Unit 5

Lincoln's rhetoric in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting which of the following arguments?

Changing the purpose of the war would strengthen the Union cause.

The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intended to resolve debates about which of the following issues in the 1850s?

The expansion of slavery

People who shared the views expressed in the image most likely supported which of the following?

The extension of political opportunities to formerly enslaved people

The change in society claimed by the artist in the image was most challenged by

the ending of Reconstruction.

John C. Calhoun, senator, speech in the United States Senate, 1847. Which of the following can be concluded based on the situation in which Calhoun gave this speech?

Americans debated how to integrate conquered territories into the United States.

Which of the following developments in labor systems in the United States before the Civil War is reflected by the data in the graph?

An internal trade in enslaved people spread throughout the South.

Which of the following developments was most directly connected to the collapse of the Whig Party in United States politics during the 1850s?

The escalation of tensions between proslavery and antislavery factions

Frederick Douglass to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, 1846. Ideas in the excerpt would most likely have influenced which of the following?

Efforts at assisting enslaved people in escaping from the South

John C. Calhoun, senator, speech in the United States Senate, 1847. The excerpt best provides evidence about which of the following historical situations in the late 1840s?

Growing sectional tensions caused by the Mexican-American War

President Abraham Lincoln, a letter to James Conkling explaining why he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863. The phrase in the excerpt "Some of them seem willing to fight for you" could most likely be interpreted as having which of the following purposes?

Highlighting the enlistment of formerly enslaved people into the Union army.

President Abraham Lincoln, letter to James Conkling explaining why he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863. The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following?

How Lincoln used executive powers to initiate wartime policy

Thomas Hietala, historian, Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire, 2003. Which of the following arguments about the Mexican-American War do the excerpts best support?

It generated debates over citizenship.

Which of the following claims is supported by the arguments made by both Levine and Langguth?

Local political tactics served to deny African Americans their rights.

Levine's argument about Reconstruction in the excerpt differs from that of Langguth in that Levine argues.

Northern Republicans gradually withdrew their support for Reconstruction policies

James H. Carson, describing life in the early California gold fields, 1848. Which of the following developments resulted most directly from the gold rush described in the excerpt?

People from America, Europe, and Asia migrated to the region.

The Fourteenth Amendment emerged from which of the following contexts?

Republican concerns that African Americans would be denied citizenship rights

Waitman T. Willey, addressing the Virginia State Secession Convention, March 4, 1861. Which of the following conclusions can best be reached based on the sentiments expressed in the excerpt?

Sectional tensions erupted because most Southerners did not support Abraham Lincoln.

Which of the following groups would most likely have supported secession from the United States after the 1860 presidential election?

Southern Democrats

Waitman T. Willey, addressing the Virginia State Secession Convention, March 4, 1861. Evidence in the excerpt most strongly suggests which of the following?

Southern voters viewed the presidential election with contempt.

Which of the following describes a trend in sectional development by 1860 reflected in the data in the graph?

The North was becoming more diverse in its economic activities than the South.

Which of the following differences between the North and the South during the Civil War is depicted in the graph?

The South relied more on plantation agriculture than the North.

James H. Carson, describing life in the early California gold fields, 1848. Which of the following developments most directly led to the activities described in the excerpt?

The acquisition of significant territory following the Mexican-American War

Thomas Nast, "Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner," 1869, drawn in support of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The conclusion of the Civil War stirred debates over citizenship.

Thomas Hietala, historian, Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire, 2003. Both authors would most likely suggest that the historical situation described in the excerpts contributed to which of the following?

The continued alteration of Native American culture and society

The industrial resources of the North during the Civil War most likely accounted for which of the following?

The disadvantage of the Confederacy in access to arms, munitions, and other supplies

John C. Calhoun, senator, speech in the United States Senate, 1847. The speech given by Calhoun relates to which of the following?

The effect of regional attitudes on federal policy making

Frederick Douglass to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, 1846. The excerpt could best be used by historians studying which of the following?

The growth of the abolition movement in the United States

Frederick Douglass to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, 1846. Rhetoric in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting which of the following?

The immediate end to the practice of slavery through legal reform

Which of the following developments most directly related to the increased sectional strife immediately prior to the election of 1860?

The legal ruling that denied African Americans rights of citizenship

James H. Carson, describing life in the early California gold fields, 1848. The excerpt best reflects the development of which of the following?

The widely held belief that the United States had a right to expand westward

Which of the following arguments about Reconstruction policies would both authors most likely disagree with?

With Republicans in retreat, Southern Democrats grew more supportive of Reconstruction policies.

Waitman T. Willey, addressing the Virginia State Secession Convention, March 4, 1861. The excerpt best serves as evidence that, in 1861...

citizens in the Southern states were deeply divided over secession

Thomas Hietala, historian, Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire, 2003. Greenberg's argument most differs from Hietala's in that Greenberg claims that...

most Americans believed that Mexicans in the new territories could not assimilate