Civil War Review

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The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following? Admitted Texas to the Union as a slave state. Admitted California to the Union under the principles of popular sovereignty. Prohibited slavery in the District of Columbia. Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law.

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Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law.

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Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century? England, Africa, Ireland, The German states

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Ireland

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The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) represented a departure from earlier practices in which of the following ways?

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It held that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to which of the following earlier legislative initiatives? The Missouri Compromise in 1820, The forced removal of American Indians, The funding of internal improvements under the American System, The annexation of Texas in 1836

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The Missouri Compromise in 1820

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In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT: higher protective tariffs, government subsidies for a transcontinental railroad, the exclusion of slavery from United States territorial possessions.

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the abolition of slavery throughout the United States

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At the beginning of the Civil War, Southerners expressed all of the following expectations EXCEPT: The materialism of the North would prevent Northerners from fighting an idealistic war. Great Britain would intervene on the side of the South in order to preserve its source of cotton. Northern unity in the struggle against the Southern states would eventually break. The South’s superior industrial resources would give it an advantage over the North.

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The South’s superior industrial resources would give it an advantage over the North.

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When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to

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strengthen the moral cause of the Union

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The Union’s victory at Gettysburg was significant because it halted the last major Confederate invasion of the North.

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halted the last major Confederate invasion of the North

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In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with: guaranteeing all citizens the right to vote

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guaranteeing all citizens the right to vote

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The cartoon above is intended to express

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a critique of Reconstruction