APUSH Period 5 Test (#1- 35)
Which of the following statements about African American soldiers during the Civil War is correct?
For most of the war, they were paid less than White soldiers of equal rank.
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
Missouri Compromise
Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?
National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories.
UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS BY PROFESSION TABLE UNION AND CONFEDERATE MILITARIES TABLE The data in the first table most directly indicate which of the following about the professions of soldiers in the Civil War?
The Confederacy relied more heavily on agricultural workers to fill its armies than did the Union.
Which of the following factors 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.
UNION AND CONFEDERATE MILITARIES TABLE The data in the tables most likely indicate which of the following?
The Union had a larger and more diverse population of workers to enlist from than did the Confederacy.
"The federal government never acknowledged that... Mark Grimsley, historian, "Wars for the American South: The First and Second Reconstructions Considered as Insurgencies," Civil War History, 2012) Which of the following best represents a continuity with pre-Civil War Southern society suggested by the events in the excerpt?
The claims to states' rights under the federal system
"Your Memorialist . . . represents to your honorable body, that he has devoted... Asa Whitney, merchant, "National Railroad, Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean," memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, 1845) Sentiments of business leaders and politicians like that expressed in the excerpt most likely contributed to which of the following?
The creation of diplomatic ties with foreign nations
Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?
The election of 1860
Which of the following contributed most significantly to a surge in western settlement during the 1860s and 1870s?
The expansion of railroads made the Great Plains more accessible.
On the eve of the Civil War, the South enjoyed an advantage over the North in
experienced military leadership
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
The Union's victory at Gettysburg was significant because it
halted the last major Confederate invasion of the North
The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the
passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act
All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the
passage of the Wilmot Proviso
In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to
preserve the Union
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to
strengthen the moral cause of the Union
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
Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT
the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery
The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for
the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
UNION AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS BY PROFESSION TABLE The data in the tables indicate which of the following?
Confederate armies lost a greater proportion of its soldiers than did the Union.
"I am filled with deep emotion at finding myself standing here in the place . . .President-elect Abraham Lincoln, speaking at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, February 22, 1861) Evidence in the excerpt best corroborates which of the following?
Southern politicians would not abandon slavery, and they believed Lincoln was a threat to that system.
Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty?"
The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.
Which of the following best describes the position on slavery of most northerners during the sectional crises of the 1850s?
They were willing to accept slavery where it existed but opposed further expansion to the territories.
The pattern depicted in the graph in the first half of the nineteenth century most directly resulted in
the formation of a political party that promoted nativism
The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in
Kansas
"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.... Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, letter to R. L. Sanderson, 1871) The advice in the excerpt most directly reflects the influence of which of the following prevailing American ideas?
Manifest Destiny
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to which of the following earlier legislative initiatives?
The Missouri Compromise in 1820
"With regard to the northwestern States, to which the ordinance of 1787 was applied... Senator Henry Clay, speech in the United States Senate, 1850) The excerpt best reflects which of the following historical situations?
Congressional leaders sought political compromise to resolve discord between the North and the South.
The trend shown in the map led most directly to which of the following?
Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new territories
Which of the following statement about the Dred Scott decision is correct?
It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.
The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ?
Possession of California and most of the Southwest
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work... Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 1863) After 1863, which of the following most fulfilled the "new birth of freedom" that the excerpt refers to?
Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
The Republican Party of the 1850s took which of the following positions on slavery?
Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new states.
"You will, no doubt, be hard on us rioters tomorrow morning—but that 300-dollar law has made us nobodies, vagabonds and cast-outs of society, for whom nobody cares when we must go to war and be shot down." The statement above refers to conscription during which conflict?
The Civil War
