Period 5 MCQ answers: APUSH

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Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to

deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement.

The North's greatest strength in the Civil War was its

economy and industrial capacity.

The main purpose of the Black Codes was to

ensure a stable and subservient labor supply

The final Union war strategy did not include

guerrilla warfare

Even though the Force Acts and the Union Army helped suppress the Ku Klux Klan, the secret organization largely achieved its central goal of

intimidating blacks and undermining them politically

As the Civil War began, the South seemed to have the advantage of

more talented military leaders

In declaring their independence, the Confederate States relied heavily on the example of the

principles of self-determination of the Declaration of Independence.

The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical because it

probably prevented intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy.

In his 10 percent plan for Reconstruction, President Lincoln promised

rapid readmission of southern states

Stephen A. Douglas argued, in his Freeport Doctrine, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that

slavery could not survive if the people did not pass laws to support it.

The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that

slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States.

The Southern cause was weakened by

the concept of states' rights that the Confederacy professed.

describe postwar south

the economy and social structure was utterly devastated.

the civil war did NOT result in

the end of protective tariffs and isolationism.

In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was

to be decided by popular sovereignty.

in the 1866 congressional elections

voters endorsed the Republican congressional approach to Reconstruction.

In 1846, the United States went to war with Mexico because of...

-the ideology of Manifest Destiny. -the deaths of American soldiers at the hands of Mexicans in disputed territory. - to settle the question of the American claim to Texas.

In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called

Manifest Destiny

Stephen A. Douglas's plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of the

Missouri Compromise

The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, ending the Mexican War, included

United States payment of $15 million for the Mexican cession.

The white South viewed the Freedmen's Bureau as

a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance.

According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by

a vote of the people in any given territory.

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

actually hurt the cause of the South

he importance of the Border States was demonstrated when Lincoln

allowed them to keep their slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation.

In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court

argued that slaves were not citizens, and Congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories.

In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to

call upon the slaves to rise and establish a black free state.

The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed

citizenship and civil rights to freed slaves


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