APUSH Chapter 12-15
The subject of Charles Sumner's speech that led to his beating on the floor of Congress was
"Bleeding Kansas"
General Winfield Scott's nickname was
"Old Fuss and Feathers"
General Zackary Taylor's nickname was
"Rough and Ready"
Ulysses S Grant depended on this group for his presidential victory in 1868
African Americans
All of the following fought for Texas's independence from Mexico except
Andrew Jackson
Lee surrendered to Grant at
Appomattox Court House
A conflict between rival groups of lumbermen on the Maine-Canadian border
Aroostook War
The bloodiest day in the Civil War
Battle of Antietam
Zachary Taylor defeated Santa Anna at this battle
Battle of Buena Vista
This battle was the key to the Mississippi campaign
Battle of Fort Donelson
This battle remembered as the most one sided battle of the Civil War
Battle of Fredericksburg
The turning point in the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at this battle
Battle of San Jacinto
This battle was fought near an abandoned Methodist church
Battle of Shiloh
The first significant battle of the Civil War took place
Bull Run
stated slave owners had the same constitutional protection of their property in the new territories as they had in their own states
Calhoun Resolutions
An agreement between Britain the US not to seek control over building a canal in Central America
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
They did not like Zachary Taylor and apposed slavery
Conscience Whigs
One of the major political scandals of the Grant presidency involved
Credit Mobilier
This caused a decline in grain exports contributing to the onset of the Panic of 1857
Crimean War
Who gave the "Seventh of March" speech?
Daniel Webster
Union naval commander who captured New Orleans
David Farragut
This legalized slavery in the new territories
Dred Scott Case
He introduced interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
His invention took much of the production of clothing out of homes into factories
Elias Howe
This court case supported the suspension of writ of habeas corpus
Ex Parte Milligan
The President could use federal troops to suppress resistance to federal law through the
Force Act
The Civil War began on April 12, 1861 at
Fort Sumter
Conscience Whigs, Northern Democrats, and the abolitionist Liberty Party formed this party
Free Soil Party
In response to the Whig Party nomination of Zachary Taylor in 1848, many "conscience Whigs" fled the party, joined with antislavery Democrats, and formed the
Free Soil Party
They branded slavery "a great moral, social, and political evil"
Free Soil Party
This was the final act of Manifest Destiny
Gadsden Purchase
The Anaconda Plan was
General Winfield Scott's strategy for encircling and squeezing the South into submission
He wrote Sociology for the South, questions the principle of equal rights for "unequal men"
George Fitzhugh
This treaty gave the US the right to build a canal
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
He is called the "Great Compromiser"
Henry Clay
This act promotes settlement of the west
Homestead ACt
He exhorted Americans to "Go west, young man"
Horace Greely
The winner of the 1856 presidential election was
James Bunchanan
"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" was associated with
James Polk
The president of the Confederacy was
Jefferson Davis
Who of the following would have argued that "freedom is not possible without slavery"?
John C Calhoun
He proposed a series of amendments to bring reconciliation, but the attempt was a little too late
John Crittenden
He coined the term manifest destiny
John Louis O'Sullivan
Gold was found on his land leading to the 1849 gold rush
John Sutter
Which of the following slave states did not secede from the United States?
Kentucky
Buchanan's first challenge was to accept or reject
Lecompton Constitution
He promoted the idea of popular sovereignty
Lewis Cass
In the election of 1848, the idea of "popular sovereignty" was most closely identified with
Lewis Cass
South Carolina attacked Fort Sumter when
Lincoln announced his plan to peacefully resupply the fort
The Kansas-Nebraska Act proposed organizing two territories from
Louisiana Purchase
Succeeded because of the election of Abraham Lincoln
Lower South
the first black regiment
Massachusetts 54th Regiment
One of the major problems faced by Union armies during the campaigns of 1862 was
McClellan's relectance to fight
By going to war, the US gianed the territory labeled as the
Mexican Cession
He signed the Compromise of 1850 into law
Millard Fillmore
This act allowed the sale of federal land grants to build agricultural/technical collages
Morrill Land Grant Act
This organization was organized by Abolitionists and Free Soilers to aid the transportation of antislavery settlers to Kansas
New England and Emigrant Aid Company
The Oregon Territory consisted of
Oregon, Washington, British Columbia
This economic event greatly affected the North, not so much the South
Panic of 1857
the term manifest destiny refers to the belief that
Providence had destined the American continent to be dominated by the United States
The ones pushing for more reforms in the South in favor of African Americans were the
Radical Republicans
Founder of the Trancendentalists
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The destruction of the Whig Party led to the formation of the
Republican Party
Most former northern members of the American Party became
Republicans
Two Years before the Mast, which helped to encourage westward expansion, was written by
Richard Henry Dana
At the Battle of the Seven Days, Confederate armies prevented George McClellan from capturing which vital Southern city?
Richmond
The appointment of ________ to command Confederate armies in Virginia marked a turning point in the Civil War
Robert E Lee
He was the Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case
Roger Taney
He developed America's first textile mill
Samuel Slater
The Mexican commander who granted Texas independence from Mexico was
Santa Anna
He was the most successful empresario
Stephen Austin
He introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
The man most responsible for passing the Compromise of 1850 was
Stephen Douglas
In the "Freeport Doctrine"
Stephen Douglas suggested that the territories could maintain popular sovereignty by refusing to protect slavery there
Which of the following was not a border state?
Tennessee
Which of the following is true of Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial?
The Senate sat as a court to try Johnson on charges drawn up by the House
The Kansas and Nebraska Territories were organized for which of the following reasons?
To begin construction on an transcontinental railroad
Almost brought Britain into the war
Trent Affair
The emphasis of this book was the well-being of the slave family
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Introduced as a result of the Fugitive Slave Act
Underground Railroad
Which of the following was not a trail heading out west
Utah Trial
In the famous naval battle of 1861, the Northern Ship Monitor faced the Southern ironclad, the
Virginia
This treaty with Britain over the northern border of Maine and the border between Minnesota and Canada
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
the four-time invader of Central America and the self-proclaimed president of Nicaragua was
William Walker
the congressional act that opposed the extension of slavery into any territory ceded by Mexico was the
Wilmont Proviso
Proposed slavery be prohibited in any territory acquired from Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
General-in-Chief who developed the Anaconda Plan
Winfield Scott
He was the architect of the Anaconda Plan
Winfield Scott
This group proclaimed the providential hand of God in expansion
Young American Movement
The Mexican War's first phase was carried out by which of the following?
Zachary Taylor
The Ostend Manifesto was
a document in which the United States threatened to seize control of Cuba
One of the problems of the southern economy on the eve of the Civil War was
a lack of diversification
In 1850 southerners were most upset by the
admission of California as a free state
What does the word empresario mean?
agent
Southern whites regarded "Carpetbaggers" as
agents of an army of occupation
President Polk provoked a war with Mexico
all of these choices
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
all of these choices
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo
all of these choices
which of the following was not a reason Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
allow Southerners to join the North
the primary goal of President John Tyler was to
annex Texas
Which of the following was not a part of the Compromise of 1877?
appointment of a southern vice president
The filibusters of the 1840s and 1850s
attempted to acquire new territories in which to extend slavery
The Pacific Railway Act
authorized the building of a transcontinental railroad
Which was not a Northern military advantage over the South?
better commanding officers in the filed
The majority of southern Republican voters were
blacks
Slave states that did not succeed from the Union
border states
Organization of the Nebraska territory was necessary in order to
build a railroad across the area
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
called for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
John Brown was noted for all of the following except
coining the phrase "the irrepressible conflict" to explain the coming of the Civil War
The most important crop in the south was
cotton
All of the following were northern advantages except
defensive war as a strategy
The main purpose of the KKK during Reconstruction was to
destroy the Republican Party in the South
California's population increased dramatically in the late 1840s due to the
discovery of gold
The Emancipation Proclamation
freed all slaves in rebel controlled territory
This was the most contentious party of Compromise of 1850
fugitive slave law
All of the following were part of the Fourteenth Amendment expect it
funded the Confederate war debt
The Confiscation acts
gave power to seize enemy property used to wage war against the United States
The Legal Tender Act created this currency
greenbacks
The process of cutting spiral grooves in a gun's barrel to impart a spi to the bullet
grinding
The Fourteenth Amendment did all of the following except
guarantee the Confederate debt
What did Matthew Perry do
he opened up the trade doors with Japan
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson was
in retaliation for his opposition to congressional reconstruction
The Panic of 1857
increased hostility between northerners and southerners who disagreed over the tariff issue
The first Battle of Bull Run is most significant becasue
it was a wake-up call to the north that this war would be long and drawn out
ships with iron rams
larid rams
The destruction of the Whig Party
led to the formation of the Republican Party
Robert E Lee joined the Confederacy because he
loved his home state of Virginia and could not fight against it
Members of the Know-Nothing Party were all of the following except
middle-aged and elderly professional men
A member of a political group advocating or fighting for national independence, a strong nation government
nationalists
The major issue for the Know-Nothing Party was
nativism
The result of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was
outrage and fear throughout the South
The main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to
oversee relations between former masters and slaves
The final act that destroed the Whigs as a national political party was the
passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
In the election of 1844, James K. Polk
promised to acquire Texas and Oregon
The violence in "Bleeding Kansas" involved clashes between
proslavery and antislavery groups
The most important social distinction in the south was
race
The Panic of 1873 was primarily caused by which industry?
railroad
The Morrill Tariff Act
raised tariff rates to increase revenue and protect American manufacturers
The "black codes"
reduced freedmen to a condition close to slaveryu
Which of the following was not part of the Compromise of 1850?
repeal of all existing fugitive slave laws
The Tenure of Office Act
required Senate approval before the president could remove a cabinet member
Radical Republicans objected to Lincoln's initial Reconstruction plan because it
restored the political rights of white men who had fought against the Union
Ulysses S Grant's presidency is known as an era of
scandal and corruption at all levels of government
"popular sovereignty" was the belief that
settlers to a territory should decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery
The central issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 was
slavery
Under the Missouri Compromise
slavery would be excluded in the new territory of Nebraska
This was the most important invention concerning the railroad industry
standard gauge
On the issue of slavery in the territories, John C. Calhoun asserted that
the Constitution protected the right of citizens to move from place to place and to take their property with them
In the 1830s and 1840s the arid plains of the west were known as
the Great American Desert
After serving four terms in the Illinois legislature and one term in Congress, Abraham Lincoln was propelled back into politics by the shock oft
the Kansas-Nebraska bill
What was the significance of Goliad?
the Mexican army executed 300 American prisoners
In the Dred Scott Decision, the Supreme Court argued all of the following except
the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction in the case
The Compromise of 1877 signified
the end of Reconstruction
During the Reconstruction period
the illiteracy rate among southern blacks was reduced significantly
On the issue of secession, most Northerners agreed that
the issue should be decided by the Supreme Court, not by the president
The Supreme Court case Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) involved
the kidnapping of fugitive slaves
The term Oregon fever refers to
the mass migration of thousands of farm families to the Northwest
The central theme of Uncle Tom's Cabin is
the tragedy of the breakup of families by slavery
The term "bayonet rule" refers to
the use of federal troops to support Republican state governments and black rights in the South
Which of the following best describes both militaries
they were always supplied well
Ulysses S Grant was guilty of
unwise appointments of public officials
In The Impending Crisis or the South, Hinton Rowan Helper
used statistics to demonstrate slavery weakened the south's economy
The main issue addressed by the 15th Amendment was
voting
The Union war effort was financed primarily by
war bonds
Anthony Burns
was a runaway slave arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act
In the election of 1848, Zachary Taylor carried southern states primarily because he
was a slaveholder
All of the following statements regarding the Fifteenth Amendment are true except it
was popular among northern women
The Dred Scott decision of the US Supreme Court involved a slave who
was suing for his freedom because his master had taken him into free territory
All of the following statements regarding Brigham Young are true expect he
was the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
As promised the Deep South secede from the Union
when Abraham Lincoln was elected president
scalawags were
white, southern-born Republicans
This solved the Oregon dispute
49th parallel
What were the years of the Mexican American War?
1846-1848
This Amendment abolished slavery
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