Nathan's Study Guide

William Lloyd Garrison established a newspaper that advocated which of the following issues?

Abolition of slavery

Which of the following achievements of the "carpetbag" governments survived the "Redeemer" administrations?

Establishment of a public school system

The graph above refutes which of the following statements? (bar graph entitles "Slaveholders in 1860")

Most southern families held slaves.

Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?

National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories.

Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for the secession of South Carolina?

The election of 1860

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in

the withdrawal of federal troops from the South

The map above shows the United States immediately following the (map identifying free and slave states)

passage of the Missouri Compromise

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

Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was

possible British recognition of the Confederacy

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

preserve the Union

In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with

protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves

Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported

restrictions on Catholics' holding public office

"We do not know whether free laborers ever sleep. . . . The free laborer must work or starve. He is more of a slave than the negro, because he works longer and harder for less allowance than the slave, and has no holiday, because the cares of life with him begin when its labors end. He has no liberty, and not a single right." George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters, 1857 The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that

slaved lived better than northern factory workers

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

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 Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for

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

In the mid-nineteenth century, the process shown in the map was advocated by supporters of which of the following ideologies? (map showing territorial gains)

Manifest Destiny

The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the

Missouri Compromise

Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?

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

Sherman's march "from Atlanta to the sea" was especially notable for its

brutal use of total war tactics of destruction and pillaging against Southern civilian populations.

The map shows the United States as it appeared in (map of US with an X in the top middle)

1821

Which of the following would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

A New England abolitionist

The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to

C allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there

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.

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.

The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ?

Possession of California and most of the Southwest

"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." Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The provision above overturned the

Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford

"Still, though a slaveholder, I freely acknowledge my obligations as a man; and I am bound to treat humanely the fellow creatures whom God has entrusted to my charge. ... It is certainly in the interest of all, and I am convinced it is the desire of every one of us, to treat our slaves with proper kindness." — Letter from former South Carolina governor James Henry Hammond, 1845 "Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of Liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and denounce ... slavery 'the great sin and shame of America'!" — Frederick Douglass, speech titled "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," 1852 The language used in both excerpts most directly reflects the influence of which of the following?

The Second Great Awakening

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure....It is for us, the living...to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, July 1863 The passage above best serves as evidence of which of the following?

The changing purpose of the Civil War

"Still, though a slaveholder, I freely acknowledge my obligations as a man; and I am bound to treat humanely the fellow creatures whom God has entrusted to my charge. ... It is certainly in the interest of all, and I am convinced it is the desire of every one of us, to treat our slaves with proper kindness." — Letter from former South Carolina governor James Henry Hammond, 1845 "Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of Liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and denounce ... slavery 'the great sin and shame of America'!" — Frederick Douglass, speech titled "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," 1852 The excerpt from James Henry Hammond is most clearly an example of which of the following developments in the mid-19th century?

The growing tendency among Southern slaveholders to justify slavery as a positive good

The Union's victory at Gettysburg was significant because it

is considered the turning point of the war in favor of the Union.

Which of the following best describes the situation for Freedmen in the South in the decade following the Civil War?

The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters.

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850's?

The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law

Which of the following best describes the position on slavery of most northerners during the sectional crisis of the 1850s?

They were willing to accept slavery where it existed but opposed further expansion to the territories.

"Let Southern oppressors tremble .... I shall strenuously contend for immediate enfranchisement .... I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice." The author of the statement above was

William L. Garrison

The cartoon above is intended to express (The "Strong" Government 1869-1877)

a critique of Reconstruction

A significant result of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 was that the United States

experienced increasing tension over the issue of slavery

On the eve of the Civil War, the South enjoyed an advantage over the North in

experienced military leadership

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

gave President Lincoln an opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Union war strategy included all the following components except

guerrilla warfare

Which of the following BEST reflected the idea of manifest destiny?

he campaign platform of James Polk in 1844

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

heightened awareness of the cruelty of slavery.

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