Dual credit
Lincoln's original plan for Reconstruction in 1863 was that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when
10% of its voters took an oath of allegiance to the union and pledged to abide by emancipation
Sexual relationships between white southern men and female slaves was
A common practice
Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth century south?
A cycle of debt and depression for southern sharecroppers
Texas was finally admitted to the Union in 1844 as a result of
A joint resolution of congress
The compromise of 1850 provide for the
Addition of a free state without adding a new slave state
The 1854 Gadsden Purchase
Advanced the cause of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad
During the Mexican war,
American settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the United States navy.
The norths advantages over the south at the outbreak of the civil war included all of the following EXCEPT
Better military leaders
The US achieved "most favored nation" status in the 1844 Treaty of Wang Hya with
China
On April 14, 1861 Fort Sumter surrendered after
Confederate forces bombarded it.
The phrase "spot resolutions" refers to
Congressman Abraham Lincoln's resolution demanding to know the exact spot of American soil where American blood had supposedly been shed.
The most important influence on the growth of the institution of slavery in the first half of the 19th century was the
Cotton gin
President Lincoln believed that the main objective of the union armies was to
Destroy confederate armies
Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when
Federal troops were removed
The purpose of the freedmans bureau was to
Feed, adjust and educate the former slaves
To realize it's independence, the confederacy has to
Fight the invading union army to a draw
As the Battle of Vicksburg was ending, another major battle was taking place in
Gettysburg
Newly freed African Americans and Thaddeus Stevens urged the federal government to
Give them 40 acres and a mule
What was the legacy of the era depicted in this nineteenth century illustration?
Grandfather clauses and pill taxes
The fourteenth amendment was part of a series of laws that
Guaranteed all citizens due process of the law
Short Staple Cotton
Helped to keep the south a predominantly agricultural region
The United States' claim to the Oregon Country rested on all of the following EXCEPT the
Hudsons Bay company
In the Emancipation proclamation, president Ambraham Lincoln declared freedom for slaves
In the parts of the confederacy still in rebellion
What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?
It abolished slavery in all states
Which of the following best describes the policy of the government of Mexico toward Texas?
It encouraged American settlement in Texas in the 1820's and early 1830's
Which of the following statements is true of the Kansas Nebraska act?
It led directly to the formation of the Republican Party
Why was the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson important?
It ruled that segregation was constitutional
It should be unlawful for a negro and a white person to play together or in company with eachother at any game of pool of billards. No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls. It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the benefit, use and enjoyment of white persons. What are these quotation examples of
Jim Crow laws
In the mid 1850s, the struggle over Kansas saw
John Brown murder several pro-slavery settlers.
At the conclusion of president Andrew johnsons impeachment trial,
Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote.
Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House after
Lee recognized the futility of continued fighting.
In the 1840s the government of Mexico
Moved from favoring to opposing American immigration into Texas
When the war ended, newly freed slaves did all of the following EXCEPT
Moved in masses to the northern states
One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by
Nat Turner
The copperheads were
Northern Democrats who opposed the Union war effort
Reconstruction ended in part because
Northerners lost interest
The ideology of the Free soil included
Opposition to the expansion of slavery
The Republican Party originated in the mid 1850s as a sectional party committed to which of the Following?
Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories
The most common form of resistance on the part of the African American slaves prior to the civil war was
Passive resistance, including breaking tools and slightly slowing the pace of work
In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to
Preserve the Union
During the civil war, the confederate government raised most of taxes funds by
Printing paper currency
All of the following elements of the Radical Republican program were implemented during are EXCEPT
Provision of 40 acres to each freedman
During reconstruction, the southern school system
Reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876
All of the following were parts of Andrew Johnsons plan for reconstruction EXCEPT
Requiring payment of monetary reparations for the damage caused by the war
The public finally accepted Seward's purchase of Alaska because
Russia had been the only great power friendly to the union during the civil war
To "manumit" means to
Set free
At the end of the Civil War, the vast majority of freed slaves found work as
Sharecroppers
The "peculiar institution" was a southern reference to
Slavery
The crittenden compromise found its greatest support in
Southern senators.
During reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to
Southern white republicans
The main goal of the klu klux klans terror was to
Terrorize blacks to keep them from voting
Why did congressional Reconstruction end in 1877
The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election
Which of the following was NOT used by Southerners in defense of the institution of slavery
The constitution protected slavery in the south, and abolished it only north of the Ohio river and the Mason Dixon line
Which of the following defines 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
The legacy of Reconstruction included all of the following EXCEPT
The solid South and the rise of the redeemers or Bourbons
All of the following contributed to the causes of the Mexican war EXCEPT
The spot resolutions
Which of the following provisions of the compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850s
The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law
Which of the following is a restriction that the Mexican government put on the settlers of the Texas Territory in 1821 and 1823
They had to follow the Roman Catholic religion
In 1836, the battle of San Jancito
To independence for Texas
Which of these terms BEST describes General William T Sherman's burning of Atlanta and his "march to the sea"?
Total war
The question of the boundary of the Oregon territory and the heated debate over the "fifty four forty or fight" was finally settled by
Treaty
The 1857 lecompton constitution was
Twice rejected by a majority of the Kansas voters
The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was the
Underground Railroad
The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ending the Mexican War included
United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico
Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum south?
Up to one-third of families were broken apart by the sale of family members.
The major battle in the western theater during the civil war which had the effect of splitting the confederacy in half was
Vicksburg
The fifteenth amendment provided for
Voting rights for former slaves
To support the claim that the Fifteenth Amendment failed to fulfill its promise for nearly a century, a historian would most likely cite which of the following as evidence?
Voting rights were still denied
In the 1840s critics of territorial expansion by the United stated
Warned it would increase the controversy over slavery
The assasination of Abraham Lincoln
Was a clamity for the south
The 1856 beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the Untied States Senate
Was a vicious assault carried by a member of the House of Representatives
During the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates, it became clear that Lincoln
Was opposed to the extension of slavery to the territories
The state admitted to the union during the civil war was
West Virginia
The so-called border states at the time of the outbreak of the Civil War were those states
Which might but did not join the confederacy
During reconstruction, most "carpetbaggers" were
White northerners who moved to the south
General Grant's Union forces attacked General Lee's Confederate forces in the month-long
Wilderness Campaign
The key to victory for the untied states in the Mexican war was
Winfield Scotts seizure of Mexico City
The "aroostook war" involved
a battle between American and Canadian lumberjacks over the northern Maine boundary
In 1845 the immediate cause of war with Mexico was
a dispute over territory.
In the confederacy, a military draft
aroused opposition from poorer whites for its expensive substitute policy.
General Ulysses S. Grant's basic strategy in the Civil War involved
assailing the enemy's armies simultaneously
The British-American dispute over the border of Maine was solved
by a compromise that gave each side some territory
Which of these strategic objectives did the North accomplish last during the civil war?
capturing the Confederate capital of Richmond
In 1861 the so called Trent affair
created an international diplomatic crisis for Abraham Lincoln.
The confiscation act of 1861
declared that slaves used by Confederate states in the war effort were free.
The 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act was designed to help
education
In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
entered the White House with no political experience.
In the American slave family,
extended kinship networks were strong and important.
In the election of 1864, president Abraham Lincoln
faced a Democratic opponent who was a former Union general.
During the civil war, "greenbacks" issued by the federal government
fluctuated in value depending on the fortunes of the Northern armies.
Prior to 1860, southern white women
generally lived lives that were isolated from the wider world.
In part, President Lincoln refrained from taking action to emancipate slaves until the Civil War had been in progress for almost two years because
he sought to retain the loyalty of the border States
Taxes enacted by the United States Congress to help finance the Civil War
included a new income tax.
The passage of the fugitive slave act
intensified the debate over slavery.
In coining the phrase "Manifest Destiny," journalist John L. O'Sullivan meant that
it was the destiny of America to overspread the continent
All of the following led Congress to impose Radical Reconstruction measures EXCEPT the
massive exodus of former slaves from the South
One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation
might give more power to the supporters of slavery
Southern, white, lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in
mountain regions
The congressional "gag rule" stipulated that
no antislavery petitions would be formally received by Congress
Most white southerners owned
no slaves
As president, Andrew Johnson
offered amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.
Regarding religion, American slaves
often incorporated African features into their Christianity.
The primary goal of Commodore Matthew Perrys Treaty with Japan in 1854 was
opening Japan to American trade
During the civil war as a result of new technology in weapons,
organized infantry did not fight in formation.
In the 1850s, in an effort to undercut the Fugitive slave act, some northern states
passed laws preventing the deportation of fugitive slaves.
Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor of pre-Civil War southern whites was their
perception of white racial superiority.
The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to
place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people
Before the early 1850s, Americans who traveled west on the overland trails were generally
relatively young people who traveled in family groups.
The battle of Gettysburg
represented the last time Confederate forces seriously threatened Union territory.
The unions national draft law
resulted in murderous attacks in New York City against free blacks.
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court
ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories because slaves were private property.
All of the following were ways African American males were deprived of the right to vote in the south EXCEPT
segregation
Prior to 1860, the center of economic power in the South
shifted from the upper South to the lower South.
In a final letter before he was hanged, John brown stated that "the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood". What crime was john brown mainly referring to?
slavery
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to
strengthen the moral cause of the Union
The reconstruction Acts of 1867 provided for
temporary Union military supervision of the ex-Confederacy
In 1860 and 1861, president James Buchanan asserted
that the federal government had no authority to stop a state from seceding from the Union.
The wilmot proviso specifically provided for
the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
What was the intent of the union war strategy known as the Anaconda plan?
to surround the Confederacy and squeeze it to death
In the California gold rush
upwards of ninety-five percent of the "Forty-niners" were men.
In 1861, the first battle of manassas
was a victory for the Confederates.
Politically, the Confederate constitution
was almost identical in many respects to the Constitution of the United States.
The peninsular campaign in 1862
was an example of General McClellan's conservative approach to battle.
The tenure of office act
was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority.
When president Andrew Johnson removed secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton without the approval of the senate, contrary to the terms of the recently passed Tenure of Office Act, he
was impeached and came within one vote of being removed from office
The 1854 Ostend manifesto
was part of an attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba.
The panic of 1873
was the nation's worst economic depression to that time.
A key issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates was
whether the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision.
Lincoln won the presidency
with an electoral majority derived only from the North