apush 2nd part of the quiz
Why was the period of expansion between 1842 and 1853 so significant to the development of the United States?a: the United States obtained territory along the Gulf of Mexicob: the United States purchased its largest single territory in one actc: the United States established borders that still exists todayd: the United States expanded westward for the first time
The United States established borders that still exist today
The industrial resources of the North during the Civil War most likely accounted for which of the following?
The disadvantage of the Confederacy in access to arms, munitions, and other supplies
Which of the following developments most directly related to the increased sectional strife immediately prior to the election of 1860?
The legal ruling that denied African Americans rights of citizenship
(Frederick Douglass, 1883)----------Which of the following would in part cause Douglass's view that for African Americans, "citizenship is but a sham"? (A) 14th Amendment (B) Black Codes( C) Freedmen's Bureau (D) Election of Ulysses S. Grant
b (Black Codes)
(14th Amendment, 1868)----------In proclaiming that all persons born in the United States were citizens, the 14th Amendment directly repudiated which of the following?(A) Compromise of 1850(B) Dred Scott Decision(C) Johnson's Reconstruction Plan(D) Wade-Davis Bill
b (Dred Scott Decision)
By the 1876 presidential election, federal troops remained in which of the following Southern states ?A) North Carolina B) Florida C) Alabama D) Mississippi
b (Florida)
(Abraham Lincoln, 1863)----------President Lincoln delayed issuing an Emancipation Proclamation because of his concern that it would (A) increase foreign support for the Confederacy( B) cause the border states to secede (C) decrease power of the cotton industry( D) free slaves before they were ready
b (cause the border states to secede)
Democrats agreed to accept Rutherford B. Hayes as president in 1876 in part if he agreed to which of the following? A) to support a nationwide Black Code B) to remove federal troops from the South C) to promote Southern industrial developmen tD) to support civil service reform
b (to remove federal troops from the South)
Which of the following statements best describes the states in dark gray? (A) They were economically self-sufficient (B) They were well connected by railroads (C) They had a strong military tradition (D) They had a strong navy
c (They had a strong military tradition)
David M. Potter, historian, The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861, published in 1976Which of the following historical developments during the nineteenth century best supports Potter's argument about the underlying cause of sectional conflict?
c. The increase in economic opportunities in the West
(Abraham Lincoln, 1863)----------To issue an Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln felt that he needed which of the following? (A) A Constitutional amendment (B) Supreme Court approval( C) Republican control of Congress (D) A military victory
d (A military victory)
(Frederick Douglass, 1883)----------Which of the following developed during Reconstruction to provide direct support and support self-determination for those freed from slavery ?(A) Credit Mobilier (B) Tenant farming (C) Sharecropping (D) Black churches
d (Black churches)
Which of the following statements best describes the states in medium gray?(A) Most people lived in large cities (B) Most people advocated abolition of slavery (C) They lacked good river transportation (D) They included most of the country's population
d (They included most of the country's population)
(George Templeton Strong, 1863)----------Strong's statement that the British feared "diminishing the supply of breadstuffs on which her operatives depend" explains why he thinks the British(A) would benefit from less trade with the United States in general(B) would eventually recognize the Confederacy and trade only with it(C) depended more on the slave trade than most Americans realized(D) depended as much on trade with the Union as with the Confederacy
d (depended as much on trade with the Union as with the Confederacy)
The situation depicted in the image best serves as evidence of the
d. Expansion of federal power
(Picture)The situation depicted in the image best serves as evidence of theA: expansion of federal powerB: decline of an agrarian economyC: increase in sectional divisionsD: institutionalization of racial segregation expansion of federal power: A
expansion of federal power: A
In July of 1861, President Lincoln was particulary concerned about how his policies on slavery would affect which areas?a: the states in blue because they were home to most of his political supportersb: the region in grey because it consisted of territories that had not yet become statesc: the states in orange because he thought he could persuade them to rejoin the uniond: the states in yellow because they were slave states that remained in the union
the states in yellow because they were slave states that remained in the Union
(Frederick Douglass, 1883)----------Which best provides an example of how the "Constitution and its righteous laws," according to Douglass, provide hope for the "colored people of this country"? (A) Wade-Davis Bill (B) Amnesty Act of 1872 (C) Civil Rights Act of 1866 (D) 16th Amendment
(Civil Rights Act of 1866)
(George Templeton Strong, 1863)----------Which of the following describes a reason not mentioned by Strong in this excerpt that ultimately stopped Britain from recognizing the Confederacy? (A) Concern about causing problems in Canada (B) Desire for closer ties with Mexico (C) Respect for the Monroe Doctrine (D) Opposition from the British working class
(D) Opposition from the British working class
(graph)The pattern depicted in the graph in the first half of the nineteenth century most directly resulted inAnswer A: the formation of a political party that promoted nativismAnswer B: federal provision of financial assistance to immigrantsAnswer C: the establishment of settlement housesD: a more unified national culture that embraced immigrants
A: the formation of a political party that promoted nativism
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 1863After 1863, which of the following most fulfilled the "new birth of freedom" that the excerpt refers to?A: Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth AmendmentsB: The compromise that resolved the election of 1876C: Establishment of the Ku Klux Klan and similar organizationsD: Supre
ARatification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
The Vigilance Committee of Boston inform you that the MOCK TRIAL of the poor Fugitive Slave has been further postponed....Come down, then, Sons of the Puritans: for even if the poor victim is to be carried off by the brute force of arms, and delivered over to Slavery, you should at least be present to witness the sacrifice, and you should follow him in sad procession with your tears and prayers, and then go home and take such action as your manhood and your patriotism may suggest.Come, then, by the early trains on MONDAY, and rally.... Come with courage and resolution in your hearts; but, this time, with only such arms as God gave you."Proclamation addressed "To the Yeomanry of New England," Boston, 1854The sentiments expressed in the proclamation would have been most widely condemned by White residents ofA: coastal South CarolinaB: northern CaliforniaC: western New YorkD: western Virginia Acoastal South Carolina
Acoastal South Carolina
"We drift fast toward war with England, but I think we shall not reach that point. The shopkeepers who own England want to do us harm they can and to give all possible aid and comfort to our slave-breeding and woman-flogging adversary, for England has degenerated into a trader, manufacturer and banker and has lost all the instincts and sympathies that her name suggests...She cannot ally herself with slavery, as she inclines to do, without closing a profitable market, exposing her commerce to (Yankee) privateers, and diminishing the supply of (Northern) breadstuffs on which her operatives depend for life. On the other side, however, is the consideration that by allowing piratical Alabamas to be built, armed, and manned in her ports to prey on our commerce, she is making a great deal of money."+George Templeton Strong, New York lawyer, Diary, 1863.The Union was most disturbed because they believed that Britain was supp
Allowing British shipyards to build warships for the Confederacy
"Americans faced an overwhelming task after the Civil War and emancipation: how to understand the tangled relationship between two profound ideas—healing and justice.... [T]hese two aims never developed in historical balance. 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 a civil war was a political triumph by the late nineteenth century, but it could not have been achieved without the resubjugation of many of those people whom the war had freed from centuries of bondage. This is the tragedy lingering on the margins and infesting the heart of American history from Appomattox to World War I."David W. Blight, historian, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, 2001One key change immediately following the Ci
Answer A: establishment of a constitutional basis for citizenship and voting rights
"Americans faced an overwhelming task after the Civil War and emancipation: how to understand the tangled relationship between two profound ideas—healing and justice.... [T]hese two aims never developed in historical balance. 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 a civil war was a political triumph by the late nineteenth century, but it could not have been achieved without the resubjugation of many of those people whom the war had freed from centuries of bondage. This is the tragedy lingering on the margins and infesting the heart of American history from Appomattox to World War I."David W. Blight, historian, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, 2001Which of the following best characterizes t
Answer B: The federal government removed troops from the South and eliminated aid for former slaves.
"Europe's requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products—principally from America—are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help or face economic, social, and political deterioration of a very grave character.... It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace. Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist."Speech by Secretary of State George Marshall initiating the aid program known as the Marshall Plan, 1947The policies advocate
B: The attempts by the federal government to foster economic opportunities for former slaves after the Civil War
"[I am] commanded to explain to the Japanese that. . . [the United States] population has rapidly spread through the country, until it has reached the shores of the Pacific Ocean; that we have now large cities, from which, with the aid of steam vessels, we can reach Japan in eighteen or twenty days; [and] that . . . the Japan seas will soon be covered with our vessels."Therefore, as the United States and Japan are becoming every day nearer and nearer to each other, the President desires to live in peace and friendship with your imperial majesty, but no friendship can long exist, unless Japan ceases to act toward Americans as if they were her enemies. . . ."Many of the large ships-of-war destined to visit Japan have not yet arrived in these seas, though they are hourly expected; and [the United States has], as an evidence of [its] friendly intentions . . . brought but four of the smaller ones, designing, should it bec
B: was willing to intimidate Asian countries like Japan to secure economic opportunities
"So many people ask me what they shall do; so few tell me what they can do.Yet this is the pivot wherein all must turn."I believe that each of us who has his place to make should go where men are wanted, and where employment is not bestowed as alms. Of course, I say to all who are in want of work, GoWest! . . ."On the whole I say, stay where you are; do as well as you can; and devote every spare hour to making yourself familiar with the conditions and dexterity required for the efficient conservation of out-door industry in a new country. Having mastered these, gather up your family and GoWest!"Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, letter to R. L. Sanderson, 1871Which of the following late-nineteenth-century federal actions most directly supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?A: The passage of antitrust legislationB: The sale of land to settlers at low costC: The exclusion of immigrants from AsiaD: Th
BThe sale of land to settlers at low cost
"The petition of a great number of blacks detained in a state of slavery in the bowels of a free and Christian country humbly showeth that...they have in common with all other men a natural and inalienable right to that freedom which the Great Parent of the Universe has bestowed equally on all mankind and which they have never forfeited by any compact or agreement whatever...."[E]very principle from which America has acted in the course of their unhappy difficulties with Great Britain pleads stronger than a thousand arguments in favor of your petitioners. They therefore humbly beseech your honors to give this petition its due weight and consideration and cause an act of the legislature to be passed whereby they may be restored to the enjoyments of that which is the natural right of all men."Petition for freedom to the Massachusetts Council and the House of Representatives for the State of Massachusetts, January 1777W
C: The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
"We, therefore, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain... that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities...are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State...."South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832Arguments similar to those expressed in the excerpt were later employed to justify which of the following?Answer A: The entry into the Mexican-American WarAnswer B: The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska ActAnswer C: The secession of most Southern statesD: The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
C: The secession of most Southern states
In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily toAnswer A: liberate the slavesAnswer B: prevent European powers from meddling in American affairsAnswer C: preserve the UnionAnswer D: average political defeats and insults inflicted by the SouthE: forestall a Southern invasion of the North
C: preserve the Union
Which of the following best describes the situation of freedom in the decade following the Civil War?Answer A: Each was given 40 acres of land and a mule by the Union government.Answer B: All were immediately granted political equality by the Emancipation Proclamation.Answer C: The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters.Answer D: They were required to pass a literacy test before being granted United States citizenship.E: They supported the passage of Black codes to ensure their economic and political rights.
CThe majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters.
Mr. President... I proposed on Tuesday last, that the Senate should proceed to the consideration of the bill to organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas...Now I ask the friends and the opponents of this measure to look at it as it is. Is not the question involved the simple one, whether the people of the Territories shall be allowed to do as they please upon the question of slavery, subject to the limitations of the Constitution?If the principle is right, let it be avowed and maintained. It is wrong, let it be repudiated Let all this quibbling about the Missouri Compromise, about the territory acquired from France, about the act of 1820, be cast behind you; for the simple question is, will you allow the people to legislate for themselves upon the subject of slavery? Why should you not?+Stephen A, Douglas, Defense of the Kanas-Nebraska Bill, 1854.Opponents of Douglas's views in this excerpt were mainly concerne
Congress was repealing a law that had held the Union together for more than 30 years
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 1863Lincoln's main purpose in the excerpt was toA: advocate racial equalityB: encourage the punishment of the SouthC: propose expanded democratic voting rightsD: gain continued support for the war effort Dgain continued support for the war effort
Dgain continued support for the war effort
The image most strongly supports the argument that ReconstructionA: led to the unfair punishment of White Southerners by the NorthB: encouraged large-scale rebellions by former slavesC: involved unconstitutional abuses of government powerD: temporarily altered race relations in the South Dtemporarily altered race relations in the South
Dtemporarily altered race relations in the South
"The gentleman... has been anxious to proclaim the death of native Americanism. Sir, it is a principle that can never die....Native Americanism seeks to defend every institution that exists under that glorious Constitution....But we have been told that we belong to a party of 'one idea'... Our great object is to attain to unity of national character; and, as necessary to that end, we embrace every measure and policy decidedly American... We go for every thing American in contradiction to every thing foreign. That... may be called 'one idea'; but it is a glorious idea. ...No alien has a right to naturalization. ... To prevent this universal admission to citizenship, we frame naturalization laws, and prescribe forms that operate as a check upon the interference of foreigners in our institutions. ...We are not struggling for national character and national identity... We stand now on the very verge of overthrow by the i
Protestants who viewed Roman Catholicism as a foreign faith
The Fourteenth Amendment emerged from which of the following contexts?
Republican concerns that African Americans would be denied citizenship rights
Which of the following statements best describes the states in red & orangea: they were economically self- sufficientb: they had a strong armyc: they had a strong military traditiond: they were well connected by railroads
They had a strong military tradition (orange is states seceded after april 15th 1861 and the red is states seceded before april 15th 1861)
(14th Amendment, 1868)----------For future Supreme Courts, one of the key points of the 14th Amendment would be which of the following?(A) "nor deny ... equal protection of the laws"(B) "Representatives shall be apportioned"(C) ''the basis of representation therein shall be reduced"(D) "shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion"
a ("nor deny ... equal protection of the laws")
The victor in the 1876 presidential election was decided by A) a special electoral commission B) the House of Representatives C) the Senate D) the Supreme Court
a (a special electoral commission)
In July of 1861, President Lincoln was particularly concerned about how his policies on slavery would affect which areas?(A) the states in white because they were slave states that remained in the Union(B) the states in medium gray because they were home to most of his political supporters(C) the states in dark gray because he thought he could persuade them to rejoin the Union(D) the region in light gray because it consisted of territories that had not yet become states
a (the states in white because they were slave states that remained in the Union)
During Reconstruction, which of the following was a change that took place in the South?
a. African Americans were able to exercise political rights
William Lloyd Garrison, first issue of abolitionists newspaper, The Liberator, January 1831A person who agreed with Garrison's views expressed in the excerpt would most likely have advocated
a. Immediate emancipation of enslaved people
The image most strongly supports the argument that Reconstruction
a. Temporarily altered race relations in the South
"The gentleman... has been anxious to proclaim the death of native Americanism. Sir, it is a principle that can never die....Native Americanism seeks to defend every institution that exists under that glorious Constitution....But we have been told that we belong to a party of 'one idea'... Our great object is to attain to unity of national character; and, as necessary to that end, we embrace every measure and policy decidedly American... We go for every thing American in contradiction to every thing foreign. That... may be called 'one idea'; but it is a glorious idea. ...No alien has a right to naturalization. ... To prevent this universal admission to citizenship, we frame naturalization laws, and prescribe forms that operate as a check upon the interference of foreigners in our institutions. ...We are not struggling for national character and national identity... We stand now on the very verge of overthrow by the i
they formed a secretive society that evolved into a political party
