to expand United States political control over sugar plantations in the Caribbean It was fought between Union and the Confederacy One cause of the war was the question of whether or not slavery would expand into newly acquired western territories and states One cause of the war was the growing abolitionist movement advocating that slavery was morally wrong One cause of the war was the differences between the free market economy of the North and the slave based economy of the South
One cause of the war was the desire to expand United States political control over sugar plantations in the Caribbean
This treaty, agreed to between the British and the United States, settled the US border of Oregon at the 49th parallel: Wilmot Proviso Tallmadge Amendment Oregon Treaty Compromise of 1850 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Oregon Treaty
This secret diplomatic memo stated that if Spain refused to sell Cuba to the United States, the United States was justified in taking the island as a national security measure: Second middle passage Honor Slave Power Ostend Manifesto
Ostend Manifesto
The largest group of whites in the South: Owned between one and nine slaves each Owned between ten and ninety-nine slaves each Owned no slaves Owned over one hundred slaves each
Owned no slaves
Under Radical Reconstruction, which of the following did former Confederate states NOT need to do in order to rejoin the Union? Allow all freed men over the age of 21 to vote Pass the Fifteenth Amendment Revise their state constitution Pass the Fourteenth Amendment
Pass the Fifteenth Amendment
The premise that southern white slaveholders acted in the best interests of their slaves was called: Slave power Paternalism Polygenism Concurrent Majority
Paternalism
Which of the following is NOT one of the methods the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups used to intimidate blacks and white sympathizers? Murdering freedmen who tried to vote Burning public schools Threatening, beating, and killing those who disagreed with them Petitioning Congress
Petitioning Congress
The mapping of the mind to specific human attributes was called: Oneidism Transcendentalism Millennialism Phrenology
Phrenology
The stressing of stressed transformative individual religious experience or piety over religious rituals and formality was called: Phrenology Pietistic Temperance Millennialism
Pietistic
Which of the following did William Lloyd Garrison NOT employ in his abolitionist efforts? Pamphleteering Immediatism Political involvement Moral Suasion
Political involvement
Which of the following did William Lloyd Garrison NOT employ in his abolitionist efforts? Political involvement Immediatism Moral Suasion Pamphleteering
Political involvement
The idea that blacks and whites come from different origins is called: Paternalism Second middle passage Polygenism Slave power
Polygenism
The principle of letting the people residing in a territory decide whether or not to permit slavery in that area based on majority rule was called: Popular Sovereignty Freeport Doctrine Compromise of 1850 Free Soil Platform
Popular Sovereignty
This South Carolinian attacked Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner after his speech denouncing "border ruffians" pouring into Kansas from Missouri: John C. Calhoun Preston Brooks James Buchanan Roger Taney
Preston Brooks
All of the following are true about cotton during the antebellum era, EXCEPT: Cotton emerged as the South's major commercial crop Production declined as planters expanded on tobacco and rice crops By 1860, the South produced two-thirds of the world's cotton Southern cotton supplied northern textile mills, fueling the Industrial Revolution in both the U.S. and Great Britain
Production declined as planters expanded on tobacco and rice crops
Northern Republicans who contested Lincoln's treatment of Confederate states and proposed harsher punishments were called: Radical Republicans Carpetbaggers Redeemers Scalawags
Radical Republicans
Northern Republicans who contested Lincoln's treatment of Confederate states and proposed harsher punishments were called: Scalawags Radical Republicans Redeemers Carpetbaggers
Radical Republicans
Which person or group was most responsible for the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment? Southern voters Radical Republicans Northern voters President Johnson
Radical Republicans
Which of the following was the term southerners used for a white southerner who tried to overturn the changes of Reconstruction? Carpetbagger Redeemer White Knight Scalawag
Redeemer
In 1854, this political party was formed. It was the first political party in the United States to claim that slavery was a moral evil: Free Soil Whig Republican American Party Democratic
Republican
An antislavery political party formed in 1854 in response to Stephen Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act: Fire-Eaters Free Soil Party Republican Party American Party
Republican Party
He founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in the 1790s: David Walker Nat Turner Frederick Douglass Richard Allen
Richard Allen
Arguably the best military commander of his day, he served as a General in charge of the Confederate Army: Robert E. Lee William Tecumseh Sherman Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
The following term refers to Southern White Republicans during Reconstruction: Radical Republicans Carpetbaggers Scalawags Union Leaguers Redeemers
Scalawags
This pejorative term was used for southern whites who supported Reconstruction: Carpetbaggers Redeemers Freedmen Scalawags
Scalawags
The internal forced migration of slaves to the South and West in the United States was called: Second Middle Passage Domestic slave trade Trail of Tears Paternalism
Second Middle Passage
The location of the first American conference on women's rights and the signing of the "Declaration of Rights and Sentiments" in 1848: Brook Farm Seneca Falls Oneida Cane Ridge
Seneca Falls
This religious sect emphasized communal living and celibacy: Washingtonians Shakers Mormons Oneidas
Shakers
All of the following are true about sharecropping, EXCEPT: Sharecroppers often took out loans for the seeds and tools needed to produce a crop, expecting to pay off the loan at harvest time Sharecroppers were land owners who hired others to work their land Sharecroppers did not own their own tools and equipment Sharecroppers worked the land of another and shared in the profits from the crop at the end of the year
Sharecroppers were land owners who hired others to work their land
All of the following are true of Susan B. Anthony, EXCEPT: She opposed Elizabeth Cady Stanton's efforts to promote woman's suffrage believing that women best belonged in the home She was a leader in the woman's suffrage movement She was an ardent abolitionist and worked for the end of slavery in the United States She was arrested and convicted for voting in New York She helped Elizabeth Cady Stanton gather over 400K petitions to end slavery
She opposed Elizabeth Cady Stanton's efforts to promote woman's suffrage believing that women best belonged in the home
All of the following are true of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, EXCEPT: She supported delaying granting women the right to vote in order to ensure that black male suffrage was guaranteed She helped organize the women's rights movement in the United States She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments She was an ardent abolitionist She opposed giving the vote to black men while not also giving the vote to white and black women
She supported delaying granting women the right to vote in order to ensure that black male suffrage was guaranteed
All of the following are true about the Republican Mother, EXCEPT: Her role emphasized the education of children Her intelligence and virtue could restore the moral center of the nation Her role was based on the belief that women were inherently more moral She was deemed by nature to be less morally disciplined than men.
She was deemed by nature to be less morally disciplined than men.
The scorched-earth campaign employed in Georgia by a Union general was called: Sherman's March to the Sea Habeas Corpus Battle of Shiloh Crittenden Compromise
Sherman's March to the Sea
All of the following are true about southern honor, EXCEPT: Southern honor required that rich men face off in a duel. If both men survive the duel, they consider themselves fortunate and then write a series of letters to each other to resolve their differences. It was more disgraceful to betray an honor than it was to molest young girls. The concept of honor in the South had much to do with control over dependents such as slaves, children, wives, and other relatives. Southern white men of high social status settled their differences with duels.
Southern honor required that rich men face off in a duel. If both men survive the duel, they consider themselves fortunate and then write a series of letters to each other to resolve their differences.
This amendment (which did not pass) was proposed in 1819 and called for Missouri to be admitted as a free state and for all slaves there to be gradually emancipated: Tallmadge Amendment Wilmot Proviso Missouri Cession Missouri Compromise
Tallmadge Amendment
Mexican residents of Texas were called: Alcaldes Californios Empresarios Tejanos
Tejanos
This event initiated the process of adding Texas to the United States as a slave state: Texas Revolution Compromise of 1850 Panic of 1837 Missouri Compromise Mexican American War
Texas Revolution
Which was NOT a provision of the Crittenden Compromise? That Congress would be prohibited from abolishing slavery where it already existed That the interstate slave trade would be allowed to continue That the Five Civilized Tribes would be admitted into the Confederacy That the 36 30' line from the Missouri Compromise would be restored and extended
That the Five Civilized Tribes would be admitted into the Confederacy
During the Civil War, the Union fighting force operating outside of Washington, DC was called: The Troops of Jefferson Davis The Union The Army of the Potomac The Confederacy
The Army of the Potomac
During the Civil War, the Union fighting force operating in Kentucky, Tennessee, and the Mississippi River Valley was called: The Army of the West The Army of the Potomac The Confederacy The Union
The Army of the West
All of the following are true of the Compromise of 1877, EXCEPT: The Compromise is widely hailed as a success in protecting Black American civil liberties It led to greater challenges for Black Southerners in exercise their civil rights It represented the end of the Reconstruction Era It led to the removal of federal troops from the South It led to Rutherford B. Hayes becoming President of the United States
The Compromise is widely hailed as a success in protecting Black American civil liberties
The new nation formed by the seceding southern states was called: The Emancipated States The Union The Slave Power The Confederacy
The Confederacy
The following introduction, "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that allmen and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," can be found in: The Book of Mormon The Declaration of Sentiments The Declaration of Independence The Temperance Laws
The Declaration of Sentiments
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, which was created in 1865 to ease blacks' transition from slavery to freedom was called: Sharecropping Radical Reconstruction The Black Codes The Freedman's Bureau
The Freedman's Bureau
During the 1858 Senate campaign, Stephen Douglas explained that he believed local communities could ban slavery in their immediate region by not passing local laws supporting the institution of slavery. This is referred to as: The LeCompton Compromise The Freeport Doctrine The Ostend Manifesto The Gadsden Agreement The Dred Scott Decision
The Freeport Doctrine
This movement began with the teachings of John Humphrey Noyes. He believed in perfectionism, the idea that it is possible to be perfect and free of sin. He advocated for "complex marriage:" a form of communal marriage in which women and men who had achieved perfection could engage in sexual intercourse with many partners and without sin, infusing intercourse with spiritual power: Mormonism The Shakers Brooks Farm The Oneida Community
The Oneida Community
The minority of elite slaveholders who wielded a disproportionate amount of power over the federal government, shaping domestic and foreign policies to suit their interests were called: Fire-Eaters Border Ruffians Radical Abolitionists The Slave Power
The Slave Power
Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, which required only 10-percent of the 1860 voters in Confederate states to take an oath of allegiance to the Union was called: The Ten Percent Plan Redemption Radical Reconstruction The Ironclad Oath
The Ten Percent Plan
The House of Representatives impeached Andrew Johnson over: The Tenure of Office Act The Fourteenth Amendment The Civil Rights Act The Military Reconstruction Act
The Tenure of Office Act
All of the following were strengths of the Union, EXCEPT: An extensive railroad A large population Substantial industry The ability to fight defensively, rather than offensively
The ability to fight defensively, rather than offensively
Which of the following was NOT a component of the Compromise of 1850? The admission of California as a free state The admission of Kansas as a free state The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act A ban on the slave trade in Washington, DC
The admission of Kansas as a free state
All of the following are true about the black codes, EXCEPT: The codes were intended to identify and enforce all of the new civil rights of freedmen after the Civil War Some of the codes required that Blacks remain in low wage labor contracts They restricted the civil rights of Black Americans after the Civil War Some of the codes included vagrancy laws that allowed for Blacks to be arrested and forced to work if they did not already have a labor contract Most black codes were in the South, however, many northern states also had similar laws
The codes were intended to identify and enforce all of the new civil rights of freedmen after the Civil War
Which of the following did NOT contribute to Lincoln's victory in the election of 1860? The Constitutional Union Party's further splintering the vote The split between northern and southern democrats The defeat of the Whig Party Lincoln's improved national standing after his senatorial debates with Stephen Douglas
The defeat of the Whig Party
Transcendentalists were most concerned with: The individual The afterlife Democracy Predestination
The individual
In the context of the antebellum era, what does colonization refer to? American colonization of Africa The relocation of African Americans to Africa American colonization of the Caribbean Great Britain's colonization of North America
The relocation of African Americans to Africa
All of the following are true about the Free Soil Party, EXCEPT: Their slogan was "free soil, free labor, free speech, and free men" Their formation was prompted by the failure of the Wilmot Proviso Their party platform advocated for no further expansion of slavery within the United States They supported the Dred Scott decision as a final solution to the slavery problem in the United States The party was a combination of smaller parties dissatisfied with compromises with slavery
They supported the Dred Scott decision as a final solution to the slavery problem in the United States
All of the following are true about non-slaveholding whites in the South, EXCEPT: The majority of whites in the South were poor and landless. They dreamed of owning land and slaves someday as this was one of the only opportunities for upward social and economic advancement. They tended to agree with abolitionists that slaveholding was immoral. Non-slaveholding Yeoman farmers represented the equivalent of the "middle-class" in the South, though it was a very small percentage of southern society. They were the majority, 76.1%, of whites in the South.
They tended to agree with abolitionists that slaveholding was immoral.
All of the following are true of the domestic slave trade, EXCEPT: While substantial, the portion of African Americans held as slaves never exceeded eighty-five percent. Slavery formed the very foundation of U.S. economic success After the U.S. Congress banned participation in the Atlantic slave trade, some slaveholders took to selling "excess" bondsmen from plantations with lower labor needs to plantations further west and south that had higher labor needs. The selling of slaves in the South made up one of the largest forced internal migrations in the U.S.
While substantial, the portion of African Americans held as slaves never exceeded eighty-five percent.
Born in slave in 1790 in South Carolina, he purchased his freedom. Buying up slaves himself and putting them to work manufacturing cotton gins. By the eve of the Civil War he was one of the richest men in the state: William Walker William Ellison George Fitzhugh Frederick Douglass
William Ellison
This northern abolitionist was accused of instigating Nat Turner's Rebellion: William Walker John C. Calhoun William Lloyd Garrison Charles Deslondes
William Lloyd Garrison
At the end of the Mexican American war, this proposal would have banned slavery from all of the territories gained from Mexico: Wilmot Proviso Tallmadge Amendment Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Missouri Compromise Ostend Manifesto
Wilmot Proviso
This amendment to a revenue bill would have barred slavery from all the territory acquired from Mexico: Tallmadge Amendment Wilmot Proviso Missouri Compromise Compromise of 1850
Wilmot Proviso
These northern democrats were loyal to Martin van Buren who opposed the extension of slavery into the territories and broke away from the main party when it nominated a pro-popular sovereignty candidate: Republicans Free Soil Party Barn Burners Liberty Party
Barn Burners
Laws some southern states designed to maintain white supremacy by keeping freed people impoverished and in debt were called: Black Codes Ironclad Oaths Military Reconstruction Acts Ku Klux Klan
Black Codes
This was a reference to the violent clashes in Kansas between Free-Soilers and slavery supporters: Bleeding Kansas Caning of Charles Sumner Border Ruffians Freeport Doctrine
Bleeding Kansas
Which community or movement is associated with transcendentalism? Fourierism The Oneida Community The Ephrata Cloister Brook Farm
Brook Farm
Mexican residents of California were called: Empresarios Alcalde Tejanos Californios
Californios
A leader of the Shaker community, she experienced a profoundreligious awakening that convinced her that she was "mother in Christ." She taught that God was both male and female; Jesus embodied the male side, while she represented the female side: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Catherine Beecher Ann Lee Lucretia Mott
Ann Lee
He assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln's assassination and was the first President ever to be impeached: Rutherford B. Hayes Andrew Johnson Hiram Revels John Wilks Booth Samuel B. Tilden
Andrew Johnson
This term refers to "before the war": Paternalism Second Middle Passage Polygenism Antebellum
Antebellum
This law ended slavery in the United States: 14th Amendment 15 Amendment Civil Rights Act of 1866 13th Amendment The Military Reconstruction Act
13th Amendment
Texas won its independence from Mexico in? 1836 1830 1821 1845
1836
All of the following are true about Harriet Tubman, EXCEPT: She was one of the thousands of slaves who made their escape through the Underground Railroad. She returned to the South more than a dozen times to lead other slaves, including her family and friends, along the Underground Railroad to freedom. A plantation mistress, she secretly helped enslaved African Americans learn to read and write. Born a slave in Maryland around 1822, Tubman, who suffered greatly under slavery but found solace in Christianity.
A plantation mistress, she secretly helped enslaved African Americans learn to read and write.
All of the following are true about Harriet Beecher Stowe, EXCEPT: Her work was an inspiration not only to abolitionists, but also to those who believed that women could play a significant role in upholding the nation's morality and shaping public opinion. She was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin A southerner, she promoted the idea of paternalism. She made use of slaves' stories she had heard firsthand.
A southerner, she promoted the idea of paternalism.
All of the following were strengths of the Confederacy, EXCEPT: Shorter supply lines A strong navy The ability to wage a defensive war The resources of the Upper-South states
A strong navy
A believer in the complete elimination of slavery was called: Teetoller Immediatist Abolitionist Shaker
Abolitionist
Winning the election of 1860, he served as President during the Civil War: Abraham Lincoln William Tecumseh Sherman Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
All of the following are true about Sacagawea, EXCEPT: Her presence on the Lewis & Clark expedition helped the group appear less threatening Kidnapped as a child, at the time of the expedition she was the teenage wife of Toussaint Charbonneau and brought their newborn child with them She served as a valuable interpreter for the Lewis & Clark expedition After the Lewis & Clark expedition she married Meriwether Lewis
After the Lewis & Clark expedition she married Meriwether Lewis
This Mexican official often served as combined civil administrator, judge, and law enforcement officer: Tejanos Alcalde Californios Empresario
Alcalde
Sylvester Graham's reformers targeted: The human body All of these Nutrition Sexuality
All of these
This group helped support Black abolitionism before the Civil War and helped to establish schools for Blacks in the South after the Civil War, establishing schools and sending teachers: American Missionary Association Ku Klux Klan Carpetbaggers White Camelias Scalawags
American Missionary Association
All of the following are true about the Fugitive Slave Act, EXCEPT: It provided federal money—or "bounties"—to slave-catchers. This federal law imposed heavy fines and prison sentences on northerners and midwesterners who aided runaway slaves or refused to join posses to catch fugitives. This federal law helped reduce tensions between North and South over the issue of slavery. This law established a new group of federal commissioners who would decide the fate of fugitives brought before them. In some instances, slave-catchers even brought in free northern blacks, prompting abolitionist societies to step up their efforts to prevent kidnappings. The commissioners had a financial incentive to send fugitives and free blacks to the slaveholding South, since they received ten dollars for every African American sent to the South and only five if they decided the person who came before them was actually free. The commissioners used no juries, and the alleged runaways could not testify in their own defense
This federal law helped reduce tensions between North and South over the issue of slavery.
All of the following are true about the 10% plan to re-unite the North and South after the Civil War, EXCEPT: This plan was considered incredibly strict and made too many demands on White Southerners This plan allowed for ex-Confederate states to rejoin the Union when 10% of those who had voted in 1860 took an oath of allegiance to the Nation This plan allowed for the pardoning of all Southerners except high level officials Under this plan Lincoln promised that White Southerners would keep all their property, but not their slaves This was Abraham Lincoln's plan to re-unite the North and South
This plan was considered incredibly strict and made too many demands on White Southerners
Why did southern expansionists conduct filibuster expeditions? To map unknown territories To annex new slave states To gain political advantage To prove they could raise an army
To annex new slave states
What was General Sherman's objective on his March to the Sea? To destroy military and civilian resources wherever possible To capture General Robert E. Lee To free black prisoners of war To join his army to that of General Grant
To destroy military and civilian resources wherever possible
Why did John Brown attack the armory at Harpers Ferry? To seize weapons to distribute to slaves for a massive uprising To hold as a military base against proslavery forces To prevent the southern states from seceding In revenge after the sacking of Lawrence
To seize weapons to distribute to slaves for a massive uprising
A state of war in which the government makes no distinction between military and civilian targets, and mobilizes all resources, extending its reach into all areas of citizens' lives is called: Emancipation Total War Contraband Strategy Habeas Corpus
Total War
The belief that all people can attain an understanding of the world that transcends rational, sensory experience is called: Millennialism Immediatism Transcendentalism Mormonism
Transcendentalism
In 1848, this agreement ended the war between the United States and Mexico: Missouri Compromise Tallmadge Agreement Compromise of 1850 Oregon Treaty Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Which of the following was NOT one of the effects of the cotton boom? Northern manufacturing expanded U.S. trade increased with France and Spain Port cities like New Orleans expanded The need for slave labor grew
U.S. trade increased with France and Spain
Fraternal groups loyal to the Union and the Republican Party that became political and civic centers for blacks in former Confederate states were called: Redeemers Scalawags Radical Republicans Union Leagues
Union Leagues