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Q:
What was the spark for a deadly riot in New York in 1863?
a. food shortages
b. a military draft
c. peace negotiations with the South
d. Irish immigrants being asked not to serve
e. opposition to the Thirteenth Amendment
Q:
Which of the following is true of Jefferson Davis and his governing?
a. Although Davis had a poor prewar reputation as an orator, his speechmaking rose to new heights as the Confederacys president.
b. His administration actually suffered from the Confederacys lack of political parties.
c. He had Lincolns common touch, but the lack of newspapers in the South reduced his ability to communicate it.
d. He strongly opposed centralizing authority in the Confederacys Richmond government.
e. On more than one occasion, Davis, a West Point alumnus, led Confederate troops into battle.
Q:
Captains of industry like steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and oil man John D. Rockefeller
a. began creating or consolidating their fortunes during the Civil War.
b. benefited after the war from the respect their military service earned for them.
c. became important advisers to President Lincoln.
d. voluntarily provided important resources to the war effort.
e. made millions bilking southerners who were buying war bonds.
Q:
What was a result of the expanding Union economy?
a. The government borrowed great amounts of money from overseas.
b. The protective tariff decreased, bringing with it free trade.
c. The size and spending of the government increased tremendously.
d. The Union could buy the freedom of many slaves in the Confederacy.
e. Factory jobs decreased as professional jobs increased.
Q:
During the Civil War, northern white women
a. staged bread riots in major cities to protest food shortages.
b. began obtaining jobs as government clerks.
c. were recruited to sell war bonds door-to-door.
d. were allowed to accompany their husbands into battle if they did not have children.
e. demonstrated outside the White House in favor of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Q:
During the Civil War, northern women
a. campaigned more vigorously for womens suffrage than ever before.
b. found new permanent places in the fields of nursing, government, and retail sales.
c. were replaced by men in the field of nursing.
d. were not allowed to work in factories.
e. were granted the right to vote by Congress.
Q:
How does Thomas Drayton depict the Confederate cause in his letter of April 1861?
a. as the enactment of Gods plan for America
b. as a step toward the creation of two separate but equal nations in America
c. as a battle for the liberty of white Southerners
d. as a defensive war against Northern aggression
e. as a defense of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Q:
Which aspect of the Civil War does Thomas Draytons letter of April 1861 illustrate?
a. Both the North and the South believed that God was on their side.
b. The Civil War split families, with brother sometimes fighting against brother.
c. Slaves felt that the war was being fought for their freedom from the start.
d. The Confederacy held the advantage of fighting a defensive war.
e. The leadership of Robert E. Lee was an essential strength for the Confederacy.
Q:
Analyze Roger Taneys decision in the Dred Scott case. How did the ruling mirror the sectional debates that had been occurring in Congress? What consequences did the decision have on the liberties and freedoms of blacks in America?
Q:
Examine the aftermath of the Mexican War for Tejanos in the Texas borderland. What were the consequences for Mexicans, Indians, slaves, and free blacks in the newly acquired areas of not only Texas but also New Mexico and California? Think back to Thomas Jeffersons idea of an Empire of Liberty. Did the newly acquired land from the Mexican War promote Jeffersons idea, or as with the Louisiana Purchase, was it an empire of liberty for only a few?
Q:
How do you explain why and when certain slave states seceded from the Union? Why did some slave statesDelaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missourinot secede from the Union?
Q:
The Civil War proved to be disastrous for which noncombatants?
a. slaves in Maryland
b. slaves in South Carolina
c. Iroquois
d. Navajos
e. pacifist abolitionists
Q:
Which is true of Union and Confederate leadership during the Civil War?
a. Lincoln suffered from a reputation for being indecisive throughout the war.
b. Daviss main strength was as a military commander.
c. Lincoln applied lessons learned during his brief period as a slaveholder to his policies concerning black soldiers.
d. Lincoln displayed an ability to put practical concerns above ideals.
e. Davis had an uncanny ability to connect with his citizens.
Q:
What happened to Cherokee slaveholders after the Civil War?
a. They were slaughtered.
b. They were forced to leave the United States.
c. They were forced to give former slaves some of their land.
d. They were forced to march to Oklahoma.
e. They had land given to them by the federal government.
Q:
Which statement is true about the Civil War and Indians in the West?
a. The Civil War had little impact on Indians in the West.
b. The Union treated Indian tribes more leniently than the Confederacy did.
c. During the war, the Union army forced 8,000 Navajo to move to a reservation.
d. Conflicts between white settlers and Indians in the West were suspended during the Civil War.
e. The Union suspended all military actions against Indian tribes during the Civil War.
Q:
How can the treatment of Native Americans by the Confederacy be characterized?
a. They were given access to millions of acres of land.
b. They were ignored by Jefferson Davis.
c. They received scorn from the Confederacy due to some Native Americans siding with the Union.
d. They were given a say in the Confederate government.
e. The Confederates appreciated Native Americans serving as peacemakers, bringing an end to the Civil War.
Q:
Greenback was a Civil Warera nickname for
a. sailors.
b. draft dodgers.
c. members of the Irish Brigade.
d. paper money.
e. any Confederate soldier.
Q:
Wartime economic policies
a. decreased the power and size of the federal government.
b. benefited laborers at the expense of employers.
c. benefited the agricultural sector at the expense of industry.
d. hurt entrepreneurs such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller.
e. benefited northern manufacturers, railroad men, and financiers.
Q:
What did Emerson mean by Mexico will poison us? Was he right? Why or why not?
Q:
Many Americans and immigrants from other lands believed California presented a magnificent opportunity for economic freedom once gold was discovered. However, the boundaries of freedom were tightly drawn in California. Explain the expansions and limitations of freedom there.
Q:
Analyze the arguments of the Free Soil Party. How did its members understand freedom? How did slavery fit into their platform?
Q:
Thinking back to previous chapters, fully explain how the forces of the market revolution heightened the tension between freedom and slavery.
Q:
Explain how the various parties reacted to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Be sure to discuss why the Whig Party failed, why the Democratic Party split, and why the Republican Party started. How did each party view slavery and define freedom?
Q:
Using the Lincoln-Douglas debates, explore how each man viewed freedom. What can their political debates tell us about American society on the eve of the Civil War?
Q:
Moderate Republicans like Abraham Lincoln supported the Dred Scott decision.
Q:
The Lincoln-Douglas debates, although considered significant in American political history, were sparsely attended.
Q:
John Brown perpetuated violence over the slavery issue in only Virginia.
Q:
The Ostend Manifesto suggested seizing all of Mexico, rather than just the Mexican Cession, during the Mexican War.
Q:
Abraham Lincolns discussion of slavery as a dying institution was the catalyst for the first seven states seceding from the Union.
Q:
The slave states of the Upper South reacted more favorably to Lincolns election than did the slave states of the Lower South.
Q:
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election without a single vote in ten southern states.
Q:
By the time Lincoln actually took the oath of office, seven states had already seceded from the Union.
Q:
Did morality or economics dominate the debates over slavery in the 1850s? Explain the various arguments made for and against the expansion of slavery. Who, if anyone, was arguing for abolition?
Q:
John OSullivan declared that race was the key to the history of nations and the rise and fall of empires. How accurate do you think that statement was? Why?
Q:
Kansas was admitted to the United States as a slave state in 1858.
Q:
The free labor ideology assumed that free labor could not compete with slave labor and so slaverys expansion had to be halted to ensure freedom for the white laborer.
Q:
Prior to becoming president in 1857, James Buchanan did not have much political experience.
Q:
Abraham Lincolns early views on race and slavery were focused on increasing economic opportunities for free blacks.
Q:
The explosive population growth and competition for gold brought cooperation among Californias many racial and ethnic groups as they worked together for wealth.
Q:
As it divided over the issue of slavery, the Catholic Church broke into northern and southern branches.
Q:
The Californios controlled the labor of Indian tribes.
Q:
The revolutions of 1848 in Europe are indicative of a lasting democratic shift in western European societies.
Q:
The Wilmot Proviso never passed as a law.
Q:
Unlike most previous presidents, James Polk was not a slaveholder.
Q:
The Free Soil idea in the West appealed to racist northerners who worried about competing against black laborers.
Q:
The issue of Texas annexation was hotly linked to slavery and affected the nominations of presidential candidates in the 1840s.
Q:
The Fugitive Slave Act provided for the return of runaway slaves to their owners.
Q:
The Appeal of the Independent Democrats was not a very effective piece of political persuasion.
Q:
Landowners of Spanish heritage in California were forced to accept a new national identity after the Mexican-American War.
Q:
The development of railroads and the economic integration of the Northeast and Northwest created the groundwork for the political unification of the Republican Party.
Q:
Nativism emerged as a major political movement in 1854 with the sudden appearance of the Liberty Party.
Q:
The Mexican War was the first American conflict to be fought primarily on foreign soil.
Q:
After Texas independence, the Tejanos lost rights and access to land.
Q:
Which was a result of the 1861 attack on Fort Sumter?
a. Davis gained control of the most essential fort in the South.
b. Support for the Confederacy collapsed in South Carolina.
c. The Union army lost more than 3,000 soldiers.
d. Lincoln succeeded in making the South fire the first shot.
e. Virginia and North Carolina defected from the Confederacy.
Q:
American settlement of Oregon began well before the United States and Great Britain divided the territory at the forty-ninth parallel.
Q:
In 1860, which state became the first to pass an ordinance of secession and declare itself separated from the Union?
a. Virginia
b. Kentucky
c. Georgia
d. South Carolina
e. Tennessee
Q:
Actions taken by the Mexican government were significant factors in the creation of the Texas independence movement.
Q:
What do the authors of South Carolinas Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession present as the cause of their leaving the Union?
a. the federal governments refusal to respect states rights
b. the election of a president who received no votes from the southern states
c. the federal governments refusal to endorse the Ostend Manifesto
d. the Norths increasing opposition to slavery
e. the Supreme Courts hostility to the interests of slave owners
Q:
During the secession winter of 18601861, who offered the most widely supported compromise plan in Congress, which allowed the westward extension of the Missouri Compromise line?
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. John Crittenden
c. Jefferson Davis
d. Zachary Taylor
e. Andrew Johnson
Q:
Which statement is true about the Confederacy?
a. The cornerstone of the Confederacy was the racist belief that whites were racially superior and blacks natural condition was to be enslaved.
b. The majority of whites in the Confederate states were slaveholders in 1860.
c. The majority of whites in the Confederate states believed in free labor ideology.
d. All whites in the Confederate states had supported secession.
e. Most poor whites in Confederate states believed they would achieve economic independence if slavery were abolished.
Q:
Who is identified as an enemy in Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession?
a. the federal government
b. abolitionists
c. northern politicians
d. Abraham Lincoln
e. slaves participating in rebellions
Q:
Which statement is true about the Confederacy?
a. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America was drafted to be different in all ways from the U.S. Constitution.
b. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly guaranteed slave property in the states and in any newly acquired territories.
c. Confederate leaders planned to return lands to Indian tribes within the Confederate states that had been seized by the United States.
d. Confederate leaders opposed imperial expansion into Central America and the Caribbean.
e. Stephen Douglas became president of the Confederacy.
Q:
How did the Confederate Constitution differ from the federal Constitution?
a. It contained only two branches of government, the executive and the judicial.
b. It limited citizenship to those meeting property requirements.
c. It explicitly guaranteed the right to own slaves.
d. It did not allow for a presidential cabinet.
e. It did not include the office of vice president.
Q:
The American Civil War began in April 1861, when
a. Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter.
b. U.S. naval vessels bombarded the city of Wilmington, North Carolina.
c. Confederate and Union cavalry clashed in disputed territory in Texas.
d. General William Sherman led Union soldiers on a devastating march through Georgia.
e. Confederate infantry attacked Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Q:
What key component of the 1860 Republican platform had never before been part of a major partys platform?
a. There should be no national banking system.
b. Slavery should be abolished in the Upper South.
c. The government needed to protect industry with a tariff.
d. Federal money should be used to improve and extend transportation.
e. Slavery should not be extended into new states and territories.
Q:
___ 1. Dred Scott
___ 2. Abraham Lincoln
___ 3. John Fr mont
___ 4. Martin Van Buren
___ 5. John Brown
___ 6. William Walker
___ 7. Henry David Thoreau
___ 8. John Breckinridge
___ 9. Stephen Douglas
___ 10. Henry Clay
___ 11. Preston Brooks
___ 12. David Wilmot
a. On Civil Disobedience
b. 1848 Free Soil presidential candidate
c. author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
d. tried to attach bill to ban slavery to war declaration
e. author of the Compromise of 1850
f. caned Charles Sumner
g. a slave who sued for his freedom
h. led a raid on Harpers Ferry
i. 1860 Republican presidential candidate
j. 1860 southern Democratic presidential candidate
k. 1856 Republican presidential candidate
l. filibustering
Q:
In the 1860 election, who was the presidential candidate to have significant support in all parts of the country?
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. John Breckinridge
c. John Bell
d. Stephen Douglas
e. Will Seward
Q:
Why did the southern states secede from the Union and form the Confederacy?
a. They wanted to preserve slavery.
b. The Fugitive Slave Act violated popular sovereignty.
c. They wanted to protest the Dred Scott decision.
d. They supported Stephen Douglas in the 1860 election.
e. The majority of southern whites were slaveholders.
Q:
___ 1. manifest destiny ___ 2. Wilmot Proviso ___ 3. Kansas-Nebraska Act ___ 4. Fugitive Slave Act ___ 5. Ostend Manifesto ___ 6. Free Soil Party ___ 7. Compromise of 1850 ___ 8. Know-Nothing Party ___ 9. Tejanos ___ 10. Appeal of the Independent Democrats ___ 11. filibustering ___ 12. gold rush a. issued by antislavery congressmen b. suggested that the United States buy or seize Cuba c. returned runaway slaves to their masters d. Americas mission to settle the West e. Texas settlers of Spanish or Mexican descent f. sudden increase in Californias population g. voided the Missouri Compromise h. no slavery in land acquired by Mexico i. expedition to Central America j. opponents to the expansion of slavery k. anti-immigrant political party l. Californias entry into the Union as a free state
Q:
How did John Brown differ from other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison?
a. He opposed slavery on a purely secular (nonreligious) basis.
b. He was married to an ex-slave.
c. He was willing to take violent action to end slavery.
d. He deliberately modeled his speech and behavior on Jesus Christ.
e. He was the son of a prominent southern planter.
Q:
In the 1850s, Tennessee-born William Walker became famous for
a. creating a utopian community in Northern California.
b. his proslavery novels that heightened sectionalism.
c. breeding the Tennessee Walker, a horse prominent in westward expansion.
d. seeking to establish himself as ruler of a slaveholding Nicaragua.
e. defying fellow whites in his native region and becoming a prominent abolitionist.
Q:
During his debate with Abraham Lincoln in Freeport, Illinois, Stephen Douglas
a. called for the free-soil principle to determine the status of slavery in the West.
b. denounced popular sovereignty as a fraud.
c. praised the temperance movement and other key social reforms.
d. insisted that popular sovereignty was compatible with the Dred Scott decision.
e. argued that slaveholders had a constitutional right to take their slaves anywhere.
Q:
The Democratic Party split in 1860 over the question of whether to
a. renominate President James Buchanan for a second term.
b. protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty in them.
c. impeach Chief Justice Roger Taney for the Dred Scott decision.
d. endorse the acquisition of Cuba by the United States, thus increasing slave territory.
e. immediately bring Kansas and Nebraska into the Union as slave states.
Q:
What economic trend occurred in the South in the 1850s?
a. Many poor whites lost their land and were forced to serve as tenant farmers alongside slaves.
b. The high price of slaves and the deep debt incurred by many planters undermined the profitability of plantations.
c. Owners of northern textile factories became increasingly indebted to the planters they bought their cotton from.
d. More people became slave owners, while the average number of slaves owned by a single master decreased.
e. Manufacturing became a significant source of employment for free blacks.
Q:
Which statement is true regarding the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858?
a. Lincoln disagreed with Douglass view that whites were a superior race.
b. Douglas argued that there should be a national popular vote on the morality of slavery.
c. Lincoln believed that blacks as well as whites were entitled to the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.
d. Lincoln argued for free western territories mainly so that free black people could find new homes and better conditions of life.
e. Lincoln argued that the Constitution would have to be amended to restrict slavery from the territories.
Q:
Which states did the Constitutional Unionist candidate John Bell win in the 1860 election?
a. all of the New England states
b. four states of the Lower South
c. Texas and Louisiana
d. three states of the Upper South
e. only Missouri
Q:
Which 1854 document called for the United States to seize Cuba?
a. the Monroe Doctrine
b. the Ostend Manifesto
c. the Wilmot Proviso
d. the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
e. the Fr mont Manifesto
Q:
The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during the campaign for
a. U.S. president in 1856.
b. U.S. president in 1860.
c. governor of Illinois in 1858.
d. a congressional seat from Illinois in 1856.
e. U.S. senator from Illinois in 1858.
Q:
What do the authors of the 1850 Letter to the Middletown Sentinel and Witness claim to be more important than the Union?
a. the political rights of states
b. economic freedom and prosperity
c. individuals freedom to act according to their consciences
d. Gods will
e. local rights and local cultural values
Q:
Who led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?
a. Frederick Douglass
b. Joseph Lane
c. Robert E. Lee
d. Henry Ward Beecher
e. John Brown