History 1301 Chapter 13, 14, and 15
Which of the following puts these Civil War battles in the proper chronological order, from first to last?
(II, I, IV, III) II. First Run Bull, I. Antietam, IV. Gettysburg, III. Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor
When did Great Britain abolish slavery in its empire?
1830s
In what year did slavery officially end in the Western Hemisphere?
1888
Approximately how many Union and Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War?
750,000
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
During the 1850's, 80 percent of the world's gold came from two places that experienced gold rushes at about the same time, California and:
Australia
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?
John Brown
During the secession winter of 1860-1861, who offered the most widely supported compromise plan in Congress, which allowed the westward extension of the Missouri Compromise line?
John Crittenden
The Republican presidential candidate in 1856 was:
John Fremont
Which Union general in Missouri decreed freedom to that state's slaves in 1861, a year before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
John Fremont
Which event sparked Abraham Lincoln to reenter politics?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In 1854, the Know-Nothings won all the congressional races as well as the governorship in:
Massachusetts
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
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 famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during the campaign for:
U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1858
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for all of the following EXCEPT:
U.S. control of all of the Oregon Country
In the Ex parte Milligan case, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that:
accused persons must be tired before civil courts where there were open rather than military tribunals
The canning of Charles Summer by Preston Brooks:
actually helped the new Republican Party.
During the early days of the war, the U.S. Congress adopted a resolution proposed by Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky that:
affirmed that the Union had no intention of interfering with slavery.
All of the following took place under the constitution and state laws of independent Texas EXCEPT:
allow Native Americans equal rights.
In the 1860 election, how many different presidential candidates won electoral votes?
four
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:
gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement
During the Civil War, northern Protestant ministers:
helped create a civic religion combining Christianity and patriotism
During the Civil War, black soldiers:
helped inspire Republicans to believe that emancipation also demanded equal rights before law.
When Democrats demanded the "re-annexation" of Texas in 1844, they:
implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase.
During his debate with Abraham Lincoln in Freeport, Illinois, Stephen Douglas:
insisted that popular sovereignty was compatible with the Dred Scott decision.
Monitor and Merrimac were:
ironclad ships
When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821:
its Indian population was relatively large compared to its non-Indian population.
What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?
its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
Among the Confederacy's advantages during the Civil War was:
its larger size, which made it more difficult for the Union to conquer
Colonel John Chivington is remembered for:
leading an attack that killed perhaps 400 Indian men, women, and children
American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s:
led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials.
The Republican free labor ideology:
led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible.
During the first two years of the war, Union forces were generally:
more successful in the West than the East.
On matters related to citizenship, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that:
only white persons could be U.S. citizens
"Greenback" was a Civil War-era nickname for:
paper money
Lincoln spoke of "a new birth of freedom" for the nation in his:
preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to:
prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico
The Lecompton Constitution was the:
proslavery constitution proposed for Kansas
The Democratic Party split in 1860 over the question of whether to:
protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty in them.
According to John L. O'Sullivan's Democratic Review, what was the key to the history of nations and the rise and fall of empires?
race
The opponents of the Compromise of 1850:
received a boost from President Zachary Taylor
The California gold rush:
resulted in laws that discriminated against "foreign miners."
In the 1850s, Tennessee-born William Walker became famous for:
seeking to establish himself a ruler of a slaveholding Nicaragua
The 1860 Republican platform stated all of the following EXCEPT that:
slavery should be abolished in the nation's capital.
At the first Battle of Bull Run:
spectators from the city came with picnic baskets to watch.
With regard to civil liberties during the Civil War, President Lincoln:
suspended the writ of habeas corpus
Economically, the Civil War led to:
the emergence of a nation-state committed to national economic development
At Antietam:
the nation suffered more casualties than on any other day in its history.
Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas the the United States because:
the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it.
The controversy over the arrest of Anthony Burns in 1854 shows:
the unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave Act in parts of the North.
The example of German immigrant Marcus Spiegel demonstrated that:
the views of average Americans evolved considerably during the course of the Civil War.
Lincoln's vision during the Civil War:
was that American nation embodied a set of universal ideals rooted in political democracy and human freedom.
Copperheads were:
what Republicans called northern opponents of the war.
General George McClellan did all of the following EXCEPT:
win major victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee.
The last nation in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery was:
Brazil
Who lobbied for the United States to endorse the First Geneva Convention of 1864?
Clara Barton
The American Civil War began in April 1861, when:
Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter
The Republican Party founded in the 1850s strongly endorsed the same policy about slavery in the territories that ____________ had begun advocating in 1846.
David Wilmot
In 1860, which state became first to pass an ordinance of secession and declare itself separated from the Union?
South Carolina
By 1856, the Republican Party included individuals who had been, until rather recently, members of each of the following political groups EXCEPT:
Federalists
Which of the following is NOT true of Abraham Lincoln's slavery policy during the first two years of the war?
He proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery immediately.
Which two political figures agreed to keep the issue of annexing Texas out of the 1844 presidential campaign if possible?
Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren
Who wrote On Civil Disobedience as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?
Henry David Thoreau
Which of the following is true of Jefferson Davis and his governing?
His administration actually suffered from the Confederacy's lack of political parties.
Which of the following put these events in the proper chronological order, from first to last?
II. Abraham Lincoln was elected president, IV. South Carolina seceded from the Union, III. Confederate States of America formed, I. Virginia seceded form the Union (II,IV,III,I....D)
In 1821, the opening of the Santa Fe Trail between Santa Fe and _________________ led to a reorientation of New Mexico's commerce from the rest of Mexico to the United States.
Independence, Missouri
Why did Mississippi politician Jefferson Davis object in the 1850s to the original design of the Statue of Freedom that now adorns the U.S. Capitol dome?
Its use of an ancient Roman liberty cap on "Freedom" raised a touchy matter about slaves' longing for freedom.
In the presidential election of 1860, the two candidates who received the most votes in the southern states were:
John Breckinridge and John Bell
From 1848 to 1860, most of the railroad construction was in which region?
Midwest
The major Confederate army in the East, commanded by Robert E. Lee, was called the Army of:
Northern VIrginia
"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of:
Oregon
Who was offered a command in the Union army, but declined because of his devotion to his native state?
Robert E. Lee
Which of the following countries did NOT go through some kind of popular upheaval in 1848?
Russia
The California gold rush turned __________ into perhaps the world's most diverse city.
San Francisco
James Polk had four clearly defined goals when he entered the White House. Which was NOT one of his goals?
Settle the slavery dispute
Which of the following is true of the Confederacy and Native Americans?
Slaveowning Indians generally supported the Confederate
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.
With the exception of Alaska, what was the last piece of territory acquired by the United States toward the solidification of its present boundaries in North America?
The Gadsden Purchase
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?
The Oregon territory would be created
Which 1854 document called for the United States to seize Cuba?
The Ostend Manifesto
Which of the following is an example of the political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Whig Party collapsed, and many disgruntled northerners joined the new Republican Party.
Which of the following is NOT true of the New York City riots of 1863?
They convinced Lincoln to delay issuing the Emancipation Proclamation
Clement Vallandigham was:
a northern politician banished to the Confederacy
The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment is best known as:
a regiment of free blacks who charged Fort Wagner, South Carolina
Captains of industry like steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and oil man John D. Rockefeller:
began creating or consolidating their fortunes during the Civil War.
During the Civil War, northern white women:
began obtaining jobs as government clerks
Stephen Douglas's motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:
boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
During the Civil War, the term "contraband camps" referred to:
camps of southern slaves who had escaped from their masters and entered the Union lines.
The U.S. Sanitary Commission:
coordinated war donations on the northern home front
The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court:
declared Congress could not ban slavery from territories.
The Free Soil Party:
demonstrated that antislavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks.
The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863:
did not apply to the boarder slave states that had not seceded.
Beginning in 1863, what did Frederick Douglas urge northern blacks to do?
enlist in the Union army
Lincoln has hesitant to support abolition early in the wart because he:
feared of loosing the support of the slaveholding border states within the Union
All of the following are examples of technological changes that helped to make the Civil War a modern war EXCEPT for the:
field telephone
"King Cotton diplomacy" led Great Britain to:
find new supplies of cotton outside the South
Lincoln's issuance of an emancipation proclamation:
followed the narrow Union victory in the Battle fo Antietam
During the Mexican War:
for the first time, the U.S. troops occupied a foreign capital.