unit 4 exam
violation of the tenure of office act in removing secretary of war edwin m stanton
jackson was impeached and nearly removed from office on the grounds of his...
making a martyr of john brown and convincing many southerners that secession fro the union was the only way they could prevent the increasingly abolitionist north from interfering w slavery in the south
john brown's raid on the federal arsenal at harper's ferry and his subsequent trial and execution had the effect of...
kansas nebraska act (1854), dred scott case decision, lincoln douglas debates, election of lincoln, south carolina secedes
put these events in chronological order
his realization that fishing rights in alaskan waters would be a boon to american fisherman
scretary of state william seward's purchase of alaska fromthe russians in 1867 was based primarily on...
guaranteed equal protection under the law for american citizen
the 14th amendment to the constitution was important because it
negotiation of the purchase of alaska from russia
the term 'seward's folly' referred to secretary of state william seward's
it nearly led to british recognition of the confederacy and war between britain and the union
the trent affair was important because...
slavery should be prohibited in the lands acquired as a result of the mexican war
the wilmot proviso stipulated that...
free soilers
the wilmot proviso was most likely to be supported by...
was impeached and came within one vote of being removed from office
when president andrew johnson removed secretary of war edward m. stanton without thr approval of the senate, contrary to the terms of the recently passed tenure of office act, he...
preserving the union
abraham lincoln took the union into war against the confederate states of america with the stated purpose of...
it prohibited slavery in the lands acquired between the state of texas and the and the territory of new mexico should be ceded to new mexico
all are true ofthe compromise of 1850 except...
confederate industry was never able to adequately supply confederate soldiers with the armaments they needed to successfully fight the war
all of the following are true of the confederate war effort during the civil war except...
it was not widely read until ten years after its publication
all of the following comments would apply to uncle tom's cabin except...
an end to reconstruction
by the compromise of 1877 the democrats agreed to allow the republican candidate to become president in exchange for...
upper south states such as virginia and kentucky
duringthe 1850s tobacco was grown primarily in...
the expansion of the railroad network
improvements in america's transportation system in the 1850s were primarily the result of...
accomplished some notable achievements and were comparable in their effectiveness to the pre civil war governmentthwt preceeded them
in general, state government inthe south during reconstruction...
any territory desiring to exlude slavery could do so simply by declining to pass laws protecting it
in his famous 'freeport doctrine' set forth in his debate w abraham lincoln at freeport illinois, stephen douglas stated that...
attempt to reinstitute slavery
in response to johnson's relatively mild reconstruction program, the southern states did all of the following except...
order the arrest and imprisonment of of former confederate soldiers
in response to southern intransigence in the face of president andrew johnson's mild reconstruction plan, congress did all of the following except...
ridding the south of the recontruction governments
in speaking of 'redemption' in a political sense, white southerners of the reconstruction era had reference to...
southerners who supported or participated in the reconstruction regimes
in speaking of 'scalawags', white southerners of the reconstruction era had reference to...
existence of a two party system w intersectional memebership
in the 60 years after the consitiutional convention, compromise over questions relating to slavery had been possible because of the...
polk won a large election mandate for manifest destiny
in the election of 1844...
he gathered overwhelming support in the highly populated northern states while his three opponents divided the anti-lincoln cote in the north, west, and south
lincoln won the 1860 presidential election primarily because...
preventing the former slaves from voting
organizations such as the ku klux klan were organized in a number of southern states after the civil war for the purpose of...
it signaled the end of the wooden war shipas the ultimate naval vessel and marked the beginning of the steel/iron warships
the battle between the monitor and merrimack was important because...
chattanooga
the battle that is considered to be the "turning point" of the civil war and the last chance at a military victory by the confederacy is...
failed to change basic white attitudes in the south and they were unable to effectively reorganize the south's social structure
the biggest failure of reconstruction governments was that they...
positioning and evading rather than resolving the problems related to slavery in american territories west of the mississippi
the compromise of 1850 had the effect of...
the ascension of republican rutherford b hayes to the presidency in return for the passage of an amnesty act which would pardon former confederate soldiers, allowing them to regain their voting rights
the compromise of 1877 resulted in...
brought an end to congressional reconstruction
the compromise of 1877...
the kansas nebraska act
the demise of the whig party and the rise of the republican party resulted primarily from...
they led to the rapid indsutrialization of the old south following the civil war
the establishment of transcontinental rail lines and the construction of america's massive rail network had all of the following effect expect...
allowed slavery north of the line agreed upon in the missouri compromise, effectively repealing it
the kansas nebraska act of 1854 created a firestorm of opposition because it...
the fall of atlanta to general sherman
the key event that guaranteed lincoln's reelection in 1864 was...
the federal government should permit no further spread of slavery in the territories
the main issue of the 1850s free soil party was that...
the anaconda plan
the overall strategic policy of the union to destroy the confederacy through a combination of constant pressure and slowly wearing down the south's ability to wage war was called...
northern voters had grown weary of the effort to reconstruct the south and generally lost interest
the primary underlying reason that reconstruction ended in 1877 was that...
a central feature of the kansas-nebraska act
the principle of 'popular sovereignty' was...
the u.s navy's seizure of confederate emissaries james m. mason and john slidell from the british mail steamer trent
which of the following factors came closest to giving the confederacy what could have been a decisive foreign policy success during the civil war?
it led directly to the formation of the republican party
which of the following statements is true of the kansas-nebraska act ?
it provided for the restoration of of loyal governments for the east while confederate states now under union control
which one of the following statements is true of lincoln's ten percent plan?
