Dual credit

Lincoln's original plan for Reconstruction in 1863 was that a state could be reintegrated into the Union when

10% of its voters took an oath of allegiance to the union and pledged to abide by emancipation

Sexual relationships between white southern men and female slaves was

A common practice

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 sharecroppers

Texas was finally admitted to the Union in 1844 as a result of

A joint resolution of congress

The compromise of 1850 provide for the

Addition of a free state without adding a new slave state

The 1854 Gadsden Purchase

Advanced the cause of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad

During the Mexican war,

American settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the United States navy.

The norths advantages over the south at the outbreak of the civil war included all of the following EXCEPT

Better military leaders

The US achieved "most favored nation" status in the 1844 Treaty of Wang Hya with

China

On April 14, 1861 Fort Sumter surrendered after

Confederate forces bombarded it.

The phrase "spot resolutions" refers to

Congressman Abraham Lincoln's resolution demanding to know the exact spot of American soil where American blood had supposedly been shed.

The most important influence on the growth of the institution of slavery in the first half of the 19th century was the

Cotton gin

President Lincoln believed that the main objective of the union armies was to

Destroy confederate armies

Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when

Federal troops were removed

The purpose of the freedmans bureau was to

Feed, adjust and educate the former slaves

To realize it's independence, the confederacy has to

Fight the invading union army to a draw

As the Battle of Vicksburg was ending, another major battle was taking place in

Gettysburg

Newly freed African Americans and Thaddeus Stevens urged the federal government to

Give them 40 acres and a mule

What was the legacy of the era depicted in this nineteenth century illustration?

Grandfather clauses and pill taxes

The fourteenth amendment was part of a series of laws that

Guaranteed all citizens due process of the law

Short Staple Cotton

Helped to keep the south a predominantly agricultural region

The United States' claim to the Oregon Country rested on all of the following EXCEPT the

Hudsons Bay company

In the Emancipation proclamation, president Ambraham Lincoln declared freedom for slaves

In the parts of the confederacy still in rebellion

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

It abolished slavery in all states

Which of the following best describes the policy of the government of Mexico toward Texas?

It encouraged American settlement in Texas in the 1820's and early 1830's

Which of the following statements is true of the Kansas Nebraska act?

It led directly to the formation of the Republican Party

Why was the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson important?

It ruled that segregation was constitutional

It should be unlawful for a negro and a white person to play together or in company with eachother at any game of pool of billards. No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls. It shall be unlawful for colored people to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the benefit, use and enjoyment of white persons. What are these quotation examples of

Jim Crow laws

In the mid 1850s, the struggle over Kansas saw

John Brown murder several pro-slavery settlers.

At the conclusion of president Andrew johnsons impeachment trial,

Johnson was acquitted by a margin of one vote.

Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House after

Lee recognized the futility of continued fighting.

In the 1840s the government of Mexico

Moved from favoring to opposing American immigration into Texas

When the war ended, newly freed slaves did all of the following EXCEPT

Moved in masses to the northern states

One actual slave revolt that resulted in numerous white deaths in the nineteenth-century South was led by

Nat Turner

The copperheads were

Northern Democrats who opposed the Union war effort

Reconstruction ended in part because

Northerners lost interest

The ideology of the Free soil included

Opposition to the expansion of slavery

The Republican Party originated in the mid 1850s as a sectional party committed to which of the Following?

Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories

The most common form of resistance on the part of the African American slaves prior to the civil war was

Passive resistance, including breaking tools and slightly slowing the pace of work

In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to

Preserve the Union

During the civil war, the confederate government raised most of taxes funds by

Printing paper currency

All of the following elements of the Radical Republican program were implemented during are EXCEPT

Provision of 40 acres to each freedman

During reconstruction, the southern school system

Reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876

All of the following were parts of Andrew Johnsons plan for reconstruction EXCEPT

Requiring payment of monetary reparations for the damage caused by the war

The public finally accepted Seward's purchase of Alaska because

Russia had been the only great power friendly to the union during the civil war

To "manumit" means to

Set free

At the end of the Civil War, the vast majority of freed slaves found work as

Sharecroppers

The "peculiar institution" was a southern reference to

Slavery

The crittenden compromise found its greatest support in

Southern senators.

During reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to

Southern white republicans

The main goal of the klu klux klans terror was to

Terrorize blacks to keep them from voting

Why did congressional Reconstruction end in 1877

The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election

Which of the following was NOT used by Southerners in defense of the institution of slavery

The constitution protected slavery in the south, and abolished it only north of the Ohio river and the Mason Dixon line

Which of the following defines the principle of "popular sovereignty"

The settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there

The legacy of Reconstruction included all of the following EXCEPT

The solid South and the rise of the redeemers or Bourbons

All of the following contributed to the causes of the Mexican war EXCEPT

The spot resolutions

Which of the following provisions of the compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850s

The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law

Which of the following is a restriction that the Mexican government put on the settlers of the Texas Territory in 1821 and 1823

They had to follow the Roman Catholic religion

In 1836, the battle of San Jancito

To independence for Texas

Which of these terms BEST describes General William T Sherman's burning of Atlanta and his "march to the sea"?

Total war

The question of the boundary of the Oregon territory and the heated debate over the "fifty four forty or fight" was finally settled by

Treaty

The 1857 lecompton constitution was

Twice rejected by a majority of the Kansas voters

The name given to the effort by whites and blacks to help runaway slaves escape was the

Underground Railroad

The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ending the Mexican War included

United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico

Which of the following is true of American slave families in the antebellum south?

Up to one-third of families were broken apart by the sale of family members.

The major battle in the western theater during the civil war which had the effect of splitting the confederacy in half was

Vicksburg

The fifteenth amendment provided for

Voting rights for former slaves

To support the claim that the Fifteenth Amendment failed to fulfill its promise for nearly a century, a historian would most likely cite which of the following as evidence?

Voting rights were still denied

In the 1840s critics of territorial expansion by the United stated

Warned it would increase the controversy over slavery

The assasination of Abraham Lincoln

Was a clamity for the south

The 1856 beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the Untied States Senate

Was a vicious assault carried by a member of the House of Representatives

During the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates, it became clear that Lincoln

Was opposed to the extension of slavery to the territories

The state admitted to the union during the civil war was

West Virginia

The so-called border states at the time of the outbreak of the Civil War were those states

Which might but did not join the confederacy

During reconstruction, most "carpetbaggers" were

White northerners who moved to the south

General Grant's Union forces attacked General Lee's Confederate forces in the month-long

Wilderness Campaign

The key to victory for the untied states in the Mexican war was

Winfield Scotts seizure of Mexico City

The "aroostook war" involved

a battle between American and Canadian lumberjacks over the northern Maine boundary

In 1845 the immediate cause of war with Mexico was

a dispute over territory.

In the confederacy, a military draft

aroused opposition from poorer whites for its expensive substitute policy.

General Ulysses S. Grant's basic strategy in the Civil War involved

assailing the enemy's armies simultaneously

The British-American dispute over the border of Maine was solved

by a compromise that gave each side some territory

Which of these strategic objectives did the North accomplish last during the civil war?

capturing the Confederate capital of Richmond

In 1861 the so called Trent affair

created an international diplomatic crisis for Abraham Lincoln.

The confiscation act of 1861

declared that slaves used by Confederate states in the war effort were free.

The 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act was designed to help

education

In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant

entered the White House with no political experience.

In the American slave family,

extended kinship networks were strong and important.

In the election of 1864, president Abraham Lincoln

faced a Democratic opponent who was a former Union general.

During the civil war, "greenbacks" issued by the federal government

fluctuated in value depending on the fortunes of the Northern armies.

Prior to 1860, southern white women

generally lived lives that were isolated from the wider world.

In part, President Lincoln refrained from taking action to emancipate slaves until the Civil War had been in progress for almost two years because

he sought to retain the loyalty of the border States

Taxes enacted by the United States Congress to help finance the Civil War

included a new income tax.

The passage of the fugitive slave act

intensified the debate over slavery.

In coining the phrase "Manifest Destiny," journalist John L. O'Sullivan meant that

it was the destiny of America to overspread the continent

All of the following led Congress to impose Radical Reconstruction measures EXCEPT the

massive exodus of former slaves from the South

One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation

might give more power to the supporters of slavery

Southern, white, lower-class resentment of the aristocratic system was most likely to be found in

mountain regions

The congressional "gag rule" stipulated that

no antislavery petitions would be formally received by Congress

Most white southerners owned

no slaves

As president, Andrew Johnson

offered amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.

Regarding religion, American slaves

often incorporated African features into their Christianity.

The primary goal of Commodore Matthew Perrys Treaty with Japan in 1854 was

opening Japan to American trade

During the civil war as a result of new technology in weapons,

organized infantry did not fight in formation.

In the 1850s, in an effort to undercut the Fugitive slave act, some northern states

passed laws preventing the deportation of fugitive slaves.

Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor of pre-Civil War southern whites was their

perception of white racial superiority.

The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to

place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people

Before the early 1850s, Americans who traveled west on the overland trails were generally

relatively young people who traveled in family groups.

The battle of Gettysburg

represented the last time Confederate forces seriously threatened Union territory.

The unions national draft law

resulted in murderous attacks in New York City against free blacks.

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court

ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories because slaves were private property.

All of the following were ways African American males were deprived of the right to vote in the south EXCEPT

segregation

Prior to 1860, the center of economic power in the South

shifted from the upper South to the lower South.

In a final letter before he was hanged, John brown stated that "the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood". What crime was john brown mainly referring to?

slavery

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to

strengthen the moral cause of the Union

The reconstruction Acts of 1867 provided for

temporary Union military supervision of the ex-Confederacy

In 1860 and 1861, president James Buchanan asserted

that the federal government had no authority to stop a state from seceding from the Union.

The wilmot proviso specifically provided for

the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War

What was the intent of the union war strategy known as the Anaconda plan?

to surround the Confederacy and squeeze it to death

In the California gold rush

upwards of ninety-five percent of the "Forty-niners" were men.

In 1861, the first battle of manassas

was a victory for the Confederates.

Politically, the Confederate constitution

was almost identical in many respects to the Constitution of the United States.

The peninsular campaign in 1862

was an example of General McClellan's conservative approach to battle.

The tenure of office act

was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority.

When president Andrew Johnson removed secretary of war Edwin M. Stanton without the approval of the senate, contrary to the terms of the recently passed Tenure of Office Act, he

was impeached and came within one vote of being removed from office

The 1854 Ostend manifesto

was part of an attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba.

The panic of 1873

was the nation's worst economic depression to that time.

A key issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates was

whether the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision.

Lincoln won the presidency

with an electoral majority derived only from the North