AP Classroom Period 5 questions
The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in...
Kansas
True or False? A massive exodus of former slaves from the South led congress to impose Radical Reconstruction measures
False
What amendment invalidates the decision made in the Dred Scott case?
14th Amendment
Who would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A New England abolitionist
In the late nineteenth century, state governments in the South were largely successful in restricting...
African Americans' voting rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment
In addition to the KKK, how else did the South attempt to uphold white dominance?
After 1877 Democrats in the South legislated restrictions on the ability of African Americans to vote.
"The question of slavery, either of its introduction or interdiction, is silent as respects the action of this [federal] Government; and if it has been decided, it has been by a different body—by a different power—by California herself, who had a right to make that decision." This reflects what historical situation?
Congressional leaders sought political compromise to resolve discord between the North and the South.
What was the DBQ, LE, and SA asking?
DBQ -- petition for suffrage for African Americans LE -- "Evaluate the extent to which Reconstruction changed United States society in the period from 1865 to 1900." SA - "Analyze the social, political, and economic forces of the 1840s and early 1850s that led to the emergence of the Republican Party."
True or False? One of the causes of the Civil War was the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery.
False
True or False? The decision of the Dred Scott Court Case contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s
False
True or False? The growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery was a cause of the Civil War.
False
True or false? During the Civil War, the Republican Party passed legislation promoting economic development concerning: granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods
False
"Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it can't be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful." - Lincoln The excerpt best serves as evidence for what?
Lincoln sought to avoid violence over the issues that divided the country.
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
Missouri Compromise
"My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. . . . I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by." - Abe Lincoln The excerpt most likely reflects what historical situation?
States in the South had begun seceding after the presidential election.
What event best explains the territorial expansion of slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century?
The Mexican-American War (incorporated extensive new lands into the United States.)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to what earlier legislative initiative?
The Missouri Compromise in 1820
What evidence could best be used to refute the claim that the Union had done little for formerly enslaved people by 1867?
The creation of schools by the Freedmen's Bureau for formerly enslaved people
"It would enable us . . . Such easy and rapid communication with such facilities for exchanging the different products of the different parts would bring all our immensely wide spread population together. . . ." - Whitney (about the National Railroad) What directly contributed to the request expressed in the excerpt?
The desire for international trade and access to global markets
True or False? Confederate armies lost a greater proportion of its soldiers than did the Union.
True
True or False? For most of the war, African Americans were paid less than White soldiers of equal rank.
True
The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it...
forestalled the possibility of European intervention
In the first half of the nineteenth century, a major consequence of United States expansionism was...
increased sectional discord, accompanied by the growing failure of compromise
The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the
passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act
The most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was...
possible British recognition of the Confederacy
In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to...
preserve the Union
"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." The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that...
slaves lived better than northern factory workers
During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the...
spread of sharecropping
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 Compromise of 1877 resulted in...
the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
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...
there were relatively few slaves or large plantations in these regions
What was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?
A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers
During Reconstruction, what was a change that took place in the South for African Americans (politically)?
African Americans were able to exercise political rights.
Which president is this?: He believed that Reconstruction was an executive branch matter and sought the rapid restoration of the former Confederate states to the Union.
Andrew Johnson
Which of the following achievements of the "carpetbag" governments survived the "Redeemer" administrations?
Establishment of a public school system
True or False? Congress voting to end the interstate slave trade contributed to the perception of many White Southerners that antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s?
False
True or False? One main idea of Manifest Destiny was that Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base.
False
The growth of the US led directly to what between the North and South?
Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new territories
The largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century came from where?
Ireland
"The American Republicans of the city and county of Philadelphia, who are determined to support the NATIVE [White, Protestant] AMERICANS in their Constitutional Rights of peaceably assembling to express their opinions on any question of Public Policy, and to SUSTAIN THEM AGAINST THE ASSAULTS OF ALIENS AND FOREIGNERS" Historians could best use the excerpt as an example of what?
Political responses to changing demographics in the United States
"Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it can't be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful." - Lincoln Evidence in the excerpt best corroborates what idea of the Southern states?
Southern politicians would not abandon slavery, and they believed Lincoln was a threat to that system.
. . . [H]istory shall record the names of heroes and martyrs who bravely answered the call of patriotism and Liberty—against traitors, thieves and assassins—let it not be said that in the long list of glory, composed of men of all nations—there appears the name of no colored man." Ideas expressed by Douglass in the excerpt were most likely interpreted as supporting which of the following arguments?
The war was no longer just about preserving the union of the states.
True or False? The Union had a larger and more diverse population of workers to enlist from than did the Confederacy.
True
True or False? This principle was established by the Dred Scott decision: National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories.
True
True or false? The KKK was formed during reconstruction.
True
The political cartoon "A "Strong" Government" is intended to represent...
a critique of Reconstruction
After the Civil War, women reformers and former abolitionists were divided over...
legislation that ensured the voting rights of African American males
Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported...
restrictions on Catholics' holding public office
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to...
strengthen the moral cause of the Union
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established...
that suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude
The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for...
the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
"...One might conclude that this imbalance between outcomes of sectional healing and racial justice was simply America's inevitable historical condition....But theories of inevitability...are rarely satisfying.... The sectional reunion after so horrible...This is the tragedy lingering on the margins and infesting the heart of American history from Appomattox to World War I." What best explains the reason for the reconciliation described by Blight?
Efforts to change southern racial attitudes and culture ultimately failed because of the South's determined resistance and the North's waning resolve.
On the eve of the Civil War, the South enjoyed an advantage over the North in...
experienced military leadership