Final Exam 12/12/17

False

All of the victims of the Ku Klux Klan were black.

True

By making the Union army an agent of emancipation and joining together the goals of Union and abolition, the Emancipation Proclamation sounded the eventual death knell of slavery.

False

Government involvement in the economy was diminished as a consequence of the Civil War.

False

The American Temperance Society, founded in 1826, directed its efforts to redeeming the habitual drunkards, not the occasional social drinker.

prohibited federal and state governments from denying any citizen the vote because of race.

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

True

As the Civil War progressed, millions of northerners who had not been abolitionists became convinced that preserving the Union as an embodiment of liberty required the destruction of slavery.

any man and any woman could have sexual relations at any time so long as the relationship was mutual and was recorded in a public record book.

At Oneida, founded in 1848 in New York State, John Humphrey Noyes did away with private property and developed the idea of "complex marriage." "Complex marriage" at Oneida meant

True

During Radical Reconstruction, following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, the vast majority of eligible African-Americans registered to vote.

True

During Reconstruction, some 2,000 African-Americans held public office, among them fourteen in the United States House of Representatives and two U.S. senators.

False

During the course of the Civil War, more men died in battle than from wounds, infections, or disease.

it did not enfranchise women.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony opposed the Fifteenth Amendment because

New Mexico.

In an effort to expand the Confederacy into western regions, Confederate units from Texas launched an 1861 invasion into

False

In lecturing the public, Sojourner Truth exclaimed, "And aren't I a woman?" to reinforce the traditional roles of women.

freedom from slavery; recognition as citizens; and, for adult men, the right to vote

In the five years following the end of the Civil War, former slaves were guaranteed the following in three amendments to the United States Constitution

Shakers

Stretching from Maine to Kentucky, this was the most successful of the religious communities in the mid-1800s.

laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves.

The Black Codes were

took effect on January 1, 1863, and offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.

The Homestead Act

True

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 as a Tennessee secret society and served, in effect, as a military arm of the Democratic Party.

abolished slavery throughout the Union.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in December 1865,

False

The victorious Republicans, the "Redeemers," claimed to have redeemed the white South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern and black control.

enlist in the United States Army

What did Frederick Douglass encourage African-Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort after 1863?

This was the bloodiest battle of the war.

Which of the following describes the Battle of Antietam?

the need for national reunion

Which of the following was the Gettysburg Address specifically designed to communicate?

support black churches and businesses

Which was not a principal task of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870)?

settlement houses in cities

Which was not among the institutional asylums built during the 1830s and 1840s?

merchants with close commercial ties to the South.

"Gentlemen of property and standing" were

True

"Scalawags" was a derogatory term used to describe southern white Republicans.

a northerner who settled in the South after the war.

A "carpetbagger" is

some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control.

Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation freed

True

According to the Shakers, God had a "dual" personality, encompassing both male and female sexes.

Freedom's Journal.

America's first black newspaper was called

the Declaration of Independence.

At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on

race.

Before the Civil War, American citizenship had been closely linked to

wished both to abolish slavery and send American blacks to Africa.

Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society

True

Disagreement over the role of women in antislavery campaigns contributed to a major split in the abolitionist movement.

saw the price of cotton fall steadily.

Following the Civil War, white and black farmers in the South

Georgia

General William T. Sherman moved his forces from Tennessee into this state, seizing the main railroad center in 1864.

Gettysburg.

George E. Pickett's crack division marched across an open field toward Union forces into withering gunfire in July 1863 at

True

In the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873), the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment had not altered traditional federalism.

True

In the decades before the Civil War, several thousand black Americans did emigrate to Liberia with the aid of the American Colonization Society.

Gettysburg Address

In what 1863 speech did Lincoln assert that the sacrifices of the Union soldiers would ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"?

True

Many Americans saw the reform impulse as an attack on their own freedom, particularly the temperance movement.

True

More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war in U.S. history.

True

Never before the American Civil War, had mass armies confronted each other on the battlefield with the deadly weapons created by the industrial revolution.

ensure a fair and viable system of labor relations between former slaves and former slaveholders.

One of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.

Sharecropping

False

Similar to the Shaker practice of celibacy, the Oneida community exercised monogamous marriages.

True

Southern defenders of slavery frequently linked slavery and marriage as natural and just forms of inequality.

common schools

The largest effort at educational institution-building before the Civil War came in the movement to establish

Elijah P. Lovejoy

This first martyr of the antislavery movement was killed by a mob in Illinois while defending his press.

True

Though women could not vote in the early nineteenth-century United States, they did circulate petitions, march in parades, and deliver public lectures on a variety of topics.

False

Under Radical Reconstruction, blacks held most of the South's top elected positions.

The Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter.

What military action started the American Civil War?

The leading southern commander, General Robert E. Lee, was a brilliant battlefield tactician and served as head of the Confederate States army throughout the entire war.

Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War?

the fashion of women wearing pants.

Among the social reforms involved in the early to mid-1800s, all of the following were part of American society except

True

Black Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites, serve on juries or in state militias, and vote.

False

By 1860, tax-supported school systems for children had been established in every state.

Sherman's Field Order 15.

The phrase "forty acres and a mule" derived from

5.5 million.

The total population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the South in 1860 was

True

The transformation of American government and society brought about by the Civil War was also called the Second American Revolution.