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Q:
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in
A) the border states of the Union.
B) all portions of the United States.
C) parts of the South already in northern hands.
D) unconquered parts of the Confederacy.
Q:
Political dissension in the South during the Civil War
A) led detractors to offer programs in opposition to Democratic policies.
B) tended to be factional, petty, and often personal in nature.
C) produced an arbitrary and tyrannical expansion of presidential power.
D) resulted in the establishment of party mechanisms to channel or curb criticism.
Q:
The New York City draft riots of 1863
A) exposed the racial and class antagonisms of northern society.
B) led to the passage of more fair conscription laws.
C) resulted from extreme northern antiwar sentiment.
D) caused little damage and produced only minor disturbances.
Q:
The largest civil disturbance of the nineteenth century occurred in New York City in early July 1863, as
A) workers opposed to the draft rioted for three days.
B) peace activists demanded a negotiated end to the war.
C) blacks protested racial discrimination and segregation.
D) nativist mobs beat up Irish immigrants and destroyed their homes and businesses.
Q:
In contrast to the North, the South relied more heavily on the
A) use of conscription to maintain their armed forces.
B) issue of government bonds to borrow money.
C) imposition of government measures to control inflation.
D) levy of direct taxes for war finances.
Q:
Southerners thought that European nations would recognize and support the Confederacy because of the Europeans'
A) lack of economic ties with the North.
B) wish to back the winning side.
C) dependence upon southern cotton.
D) desire to upset the balance of power.
Q:
During the early years of the Civil War, the northern navy concentrated on
A) raiding southern merchant ships.
B) developing new weapons and ironclad vessels.
C) gaining footholds along the southern coast for a blockade.
D) freeing the slaves in southern ports.
Q:
The casualties from the battle at Shiloh Church were enormous because of the
A) foolish use of headlong infantry attacks.
B) insufficient care of wounds on the battlefield.
C) development of more lethal weapons and ammunition.
D) surprise nature of the southern attack.
Q:
In the early western theater of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant
A) surprised a large Confederate force at Shiloh Church.
B) displayed a military genius for setting large goals.
C) closely coordinated plans with eastern military activities.
D) prematurely invaded forts in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Q:
Placed in command of the Union armies in 1861, General George McClellan
A) wished to win the war "by maneuvering rather than fighting."
B) captured the city of Richmond during his Peninsula campaign.
C) inflicted unnecessary and embittering loss of life and property.
D) gained a reputation for bold, almost reckless tactics.
Q:
The Battle of Bull Run was a prophetic one in that it showed the
A) superior ability of Union generals.
B) poor discipline of Confederate troops.
C) possibility that victory would be neither quick nor easy.
D) certainty of their prospects for quick victory.
Q:
During the early years of the war in the East
A) General Winfield Scott pushed for action and quick victory.
B) the South followed an exclusively defensive strategy.
C) a stalemate developed as decisive victory eluded both sides.
D) the North inflicted a devastating blow at the Battle of Bull Run.
Q:
Ex-slave ________ gave passionate public lectures in the northern states and Midwest against slavery.
Q:
The ________-________ party opposed immigration, particularly of Catholics, and especially the Irish.
Q:
On April 10, 1861, General ________ of the Confederacy demanded the surrender of Ft. Sumter.
Q:
The Confederate States of America elected ________ from Mississippi as president.
Q:
In 1860, southern delegates met in ________, ________ and created the Confederate States of America.
Q:
When President Lincoln met ________ in 1863, he is reported to have said, "So you"re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."
Q:
The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 was the ________, appeasing southerners but infuriating northerners.
Q:
A faction of Democrats in New York bolted the party in 1848 and joined with "conscience" Whigs to form the Free-Soil Party and support ________ for president.
Q:
Discuss the events from November 1860 to April 1861 that sparked the Civil War.
Q:
Contrast the views of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as expressed in the Illinois debates of 1858 concerning slavery, abolitionism, and racial equality. Discuss the political impact of these debates.
Q:
It is 1859. As a northerner or southerner, write an article for your local newspaper, expressing your views of the proper values and vision for the nation, and point out why the views of the other section are improper and dangerous.
Q:
How and why did the events of 1855-1856 concerning Kansas offer a preview of the Civil War?
Q:
Analyze the reasons for and the results of transformations in American political parties during the 1850s.
Q:
Discuss the events of the 1850s that fed northern suspicions of a conspiracy to extend the power and influence of the South in government.
Q:
Although the slavery issue had been largely ignored in the election of 1848, several problems forced political debate and a compromise in 1850. Discuss the provisions, process, and consequences of the compromise.
Q:
The prospect of territorial acquisition from the Mexican War spurred a political debate over the issue of extending slavery. Discuss the various solutions offered, as well as the impact of the issue on the election of 1848.
Q:
Analyze the major developments between 1848 and 1861 that contributed to the Civil War.
Q:
The Free Soilers captured roughly 40 percent of the popular vote in 1848.
Q:
Over 80,000 gold miners arrived in California in 1849, swelling the American population of the state.
Q:
Frederick Douglass gave a famous Independence Day speech in 1852 that symbolized the increasing stridency of free blacks against slavery.
Q:
Whites and blacks decreased activity on the Underground Railroad after passage of the Compromise of 1850.
Q:
The arrival of Irish and German immigrants spurred an anti-Catholic backlash from the Anglo American Protestant core of the nation.
Q:
Many northerners responded to John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry with sympathy.
Q:
The Compromise of 1850 delayed but did not prevent the outbreak of more serious sectional conflicts.
Q:
Senator Stephen Douglas argued that the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 should be voted on as a package rather than individually to demonstrate national unity.
Q:
Popular sovereignty appealed to some politicians because its ambiguity enabled people to interpret it as they pleased.
Q:
An effective argument against the Wilmot Proviso was the fact that Congress had never before restricted the extension of slavery into new territories.
Q:
Although Lincoln received less than 40 percent of the popular vote in the election of 1860, he carried every free state except New Jersey.
Q:
General Zachary Taylor earned a living in Louisiana as a
A) corn farmer.
B) factory owner.
C) shipping magnate.
D) slave owner.
Q:
Which of the following issues faced the nation in 1849?
A) the rush of thousands of miners to California qualifying the nation for statehood.
B) the unresolved status of the Mexican cession
C) the existence of slavery and a slave market in the nation's capital
D) All of the above.
Q:
All of the following statements are true about the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin EXCEPT:
A) The book outraged the South.
B) It became an immediate bestseller.
C) It was published in 20 languages.
D) It focused on the white exploitation of Native American people.
Q:
Which of the following was NOT part of the long-term historical importance of the Scott case?
A) The Court's arguments about black citizenship infuriated northerners.
B) Prominent black leaders lost faith in the government but were galvanized by the decision.
C) Many African American slaves rebelled after the decision.
D) President Buchanan endorsed the decision, further dividing the nation.
Q:
All of the following statements are true about Dred Scott and his legal case EXCEPT:
A) Scott and his wife had filed suit for their freedom in Missouri in 1846.
B) They argued that their master had taken them into free territory, making them free people.
C) Their case reached the Supreme Court at a time when slavery had become a hot issue.
D) The court ruled that Scott was a citizen.
Q:
Which of the following events split the Democratic Party during the 1850s?
A) Lincoln-Douglas debates in Illinois
B) Dred Scott decision
C) John Brown's raid
D) All of the above.
Q:
Which of the following southern states was the first to leave the Union?
A) Virginia
B) North Carolina
C) South Carolina
D) Georgia
Q:
Which of the following men ran for office in 1860?
A) Abraham Lincoln, Republican Party
B) John Bell, Constitutional Union Party
C) Stephen Douglass, Democrat (Northern) Party
D) All of the above.
Q:
What was the long-term outcome of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry?
A) Brown survived and led a large slave army to freedom.
B) Brown was hanged and became a martyr, inflaming tensions and leading to the Civil War.
C) The South gave up on slavery.
D) The North stopped its attempt to restrict the expansion of slavery.
Q:
All of the following statements are true about the short-term facts of John Brown's raid EXCEPT:
A) The raid took place in 1859.
B) Brown led 22 men in the attack.
C) The raiders attacked a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
D) The attack was a major military success.
Q:
In the Freeport debate against Lincoln, Stephen Douglas argued that slavery
A) would not spread where it was unprofitable.
B) could not exist without favorable local legislation.
C) represented a moral and social evil.
D) should be protected in the territories.
Q:
Abraham Lincoln believed that
A) there should be immediate abolition of slavery.
B) blacks were equal to whites and deserved equal rights.
C) slavery should be placed on a course of ultimate extinction.
D) separation of the races would have harmful long-term implications.
Q:
The rejection of the Lecompton Constitution in 1858 meant that
A) its sponsors lost political prestige in the North.
B) slavery would be abolished in Kansas.
C) Kansas would enter the Union as a free state.
D) Kansas would remain a territory.
Q:
The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court
A) prompted a harsh criticism from President Buchanan.
B) ruled that Scott was not a citizen.
C) settled the political issue of slavery in the territories.
D) insulted and infuriated most southerners.
Q:
In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that
A) Congress could not ban slavery in a territory.
B) the Missouri Compromise was constitutional.
C) blacks were entitled to sue in federal courts.
D) slaves taken to free territories became free citizens.
Q:
In contrast to northerners, southerners emphasized the
A) values of economic enterprise.
B) sovereignty of the federal government.
C) importance of public education.
D) genteel life of an ordered society.
Q:
Northerners supported all of the following EXCEPT
A) public education and temperance laws.
B) the rights of free labor.
C) immigration and trade restrictions.
D) policies favoring industrial growth.
Q:
Radical abolitionist John Brown
A) beat Senator Sumner senseless with his cane.
B) delivered "The Crime Against Kansas" speech.
C) led a massacre at Pottawatomie Creek.
D) directed the sacking of Lawrence.
Q:
The election of a proslavery territorial legislature in Kansas in 1855
A) resulted from wholesale election fraud.
B) helped delay secession of the South.
C) was nullified by President Pierce.
D) accurately reflected popular sentiments.
Q:
Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854
A) opened the way for antislavery and proslavery forces to meet physically and compete for territory.
B) determined that slavery would exist in Kansas, but not Nebraska.
C) quickened westward expansion.
D) quieted sectional conflict temporarily.
Q:
The majority of Republicans in the 1850s supported a government policy to
A) abolish slavery immediately throughout the United States.
B) grant equal rights for free northern blacks.
C) prevent the expansion of slavery in the territories.
D) extend and protect slavery in the territories.
Q:
Members of the American Party feared Catholic immigrants of the 1840s and 1850s would
A) give their highest loyalty to the pope.
B) refuse to work for low wages.
C) continue to support revolutionary causes in Europe.
D) favor legislation restricting personal behavior.
Q:
The Ostend Manifesto, a document intended to pressure Spain to sell Cuba to the United States, was
A) denounced by the American ministers to Spain, France, and England.
B) urged most by those who advocated the expansion of slavery.
C) delivered to President Pierce by Secretary of State William Marcy.
D) hailed by northerners as the solution to the sectional crisis.
Q:
During the 1850s, William Walker was unsuccessful in his attempts to
A) negotiate with Spain for the purchase of Cuba.
B) command the first American trading expedition to Japan.
C) purchase lands from Mexico on which to build a transcontinental railroad.
D) capture and control new slave lands in Latin America.
Q:
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
A) won widespread support from Whigs and abolitionists.
B) reopened the question of slavery in the territories.
C) ensured the orderly settlement of Kansas.
D) strengthened party lines on the issue of slavery.
Q:
Harboring presidential ambitions, Stephen Douglas hoped to win the support of southern Democrats by recommending that the Kansas and Nebraska territories
A) contain the route of a transcontinental railroad.
B) protect the rights of slaveholders.
C) abide by the restrictions of the Missouri Compromise.
D) organize on the basis of popular sovereignty.
Q:
The election of 1852 was characterized by
A) a serious discussion of the issues.
B) widely divergent political choices.
C) voter apathy and lackluster campaigns.
D) the decisive nomination of party candidates.
Q:
During the early 1850s, political parties lost influence because of the
A) parties' sharp differences in moral tone and values.
B) standardization of various state political and economic procedures.
C) general decline in national economic prosperity.
D) nomination of dynamic independent political leaders.
Q:
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852),
A) pictured slaves as basically happy and content.
B) achieved enormous popular success.
C) glorified northerners and vilified southerners.
D) enraged President Lincoln as dangerous propaganda.
Q:
As a consequence of the Compromise of 1850
A) political parties realigned more closely along sectional lines.
B) several states invalidated personal liberty laws.
C) more serious sectional conflict was avoided.
D) ideas such as secession and abolitionism were repudiated.
Q:
Northerners were offended by the provision of the Fugitive Slave Act that
A) accorded a jury trial to the alleged fugitive.
B) designated a higher fee for commissioners deciding to return rather than free a fugitive.
C) created a panel of commissioners to decide special cases.
D) restricted northern citizens from assisting in the capture or return of fugitive slaves.
Q:
The provisions of the Compromise of 1850
A) left unresolved the status of territories in the Mexican cession.
B) allowed for lax enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
C) established one of the largest slave markets in the nation's capital.
D) upset the balance between free and slave states in the Union.
Q:
Which of the following factors did NOT contribute to Zachary Taylor's victory in the election of 1848?
A) Democratic defections to the Free Soil Party
B) successful evasion of the controversial slavery issue
C) heroic military exploits during the Mexican War
D) long record of political participation and leadership
Q:
According to the doctrine of popular sovereignty, the decision whether to permit slavery in a territory would be made by the
A) local territorial legislature.
B) president of the United States.
C) Missouri Compromise line.
D) Congress of the United States.
Q:
According to South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, Congress lacked the power to
A) exclude slavery from the territories.
B) increase the tariff above a nominal rate.
C) prohibit the importation of slaves.
D) impose a "gag rule" on antislavery debate.
Q:
The supporters of "free soil" in the territories made all of the following arguments EXCEPT that
A) northern white farmers could not compete with large-scale slave labor.
B) blacks should be granted equality and allowed to seek western lands.
C) slavery was a moral evil and should not be extended.
D) free western land belonged to white men only.
Q:
In the 60 years after the Constitutional Convention, compromise over questions relating to slavery had been possible because of the
A) willingness of Congress to avoid the issue.
B) existence of a two-party system with intersectional membership.
C) lack of significant differences of opinion.
D) common bonds and loyalties forged during the Revolution.
Q:
As many as ________ Indians gathered at the Ft. Laramie Council of 1851.
Q:
During the 1840s, ________ and Anglo Americans came into extensive contact for the first time.
Q:
For ________, the gold rush in California was a disaster of epic proportions.