1st Six Weeks BLEND Quiz

Which of the following statements best summarizes the views of Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction?

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 about the Dred Scott decision is correct?

It stated that slaves were not citizens of the United States

Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 to 1863 was

Possible British recognition of the Confederacy

Which of the following most likely increased Mexican suspicion of United States territorial objectives in the 1830s and 1840s?

Rhetoric on manifest destiny in the American press

In the presidential campaign of 1860, which of the following positions was asserted by the Republican party platform with respect to slavery?

The extension of slavery to United States territories should be prohibited by the federal government, but slavery should be protected where it already existed.

Which of the following best characterizes the response of Great Britain and France to the American Civil War?

They saw advantages in a divided Union, but pursued cautious policies toward both sides.

In the antebellum period, free African Americans were

able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination

The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to

allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there

In the 1850s, the South differed from the North in that the South had

fewer European immigrants

The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to

place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to freed slaves

All of the following elements of the Radical Republican program were implemented during Reconstruction EXCEPT

provision of 40 acres of each freedman

The Kansas-Nebraska Act heightened the sectional crisis because it

repealed part of the Missouri Compromise

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT

the abolition of slavery throughout the United States

Which of the following would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

A New England abolitionist

The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ?

Possession of California and most of the Southwest

"We do not know whether free laborers ever sleep. . . . The free laborer must work or starve. He is more of a slave than the negro, because he works longer and harder for less allowance than the slave, and has no holiday, because the cares of life with him begin when its labors end. He has no liberty, and not a single right." George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters, 1857 The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that

slaves lived better than northern factory workers

The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in

the draft riots in New York City

The direct impact of the Civil War on the economy included all of the following EXCEPT

the emergence of the trust as a form of business organization

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850s?

the strengthened Fugitive Slave Law

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established

the suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color or previous servitude