APUSH Test Re-Learning

16. Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT

the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery

3. The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it

forestalled the possibility of European intervention

2. Which of the following did NOT contribute to the perception of many White Southerners that antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s?

Congress voted to end the interstate slave trade.

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

African Americans were able to exercise political rights.

26. The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs EXCEPT

Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base.

11. Which of the following statement about the Dred Scott decision is correct?

It stated that Black people were not citizens of the United States.

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

passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act

20. "The question is simply this: can a negro whose ancestors were imported into this country and sold as slaves become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen, one of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court of the United States in the cases specified in the Constitution? . . . It is the judgment of this court that it appears . . . that the plaintiff in error is not a citizen . . . in the sense in which that word is used in the Constitution."United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857. Which of the following was the most immediate result of the decision in the excerpt?

Support grew for the Republican Party.

22. Which of the following factors contributed most directly to the end of slavery in the United States?

The Union victory in the Civil War led to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

27. "We are just now making a great pretense of anxiety to civilize the [American] Indians. . . . As we have taken into our national family seven millions of Negroes . . . it would seem that the time may have arrived when we can very properly make at least the attempt to assimilate our two hundred and fifty thousand Indians. . . ."The school at Carlisle is an attempt on the part of the government to do this. . . . Carlisle fills young Indians with the spirit of loyalty to the stars and stripes, and then moves them out into our communities to show by their conduct and ability that the Indian is no different from the white or the colored, that he has the inalienable right to liberty and opportunity that the white and the negro have."Richard H. Pratt, founder, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, "The Advantages of Mingling Indians with Whites," 1892. Which of the following developments would the author have been most likely to use to support his assertion that African Americans had joined the United States "national family"?

The ratification of constitutional amendments during Reconstruction

5. "We have conquered many of the neighboring tribes of Indians, but we have never thought of holding them in subjection—never of incorporating them into our Union....To incorporate Mexico, would be the very first instance of the kind of incorporating an Indian race; for more than half of the Mexicans are Indians, and the other is composed chiefly of mixed tribes.... Ours, sir, is the Government of a white race.... [I]t is professed and talked about to erect these Mexicans into a Territorial Government, and place them on an equality with the people of the United States. I protest utterly against such a project."Senator John C. Calhoun, "Conquest of Mexico" speech, 1848 The excerpt most directly reflects which of the following developments in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Westward expansion

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

expansion of federal power

24. In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with

protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves

23. The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established

that suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude

15. The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was "a rich man's war but a poor man's fight" was reflected in

the draft riots in New York City