Unit 5 U.S

The idea that the U.S. was foreordained to become an expanding nation and a transcontinental power was called _________________.

Manifest destiny

Which one of the following slave states remained in the United States throughout the Civil War?

Maryland

Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?

National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories.

Which of the following was Not Mexican territory in 1825?

Oregon

Which of the following is not true about the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

Poll taxes and literary tests were made illegal

The original purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

Provide freed blacks with food, clothing, and educational opportunities

Who did Johnson fire in 1868 such that it caused him to run afoul of the Tenure of Office Act?

Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton

During Reconstruction, most former slaves found employment mainly as

Sharecroppers

Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South contended that

Slavery did great harm to the poor whites of the south

Symbolically important, the 1846 Wilmot Proviso stated that

Slavery should never be established in the territories acquired from Mexico

Which of these agreements was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850, which kept the Union together?

Slavery was abolished in the District of Columbia

Which of the following is true about the Trent Affair?

Lincoln released the diplomats to make peace

Which of the following quotations is from the Gettysburg Address?

"The world will note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

All of the following were part of the Compromise of 1877 except

A guarantee of voting rights for all males in the south

Bleeding Kansas

A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.

Chronology: (Civil War ends/ Battle of Gettysburg/ Abraham Lincoln elected President/ South Carolina secedes/ Attack on Ft. Sumter)

Abraham Lincoln elected president/ South Carolina secedes/ Attack on Ft. Sumter/ Battle of Gettysburg/ Civil War ends

During most of the Reconstruction period, African American men were

Allowed to vote/ suffrage

At what battle in 1862 was Lee forced to give up his planned invasion of the North?

Battle of Antietam

The Sumner-Brooks affair

Brooks felt insulted when Sumner blamed the south for Bleeding Kansas so he beat Sumner with a cane. Violent disagreements about slavery were being felt in the halls of congress

Chronology: (Fugitive slave act/ Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo/ James K. Polk elected president/ California Gold Rush/ Civil War begins)

California gold rush/ Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo/ fugitive slave act/ James K. Polk elected president/ Civil War begins

What historically signals the end of Reconstruction?

Compromise of 1877

Which of the following most angered Congress in 1865, such that it was determined to take a hard line on Reconstruction?

Johnson's acts towards reconstruction

Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?

Election of 1860/ Lincoln elected

What was a key element of Confederate strategy?

Fight a defensive battle to wear down the north

Which of the following did NOT attempt to disenfranchise black voters?

Force Act

The federal agency designed to assist former slaves in making the economic adjustment to freedom was known as the

Freedmen's Bureau

Chronology: (Fugitive Slave act, Kansas-Nebraska act/ Abraham Lincoln elected president/ John Brown raids Harpers ferry/ Civil War begins)

Fugitive Slave act/ Kansas-Nebraska act/ John Brown raids Harpers ferry/ Abraham Lincoln elected president/ Civil War begins

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

Greatly strengthened northern anti slavery feeling

What was Lincoln's reaction to the Wade-Davis Bill?

He refused to sign and pocket vetoed it

In his first term, President Polk developed a four-point program of goals that included all of EXCEPT

Immediate annexation of Texas

Which of the following was NOT part of the Anaconda Plan to win the Civil War?

Invade the south and capture all major cities

Which of the following was not an effect of Reconstruction

It inspired a mass exodus of southern blacks to lands that had never known slavery

Which of the following was NOT true of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

It rendered the terms of the compromise of 1850 void

What made the Ostend Manifesto so controversial?

It was a secret plan by the United States to buy or take Cuba.

Scalawag" was the insulting label given to

Southern whites who cooperated with the reconstruction efforts of the U.S. government

Chronology: (James K. Polk elected president/ Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo/ U.S. Mexican War begins/ Texas Was for independence/ Civil War begins)

Texas war for independence/ U.S. Mexican War begins/ Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo/ James K. Polk elected president/ Civil War begins

What political party dominated the "Solid South" as a result of Reconstruction?

The Democratic Party

Hiram Revels

The first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress.

The Tenure of Office Act (1867) was instrumental in

The impeachment of Andrew Johnson

Which of the following statements was NOT an argument against the Fugitive Slave Act?

The law violated the Dred Scott decision.

What name was given to the fighting around Richmond, which climaxed the Peninsular Campaign?

The seven days battle

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, developed in 1863, allowed for a state to be readmitted once

They abolished slavery

Prior to the attack on Fort Sumter, which state was NOT part of the Confederacy?

Virginia

Each of the following occurred during the Mexican-American War EXCEPT...

William B. Travis and his men were annihilated at the Alamo

In the Supreme Court case Ex parte Milligan, the court ruled that

citizens could not be tried by a military court if a civilian court was in session

Which of the following was the most serious hardship encountered by soldiers on both sides of the Civil War?

disease

Carpetbaggers were

individuals from the North seeking opportunity in the South after the war

Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to

limit the rights of newly freed African Americans

The biggest challenge Confederate president Jefferson Davis faced was

ongoing tension between states' rights and the need for a unified central government

The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of which policy for the territories?

popular sovereignty

In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic party

split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate

As presented to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution provided for

the admission of Kansas as a slave state

The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for

the dramatic rise of the Republican Party

At the end of Reconstruction, southern whites disenfranchised Blacks, using all of the following strategies EXCEPT

the use of federal troops to discourage African Americans from voting in elections

Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because

they believed Brown's violent abolitionist sentiments were shared by the whole North