Unit 5/6 PreAPUSH
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
Andrew Johnson
17th President of the United States, A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president.
Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?
A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers
According to John O'Sullivan, the "manifest destiny" of the United States to occupy North America could be traced to: *
A divine mission
Stephen Douglas
A moderate, who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and popularized the idea of popular sovereignty.
Henry Clay
A northern American politician. He developed the American System as well as negotiated numerous compromises.
What was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850? *
The New Mexico and Utah Territories would use popular sovereignty to decide about slavery
John Brown
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
Fredrick Douglass
American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published the autobiography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.
Stephen Douglas's motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to: *
Boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad
Robert E. Lee
Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force
"Radical Reconstruction" refers to:
Congress' revised plan for Reconstruction when federal troops were placed in the South to enforce its policies
On the eve of the Civil War, the South enjoyed an advantage over the North in
Experienced Military Leadership
The Dred Scott decision of the US Supreme Court: *
Declared that Congress could not ban slavery from US territories.
Which of the following statements about African American soldiers during the Civil War is correct?
For most of the war, they were paid less than White soldiers of equal rank.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: *
Gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement
The majority of the nearly 4 million immigrants that entered the US between 1840 and 1860 were from: *
Germany and Ireland
During the Nullification Crisis, President Jackson took the position of: *
Going against fellow Southerners in South Carolina by asserting the Constitutional authority of the federal government over the states.
Which of the following statements best summarizes the views of Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction?
He believed that Reconstruction was an executive branch matter and sought the rapid restoration of the former Confederate states to the Union.
When comparing colonial slavery to 19th Century slavery, what was a major difference? *
In the colonial period, slaves rarely worked in cotton fields
The trend shown in the map led most directly to which of the following?
Increasing divisions between North and South because of questions about the status of slavery in new territories
In the mid-nineteenth century, the process shown in the map was advocated by supporters of which of the following ideologies?
Manifest Destiny
Which statement about Nat Turner's Rebellion is true? *
Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
Missouri Compromise
The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the Northwest? *
New York
Who had tensions with the Radical Republicans during reconstruction
President Andrew Johnson
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to: *
Prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico
Which problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin? *
Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task, but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, southern state governments used all of the following methods to restrict African American freedoms EXCEPT:
Restrictive Housing Covenants
As President, Andrew Jackson instituted a "spoils system" which: *
Rewarded his political supporters with government jobs in his administration, replacing experienced government workers.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." This excerpt is from:
The 14th Amendment
Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?
The election of 1860
Which of the following was NOT a benefit of the Industrial Revolution?
Wages generally increased for labor as small, self-employed trades were replaced by large factories.
Which of the following best describes the situation of freedom in the decade following the Civil War? *
The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters.
"You will, no doubt, be hard on us rioters tomorrow morning—but that 300-dollar law has made us nobodies, vagabonds and cast-outs of society, for whom nobody cares when we must go to war and be shot down." The "300-dollar law" statement refers to is:
The rule that allowed wealthy Americans in the North to pay $300 instead of being drafted to fight.
Andrew Jackson
The seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), who as a general in the War of 1812 defeated the British at New Orleans (1815). As president he opposed the Bank of America, objected to the right of individual states to nullify disagreeable federal laws, and increased the presidential powers.
Harriet Breecher Stowe
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank *
concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people
Most young women who worked in the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills during the 1830s experienced all of the following EXCEPT *
continued employment after marriage
Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because *
expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections
Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was
possible British recognition of the Confederacy
When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to
strengthen the moral cause of the Union
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established
that suffrage cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT
the abolition of slavery throughout the United States
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
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA in 1859? *
John Brown
A significant result of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 was that the United States *
experienced increasing tension over the issue of slavery
William Loyd Garrison
important abolitionist leader who founded abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator; cofounded the New England Antislavery Society
In the first half of the nineteenth century, a major consequence of United States expansionism was
increased sectional discord, accompanied by the growing failure of compromise
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
The Compromise of 1877 resulted in
the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
