History Final ch 10-15
In 1864, General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea"
was designed to demoralize southerners.
The Tenure of Office Act
was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority.
All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT
Sydney Smith
Which of the following features was NOT a characteristic of the Hudson River School?
A Belief in democracy was the best source of wisdom & spiritual fulfillment
In the election of 1860,
Abraham Lincoln was elected with much less than 1/2 of the popular vote
All of the following slave states remained in the Union EXCEPT
Arkansas
Between 1840 and 1860, the overwhelming majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States came from
Ireland and Germany.
Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox Court House after
Lee recognized the futility of continued fighting.
The American Colonization Society helped to transport blacks from the United States to
Liberia.
One actual slave revolt in the nineteenth-century South was led by
Nat Turner
In 1844, President James K. Polk supported the acquisition of
Oregon and Texas.
In the 1840s, John Deere introduced significant improvements to the
Plow
As Republicans planned for Reconstruction,
Radicals sought a range of punishments for white southerners.
In 1836, the Battle of the Alamo
Saw the death of Davy Crockett
The first state to secede from the Union in 1860 was
South Carolina.
The main staple crop of the Old Northwest (today's Midwest) was
Wheat
In The Pro-Slavery Argument (1837), John C. Calhoun stated that slavery was
a "positive good."
n 1845, the immediate cause of war with Mexico was
a border dispute.
The Erie Canal was
a tremendous financial success.
The Battle of Vicksburg in 1863
allowed the North to split the Confederacy in two
At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves in the United States was
almost four million
The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California
along with a strengthened Fugitive Slave Act.
In the Battle of Gettysburg, in order to reach dug-in Union forces, General George Pickett's division had to cross
an open field
The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
argued Americans had a moral right to disobey the laws of the United States.
Mormonism
believed in human perfectibility
Prior to 1860, affluent southern white women
centered their lives in the home
The slave codes of the American South
defined anyone with a trace of African ancestry as black
The Freedmen's Bureau
distributed food to millions of southern blacks.
Between 1840 and 1860, the American South's slave population
dramatically shifted into the Southwest.
In the American slave family,
extended kinship networks were strong and important
Among his ideas, Booker T. Washington
favored industrial over classical education
Prior to 1860, public education in the United States
gave the nation one of the highest literacy rates in the world
Short-staple cotton
helped to keep the South a predominantly agricultural region.
Jim Crow laws
imposed a system of state-supported segregation
In the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln declared freedom for slaves
in the parts of the Confederacy still in rebellion.
The commercial and industrial growth in the United States prior to 1860 resulted in
increasing disparities in income between the rich and poor.
The 1848 Seneca Falls, New York convention on women's rights
issued a manifesto patterned after the Declaration of Independence.
In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States
linked alcohol to crime and poverty
Prior to 1860, the fastest-growing segment in American society was the
middle class
Most white southerners owned
no slaves.
In the 1850s, the issue of slavery complicated the proposal to build a transcontinental railroad, as
non-slave-owning northerners and slave-owning southerners could not agree on a route.
During Reconstruction, most "carpetbaggers" were
northern white veterans who moved to the South
As president, Andrew Johnson
offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.
In the 1820s and 1830s, railroads
played a relatively small role in the nation's transportation system.
Before the early 1850s, Americans who traveled west on the overland trails were generally
relatively young people who traveled in family groups
In 1867, Congressional plans for Reconstruction
required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males
For most American farmers, the 1840s and 1850s was a period of
rising prosperity due to increased world demand for farm products.
Frederick Douglass
spent years lecturing in England against slavery
The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to
spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience
From the selections below, the most common form of resistance to slavery was
subtle defiance.
At the start of the Civil War,
the North had a much more substantial economy
Following John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, many southerners assumed
the North was dominated by people intent on destroying the South
The political party that came into being largely in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was
the Republican Party
President Abraham Lincoln's "ten percent" plan for the South referred to
the number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government.
As the Lowell factory system progressed into the 1840s,
the owners increasingly used immigrants as their labor force.
During the 1840s, advances in journalism included all of the following EXCEPT
the technological means to reproduce photographs in newsprint.
In 1865, as a result of the Civil War, in the South
there were more women than men in most states.
General Ulysses S. Grant
thought the main Union effort should target enemy armies and resources
By the time of the Civil War, cotton constituted nearly ________ of the total export trade of the United States.
two-thirds
The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was the
underground railroad
