Unit 6 APUSH
Which of the following technological advances played an important role in opening up the Great Plains to farming?
- railroads - steel plows & other farm machinery - barbed wire
Reformers believed that the best way to save the Indians was through
-Christianity -education -assimilation
Which of the following statements accurately describes freedmen's quest for land in the South during Reconstruction?
-most freedmen were denied land ownership. -Most Republicans could not fathom redistributing land from plantation owners to former slaves. -Some southern Republican state governments did try to use taxes or land commissions to break up large landholdings but they had relatively little success.
During the early years of the Civil War, the term contraband came into use to signify which of the following?
Freedom-seeking slaves who fled from Confederate masters to Union armies
Which president most refashioned America's Indian policy?
Grant
What was Lincoln's reaction to the Wade-Davis Bill on Reconstruction policy?
He pocket-vetoed the bill by not signing it before Congress adjourned, but he initiated informal talks with members of Congress aimed at producing a compromise solution when the war ended.
-Treaty of Medicine Creek, 1854, Washington Territory between US government and Nisqualli, Puyallup, and other tribes The agreement excerpted is most similar to the
Indian Removal Act, which forced Southeastern tribes to relocate West of the Mississippi.
--Enforcement Act of 1870 The legislation excerpted above served as a direct response to the activities of the
Ku Klux Klan
--Tenure of Office Act, 1867 Whose general approach toward Reconstruction is best reflected by the excerpt above?
Radical Republican
According to the textbook, the Reconstruction era politician most responsible for creating the blueprint for economic expansion and later imperialism was
William Seward
In 1872, Congress established __________ as the first national park.
Yellowstone
Southerners avoided giving freed slaves the right to vote by
collecting poll taxes
The major cause of death for Civil War soldiers was
disease and infection.
"The largest, longest-run agricultural and environmental miscalculation in American history" refers to
farming the Great Plains.
The underlying reason Congress impeached Andrew Johnson was because
he attempted to undermine radical Reconstruction.
Perhaps the greatest problem for the Confederacy during the war was
inflation
All of the following are true of the Ghost Dance movement of the late 1880s except
it originated from African slave dances.
All the following accurately characterize the Battle of Antietam except
it was another in a string of early Union defeats in the East.
As a result of the Dawes Severalty Act, Indian tribes
lost almost two-thirds of their land over the proceeding decades.
During and after the Civil War, the Republican Congress implemented its economic vision for the United States by doing all of the following except
lowering tariffs on foreign goods.
The Civil War is said to be the first total war in modern times. A total war is
one where all the resources, including civilians, are geared for war.
In 1861, the most important Confederate war aim was
permanent independence and "to be let alone."
The Thirteenth Amendment
prohibited slavery throughout the United States.
The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
promoted Indian assimilation.
The United States encouraged Chinese immigration through such means as the Burlingame Treaty (1868) partially to
provide railroad workers and farm laborers out west.
Southern whites used which of the following methods to undermine and resist Reconstruction?
re-elected ex-Confeds campaign against blacks in office violence against blacks and republicans
The Emancipation Proclamation stated that
slaves in the seceded states would be freed.
--contract, signed by Isham G. Bailey and freedmen Cooper Hughs and Charles Roberts, 1867 The excerpt provides evidence to support the argument that, in the post-Civil War South,
social and economic patterns remained largely unchanged.
Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, announced in December 1863,
stated that a state could return to the Union when 10 percent of its voters took an oath of loyalty to the Union.
Reconstruction ended mostly because
the North lost interest in the cause.
Many African American sharecroppers became trapped in a vicious cycle of debt after the Civil War mainly because
they were unable to pay the high prices and interest rates they were charged as the price of cotton declined in the 1870s
--Louisiana black code, 1865 The state legislation excerpted above most directly CONTRADICTS the Constitutional protections outlined in the
14th amendment
Which politician's death marked the waning of radical Reconstruction?
Charles Sumner
Which of the following were Radical Republicans?
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens
Which statement is true regarding radical Reconstruction?
It involved both an attempt to reform the South and a huge increase in the power of the federal government.
The dominant northern Plains Indian tribe was the
Sioux
Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the place of emancipation in the Union's war aims in 1861 and 1862?
Some Republican leaders began to redefine the war as a struggle not only against Confederate armies, but also against the institution of slavery.
--Louisiana black code, 1865 Which political party's ideals in the mid-1860s are most closely represented by the excerpt?
Southern Democrats
Most scalawags were
Southern yeoman farmers who had been opposed to the slave-owning aristocracy.
Which of the following was not one of the border states that remained in the Union?
Tennessee
--Treaty of Medicine Creek, 1854, Washington Territory between US government and Nisqualli, Puyallup, and other tribes Which of the following was NOT a 19th-century result of the type of interactions represented by the excerpt?
The majority of Native Americans successfully resisted attempts at assimilation.
Which pair of battles marked the turning point in the Civil War?
Vicksburg and Gettysburg
The Union had all of the following advantages over the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War except
better military leadership
Southern whites responded to the end of slavery with
black codes
The Exodusters were
blacks who migrated to Kansas.
--contract, signed by Isham G. Bailey and freedmen Cooper Hughs and Charles Roberts, 1867 The excerpt is representative of a
continuity over time with regard to Southern blacks' primary occupations between the first and second halves of the nineteenth century.
The Freedmen's Bureau was
created by Congress to help ex-slaves adjust to freedom and secure their basic civil rights.
President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan did all of the following except
require the southern states to guarantee the safety and basic rights of blacks in their state constitutions.
In the 1860s and 1870s, Congress took all of the following actions to help incorporate the West into the national economy except
requiring railroad companies to extend their lines out west.
-contract, signed by Isham G. Bailey and freedmen Cooper Hughs and Charles Roberts, 1867 The excerpt above is most directly representative of
sharecropping
Upon becoming president in March 1861, Lincoln
stated that secession was illegal and that he intended to enforce federal law throughout the Union.
President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War to
stop disloyal activities such as protests against the draft.
--Tenure of Office Act, 1867 The legislation referenced in the excerpt was passed so that
the President would be required to retain members of his cabinet who were sympathetic to the Radical Republicans.
All of the following demonstrated America's newfound power in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War except
the annexation of Hawaii.
--Treaty of Medicine Creek, 1854, Washington Territory between US government and Nisqualli, Puyallup, and other tribes The excerpt provides evidence to SUPPORT the argument that
the expansion of US territorial boundaries raised questions about the status and legal rights of American Indians
