Unit 4 Exam
In 1850, a majority of southern slaveholders owned how many slaves?
1 to 5.
The U.S. slave population by 1860 was approximately:
4 million
The thirteen amendment:
Abolished slavery throughout the United States.
Who questioned whether the mexicans had actually inflicted casualities on american soil, as president polk claimed?
Abraham Lincoln.
During the early days days of the water, 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.
"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of:
Oregon
Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of:
Oregon
To qualify as a member of the planter class, a person had to be engaged in southern agriculture and:
Own atleast 20 slaves
"Greenback" was a Civil War-era nickname for:
Paper money
Lincoln spoke of "a new birth of freedom" for the nation on in his:
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
The Democratic Party split in 1860 over the question of whether to:
Protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty in them.
In 1860, which state became the first to pass an ordinance of secession and declare itself separated from the Union?
South Carolina
In 1860, which state became the first to pass an ordinance of secession and declare itself seperated from the Union?
South Carolina
What economic effect did southern slavery have on the North?
Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North.
During the Mexican War:
American forces occupied a foregin captial.
During the Civil War, northern white women:
Being obtaining jobs as government clerks.
The relationship between rich southern planters and poor southern farmers:
Benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders.
During the Civil War, the term "contraband camps" referred to:
Camps of southern slaves who had escaped from their masters and entered union lines.
The American Civil War began in April 1861, when:
Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter.
The american Civil war began in April 1861, when:
Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter.
General Sherman marched from Atlanta to the sea in order to:
Demoralize the South's civilian population.
Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he:
Did not want to support the policies of the Radical republicans.
As a general rule, slaveowners never allowed their slaves to listen to a white preacher in church.
False
John C. Calhoun's key contribution to the proslavery argument was the claim that slavery was a necessary evil.
False.
Southern farmers in the backcountry:
Generally worked the land using family labor.
During the Civil War, black soliders:
Helped inspire republicans to believe that emancipation also demanded equal rights before the law.
Who wrote on civil disobedience as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?
Henry david Thoreau
Who wrote On Civil Disobedience as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?
Henry david Thoreu
What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party
Its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
In the presidental election of 1860, the two candiates who recieved the most votes in the southerm states were:
John Breckinridge and John Bell
In the presidential election of 1860, the two candidates who received the most votes in the southern states were:
John Breckinridge and John Bell.
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?
John Brown
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virgnia, in 1859?
John Brown
Why did salvery become more central to American politics in the 1840's?
Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or salve.
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.
Who said that the language in the Declaration of Independence—that all men were created equal and entitled to liberty—was "the most false and dangerous of all political errors"?
John C. Calhoun.
Lincoln's insurance of the emancipation proclamation
Led to a strong republican showing the congressional and the state elections of 1862.
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election without a single vote in ten southern states.
True
Although the importation of slaves from Africa was prohibited beginning in 1808, the sale and trade of slaves within the United States flourished in later years.
True
In the early days of the war, union military commanders returned fugitives slaves to their owners.
True
Is it ironic that the south supported the Fugitive Slave Act because that law gave enormous power to the federal government to override local authorities, which is something that the South had traditionally opposed.
True
It is ironic that the South supported the Fugitive Slave Act because that law gave enormous power to the federal government to override local authorities, which is something that the South had traditionally opposed.
True
The famous lincoln douglas debates took place during the campaign for:
U.S. senator from Illinois in 1858.
A major part of anaconda plan was:
a naval blockade of the South.
John C. Calhoun and George Fitzhugh:
agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good.
What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?
its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
Urban slaves:
most often were domestic servants.
Copperheads were:
northern opponents of the war.
On matters related to citizenship, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that:
only white persons could be U.S. citizens.
In 1846, congressmen David Wilmot proposed to:
prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico
The democratic party spilt in 1860 over the question of wether to:
protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty in them.
In the south, the paternalist ethos:
reflected the hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him
The California gold rush:
resulted in laws that discriminated against "foreign miners."
In his last speech, lincoln said what regarding postwar policy?
There should be atleast limited black suffrage.
Task labor:
allowed slaves to take on daily jobs, set their own pace, and work on their own when they were done.
Stephen Douglas' motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebreska Act was to:
boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
Stephen Douglas's motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:
boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
By the late 1830s, the South's proslavery argument:
claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress.
The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court:
declared Congress could not ban slavery from territories
The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court:
declared Congress could not ban slavery from territories.
Gender roles under slavery:
differed from those of white society because men and women alike suffered a sense of powerlessness.
"King Cotton diplomacy" led Great Britain to:
find new supplies of cotton outside the South.
The fugitive Slave act of 1850
gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement.
Frederick Douglass argued that:
slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans.
Defenders of American slavery claimed that British emancipation in the 1830s had been a failure because:
the freed slaves grew less sugarcane, which hurt the economy of the Caribbean.
At anitetam:
the nation suffered more casualties than on any other day in its history.
Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding texas to the united states because:
the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it.
The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves. What was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had?
the threat of sale
Harriet Tubman:
was a fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery.