apush period 5 test review (wip)
Opposition to the Homestead Act of 1860 included all of the following EXCEPT
free-soilers who feared the legislation would tip the political balance against the South
In the beginning, President Lincoln's mission in the Civil War was to...
preserve the union
All of the following were true of the Walker Tariff of 1846 except that it
proved to be a poor revenue producer.
The primary purpose of the Gadsden Purchase of 1854 was to
provide land for a proslavery southern railroad route to California.
Fatal weaknesses of the Confederate government included all of the following except
the governor of Georgia seceded from the secession and fought both sides.
The biggest challenge Confederate president Jefferson Davis faced was
ongoing tension between states' rights and the need for a unified central government
Commodore Matthew C. Perry was best known for
opening Japan to U.S. trade
The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of which policy for the territories?
popular sovereignty
The border ruffians were
proslavery Missourians who rushed into Kansas to vote illegally and battle antislavery forces there.
Stephen A. Douglas argued, in his Freeport Doctrine, during the Lincoln-Douglas debates that
slavery would remain illegal if the people of a territory voted it down, regardless of the Supreme Court's contrary decision in the Dred Scott case.
Crucial battle in Maryland that triggered the release of the Emancipation Proclamation
antietam
Location of the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant
appotamox
The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vise president to
attract the vote of the states' rightists
The two final, extremely bloody battles in which Grant frontally assaulted Lee's forces were
b. the Wilderness and Cold Harbor.
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
b. was a substantial political calamity for the South.
which states did lincoln not want to secede
border states
The Copperheads were
c. Northern Democrats who opposed the Union war effort.
In the early nineteenth century, the British generally viewed Americans as
crude and half-civilized cheaters and violators of international law.
The black soldiers' brave and valuable service in the Union Army
d. strengthened their case for full citizenship after the Civil War.
After his victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, General Ulysses Grant became identified with the Union policy of
d. unconditional surrender.
The battle at Antietam is considered a decisive moment in the Civil War for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
it marked the advent of ironclad ships.
The most immediate result of James Polk's successful Manifest Destiny campaign was
the annexation of Texas to the United States.
Texas War of Independence
1836
James K. Polk elected
1844
U.S. Mexican war begins
1846
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1848
In his first term, President Polk developed a four-point program of goals that included all of the following EXCEPT
Acquisition of Cuba
The Manifest Destiny slogan "Fifty-four Forty or Fight" referred to
American demands for acquiring all of the Oregon territory from Britain.
All of the following caused tension between the United States and Britain except
British authors were granted rich royalties by American Copyright law
Besides the border states that retained slavery, the region of the North where an antislavery Civil War was most unpopular was the
Butternut region of southern Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
Which of the following was the most serious hardship encountered by soldiers on both sides of the Civil War?
Disease
Which of the following was NOT true of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820
What made the Ostend Manifesto so controversial?
It was a secret plan by the United States to buy or take Cuba.
California Gold Rush
Jan. 1848
the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo contained all of the following except
Mexico would retain Texas but cede California to the U.S.
capital of wartime capital for confederates
Montgomery, Alabama Richmond, Virginia
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
Capital of the Confederate States of America
Richmond, Virginia
Despite Abraham Lincoln's impressive and persuasive seven performances in the Lincoln-Douglas Senate debates in 1858
Senator Stephen Douglas defeated Lincoln.
During the campaign of 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party took which of the following positions on slavery?
Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new states
Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?
The election of 1860
Which of these agreements was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850, which kept the Union together?
The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia
two major political parties in 1848
Whigs and democrat
Each of the following occurred during the Mexican-American War except
William B. Travis and his men were annihilated at the Alamo.
Initially in doubt, Lincoln's reelection was ultimately secured as voting day neared in 1864 by
a series of Union military victories.
The Emancipation Proclamation freed
slaves in the Confederacy
In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic party
split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate
The British government desired a political and military alliance with the independent Republic of Texas because
such an alliance would limit the ability of the United States to achieve political and economic dominance over Latin America.
During the Civil War, President Lincoln
suspended the precious privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, so that anti-Unionists might be summarily arrested.
All of the following were true of the Dred Scott decision except that
the Missouri Compromise, banning slavery north of 36° 30', was repealed.
As presented to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution provided for
the admission of Kansas as a slave state.
Undoubtedly the most durable political offspring of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was
the emergence of the new Republican political party.
The panic of 1857
was caused in part by California gold pouring in and inflating the currency.
All of the following were true of the Republican Party except that it
was generally south of the Mason-Dixon line.
The Union's establishment of the National Banking System
was the first significant step toward a unified banking network since 1836.
the territory of the mexican cession was automatically covered under the Wilmot Proviso
false
General William Tecumseh Sherman is most remembered for his
march to the sea
All of the following were true of the California Gold Rush except
the least reliable profits were made by those who charged outrageous rates for laundry and other personal services.
Banking and commercial centers of the North favored compromise in 1850 to avoid secession
true
The scheme to seize Cuba and turn it into several new slave states
urged that the administration offer $120 million for Cuba.
Fortress of the Mississippi whose captures split the Confederacy in two
vicksburg
Prior to the attack on Fort Sumter, which state was NOT part of the confederacy?
virginia
To fill the Union army's demand for troops, the North relied, prior to 1863, mainly on
volunteers.
Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South
was banned and burned throughout the South.
Women made particular advances during the Civil War by
entering industrial employment and providing medical aid for soldiers on both sides.
The primary weakness of General George McClellan as a military commander was his
excessive caution and reluctance to use his troops in battle
The public liked popular sovereignty because it
fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination
Which one of the following slave states remained in the United States throughout the Civil War?
maryland
One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation
might give more power to the supporters of slavery.
As the Civil War began, the South seemed to have the advantage of
more talented military leaders.
Southerners were particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because
northerners' celebration of Brown as a martyr seemed to indicate their support for slave insurrection
Symbolically important, the 1846 Wilmot Proviso stated that
slavery should never be established in the territories acquired from Mexico
Which of the following statements was NOT an argument against the Fugitive Slave Act?
Accused fugitive slaves lacked the rights of due process and fair trials
The group that was instrumental in saving the soil of Oregon for the United States was
American Christian missionaries to the Indians.
Site where Lee's last major invasion of the North was turned back
gettysburg
Lincoln named Andrew Johnson as his vice presidential running mate in 1864 because
c. Johnson was a War Democrat and Union loyalist from the South.
The reaction of most Northerners to John Brown was to
condemn the raid on Harper's Ferry but mourn Brown as a martyr after his execution.
At the Democratic convention of 1860, Senator Stephen Douglas
could not muster the necessary two-thirds vote, so the entire body dissolved.
John Tyler joined the Whig party because he
could not stomach the dictatorial tactics of Andrew Jackson
all of the following were true of Whigs' gripes with John Tyler except
he was impeached by the House of Representatives
Lincoln stated that he believed that the black race was
inferior but entitled to the same natural rights as white people.
The Free Soil Party condemned the expansion of slavery primarily because it
destroyed opportunities for white workers to rise from wage-earning dependence to independent ownership.
Lincoln's victory in the Election of 1864 was
e. in doubt until the great Union victories in the Battles of Atlanta and Mobile Bay.
All of the following were true of Sherman's march except
e. it had relatively little significance either militarily or politically.
The supreme test of American democracy in the nineteenth century was
e. the Civil War.
Fugitive Slave Act
1850
Civil War Begins
1865
Possessing ________ percent of the national wealth in 1860, the South claimed only ________ percent of the national wealth in 1870.
30, 12
The British-American dispute over the border of Maine and Canada was solved
by a negotiated political compromise that gave each side some territory along the disputed border.
The North's greatest strength in the Civil War was its
economy, particularly its greater manufacturing capacity and more efficient and extensive railroad network.
The political career of Abraham Lincoln could best be described as
largely a failure until his meteoric rise after 1854.
The idea that the United States was foreordained to become an expanding nation and a transcontinental power was called
manifest destiny
Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by
popular sovereignty or democratic vote by the white male residents of each divided territory.