unit 5 exam

During Reconstruction, which of following was a change that took place in the South?

African Americans were able to exercise political rights.

After 1863, which of the following most fulfilled the "new birth of freedom" that the excerpt refers to?

Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

Which of the following was the most significant impact of the South's expansion described in the excerpt?

Conflict over the future of slavery

Which of the following most directly contributed to "the sharp increase of immigration after 1845" referenced in the excerpt?

Crop failures and revolutions in Europe

Which of the following most directly contributed to the conflict referred to in the excerpt?

Disagreements over whether to allow slavery in new territories

Which of the following could best be used as evidence to support the argument in the excerpt that "ethnic conflict among whites rivaled sectional conflict as a major political issue" of the period?

Growing concern about the political and cultural influence of Catholic immigrants

The advice in the excerpt most directly reflects the influence of which of the following prevailing American ideas?

Manifest Destiny

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

Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories

Based on the excerpt, Calhoun would also be most likely to support which of the following?

Proslavery arguments

The Republican Party of the 1850s 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 most likely supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

Southern Democrats

Which of the following was the most immediate result of the decision in the excerpt?

Support grew for the Republican Party.

Which of the following invalidated the decision in the excerpt?

The Fourteenth Amendment

The decision in the excerpt held which of the following to be unconstitutional?

The Missouri Compromise

Which of the following events best represents a continuity of the sentiments expressed by Senator Calhoun in the speech?

The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

Which of the following developments from the 1800s emerged from ideas most similar to those expressed in the excerpt?

The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The policies advocated by Marshall had most in common with which of the following developments in other periods in United States history?

The attempts by the federal government to foster economic opportunities for former slaves after the Civil War

The population trend described in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following domestic developments in the nineteenth century?

The belief that it was the Manifest Destiny of the United States to control territory across the continent

Which of the following occurred during Radical Reconstruction?

The formation of the Ku Klux Klan

The conflict described in the excerpt is most similar to conflict in what other period?

The period from after the First World War through the 1920s

Which of the following late-nineteenth-century federal actions most directly supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

The sale of land to settlers at low cost

Arguments similar to those expressed in the excerpt were later employed to justify which of the following?

The secession of most Southern states

Which of the following was true of the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases and the 1883 Civil Rights cases?

They weakened the protections given to African Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment.

The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following developments in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Westward expansion

The situation depicted in the image best serves as evidence of the

expansion of federal power

Lincoln's main purpose in the excerpt was to

gain continued support for the war effort

During the Civil War, the Republican Party passed legislation promoting economic development concerning all of the following EXCEPT the

granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods

After the Civil War, women reformers and former abolitionists were divided over

legislation that ensured the voting rights of African American males

The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the

passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act

All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the

passage of the Wilmot Proviso

During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the

spread of sharecropping

The image most strongly supports the argument that Reconstruction

temporarily altered race relations in the South

Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in

urban areas of the North

The excerpt best supports the conclusion that in the 1850s, the United States government

was willing to intimidate Asian countries like Japan to secure economic opportunities