APUSH FINAL - Chapters 13, 14, and 15
What was the spark for a deadly riot in New York in 1863?
A military draft
Who questioned President Polk's right to declare war by introducing a resolution to Congress requesting that the president specify the precise spot where blood had first been shed?
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson:
lacked Lincoln's political skills and keen sense of public opinion.
The most ambitious, but least successful, of the Radical Republicans' aims was :
land reform.
American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s:
led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials.
The Bargain of 1877:
led to the appointment of a southerner as postmaster general.
The Freedmen's Bureau:
made notable achievements in improving African American education and health care .
The Fourteenth Amendment:
marked the most important change in the US Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
The US supreme court ruled in the Slaughterhouse Cases that:
most rights of citizens were under the control of state governments rather than the federal government.
The California gold rush:
resulted in laws that discriminated against "foreign miners"
With the beginning of Radical Reconstruction, southern African Americans in the late 1860s and early 1870s took direct action to remedy long standing grievances. These actions included:
sit- ins that helped to integrate horse-drawn streetcars in southern cities.
At the first Battle of Bull Run:
spectators from the city came with picnic baskets to watch.
The Enforcement Acts, passed by Congress in 1870 and 1871 , were designed to :
stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the Klu Klux Klan .
With regard to civil liberties during the Civil War, President Lincoln:
suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the United States because
the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery and they preferred to avoid it .
IN the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States gained the most territory through:
wars with Mexico
Sharecropping:
was preferred by African Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision).
The election of 1876:
was tainted by claims of fraud in Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
Which American naval officer negotiated a treaty that opened two Japanese ports to U.S. ships in 1854?
Matthew Perry
The term "Californios" referred in the 1830s and 1840s to ___________ in California .
Mexican Cattle ranchers
The major Confederate army in the East, commanded by Robert E. Lee, was called the Army of :
Northern Virginia
Besides ending slavery, the Civil War had what result?
Northern capitalists and industrialists came to dominate on the national scene, taking power away from the former southern slaveholder.
"Fifty - four forty or fight " referred to demands for American control of:
Oregon
What did Andrew Johnson focus on with his Reconstruction Plan?
Presidential pardons.
Why specifically did Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan fail?
Prominent ex- Confederates and pre-Civil War elite came into power.
One aspect of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for what?
Protection of Large Mexican landowners in California
According to John L. O'Sullivan's 'Democratic Review,' what was the key to the history of the nations and the rise and fall of empires?
Race
In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the ________________ , which created new state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the South.
Reconstruction Act
As he entered the White House, which of James K. Polk's goals led to war ?
Settling the slavery dispute
What did fighting a defensive war mean for the Confederates (south) ?
Since the weapon technology was basically equal, it was an advantage for the Confederates (south) .
Why did slavery become more central to american politics in the 1840s ?
Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave .
What was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850?
The New Mexico and Utah Territories would use popular sovereignty to decide about slavery.
Through analyzing the "sharecropping contract" what can be determined?
The contract was a type of economic slavery.
How did Reconstruction leave an enduring legacy?
The nation's first African American colleges were established.
Which of the following statements related to ethnicity was true in California in the 1850s?
Thousands of Indian Children were declared orphans and treated as slaves
The Souther Black Codes:
allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly contracts.
The Free Soil Party:
demonstrated that antislavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks.
Lincoln's second inaugural address:
described the Civil War as divine punishment.
The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863:
did not apply to the border slave states that had not seceded.
During the Mexican War:
for the first time, Us troops occupied a foreign capital .
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:
gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement.
Black officeholders during Reconstruction:
helped ensure a degree of fairness in treatment of African - American citizens.
White farmers in the late nineteenth century South:
included many sharecroppers involved in the crop-lien system .
Until the 1780s, who in essence controlled the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande?
Comanches
In July 1863, the Union won two key victories that are often identified as turning points in the war. These victories occurred at :
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.
What separated Grant from the other Union generals who commanded the Army of Potomac?
Grant was willing to wage a war of attrition.
What early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment by the US House of Representatives?
He allegedly violated the Tenure of Office Act.
What did Andrew Johnson do with the land of plantation owners seized during the Civil War?
He returned it to the original owners.
Who wrote on "Civil Disobedience" as a response to the US war with Mexico
Henry David Thoreau
The opening of Japan to United States led to what?
Japan became a modernized military power.