APUSH: Unit 5 Test Questions

Which of the following was not provided for African Americans by congressional Reconstruction?

Distribution of confiscated Confederate farmlands

The Confederate government was able to achieve which of the following goals?

Frequent victories over Union armies

A political effect of the fighting in Kansas in 1855 and 1856 was to

Further divide the Democratic Party

Northern advantages in the Civil War included all of huge following EXCEPT

General agreement over was aims

President Lincoln was reluctant to emancipate the slaves the first year of the Civil War because

He feared that emancipation would drive the border states out of the Union

The civil rights act of 1866 was significant because

I and III only

The leading Radical Republican in Congress included

I and IV (Charles Sumter and Thaddeus Stevens)

John Brown's primary purpose in attacking Harper's Ferry was to

Start a slave rebellion in Virginia

The "redeemers" in the South supported

States' rights and white supremacy

Which of the following most accurately describes the Stephen Douglas' idea of popular sovereignty?

The status of slavery in a territory would be determined by the voters in the territory.

Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was

Possible British recognition of the Confederacy

An analysis of the election of 1868 best supports to conclusion that

Republican victory depended on the votes of African Americans

Reconstruction legislation passed by congress included all of the following EXCEPT the

Black codes

In 1865, a number of southern states passed Black Codes in order to

Control movement and provide a stable work force for the plantations

All of the following were part of the initial Union strategy to win the Civil War EXCEPT

Emancipation of slaves in the seceded states

The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?

Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law

The purpose of Lincoln's and Johnson's for Reconstruction was to

Encourage rapid readmission of ex-Confederate states into the Union

For the period from the end of Reconstruction to 1900, the position of the Supreme Court toward civil rights is best characterized as

Establishing the constitutionally of segregation

All of the following figured prominently in debates over the Compromise of 1850 EXCEPT the

Extension of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska territories

In the 1850's, the South differed from the North in

Fewer European immigrants

During the Civil War, African Americans in the North

Fought in segregated regiments

The Lincoln-Douglas debates resulted in all of the following EXCEPT

Increased support for Douglas in the South

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 is a correct statement about the Wilmot Proviso?

It forbade the introduction of slavery into territory acquired from Mexico.

Which of the following is true of Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?

It provided for the restoration of the loyal governments for the erstwhile Confederate states now under Union control

Which of the following statements about the Dred Scott decision is correct?

It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.

Which of the following was a major factor in the decline of the Whig party in the 1850's?

Know-Nothing movement

All of the following statements about the election of 1860 are accurate EXCEPT:

Lincoln won election because of the split in the Democratic Party

Which of the following would have most likely have expressed opposition to the idea of Manifest Destiny?

Members of the Whig party in Congress during the Mexican War

The slave states that remained in the Union included

Missouri, Kentucky, and Delaware

The Republican Party originated in the mid-1850s as a sectional party committed to which of the following?

Opposition to the further expansion of slavery into the territories

In response to southern intransigence in the face of President Andrew Johnson's mild Reconstruction plan, Congress did all of the following EXCEPT

Order the arrest and imprisonment of former Confederate leaders

The most common form of resistance on the part of black Americans slaves prior to the Civil War was

Passive resistance, including breaking tools and slightly slowing the pace of work

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

The Freedmen's Bureau provided all of the following EXCEPT

Protection from sharecropping agreements

The economic impact of the Civil War included all of the following EXCEPT

Reduced rate of industrial production in the North

The Republican Reconstruction governments in the South accomplished all of the following EXCEPT

Reducing waste and corruption in local and state governments

The supreme court's decision in the Dred Scott case outraged public opinion in the North chiefly because it

Removed restrictions against the spread of slavery into the Western Territories

President Andrew Johnson was impeached for

Removing a radical republican from his cabinet

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased sectional tension because it

Reopened the issue of slavery in a territory North of the 36'30

All of the following were parts of Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction EXCEPT

Requiring payment of monetary reparations for the damage caused by the war

Senator Stephen A. Douglas managed to engineer the Compromise of 1850 by

Securing passage of the different parts of the Compromise as separate laws

All of the following were factors in the defeat of the South in 1865 EXCEPT

Slave uprisings against Southern plantations

In the 1860 election, what was the position of Lincoln and the Republican Party on slavery?

Slavery should not be allowed to expand into territories

What happened to Southern interest in slavery after Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831?

Southern states made it increasingly difficult for masters to free their slaves.

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 best describes an immediate effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?

The abolition of slavery in confederate territory became on of the North's war goals

The dramatic increase in the South's slave labor force between 1810 and 1860 was due to

The natural population increase of American-born slaves

"Forty acres and a mule" refers to

The proposal to make freed slaves small-scale farmers

In the early years of reconstruction, an important function of the Freedmen's Bureau was

The protection of the economic rights of former slaves

Which of the following states 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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel which brought home the evils of slavery to many in the North was

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Dred Scott decision held that a slave

Was a private property even in a free territory

When President Andrew Johnson removed the Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton without the approval of the Senate, contrary to terms of the recently passed Tenure of Office Act, he

Was impeached and came within one vote of being removed from office

The disputed boundary between Maine and Canada was settle by the

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

By the end of Reconstruction, most blacks in the South

Worked on farms as renters and sharecroppers