Review 10.19

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Multiple Choice

“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the

aggressors… We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Through passion may

have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”

—Abraham Lincoln, in his first Inaugural Address

Which answer choice most accurately describes Lincoln’s feelings, as expressed in the quoted

excerpt?

• He appealed to the citizens to reconcile their differences peacefully

• Abolition was his only answer to the growing problem of a possible civil war

• He asked them for stern resistance to compromise

• He demanded a call to arms to put down the enemies

Multiple Choice

The poll tax, the literacy test and the actions of the Ku Klux Klan were all attempts to limit the effectiveness of:

• Immigration laws such as the Gentleman’s Agreement and the Chinese Exclusion Act

• Civil rights legislation passed in all states after the Civil War

• The 14th and 15th amendments

• The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown vs Board of Education

Multiple Choice

How did the Freedmen’s Bureau assist freed slaves in the South after the Civil War?

• It created a system of sharecropping

• It created educational opportunities for them by founding schools throughout the South

• It helped start small businesses

• It gave them each forty acres of land

Multiple Choice

In the fall of 1862, what was one immediate effect of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?

• It ended the Civil War

• It created confusion in the South

• It led European countries to ally with the South

• It abolished slavery in all states of the Union

Multiple Choice

Early in his Presidency, Abraham Lincoln declared that his primary goal as President was to:

• Preserve the Union

• Enforce the Emancipation Proclamation

• End slavery throughout the entire country

• Spread slavery throughout the Union

Multiple Choice

The Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case could be considered a:

• Victory for the pro-slave south

• Victory for both the North and South

• Victory for the anti-slave North

• None of the answers

Multiple Choice

During the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the spoils system resulted in

• Federal laws being nullified by the states

• All free males being given the right to vote

• Elected officials rewarding their supporters with government jobs

• The end of political corruption in the federal government

Multiple Choice

A major reason for the issuance of the Monroe Doctrine (1823) was to

• prevent further European colonization in the Caribbean region

• discourage United States trade with Latin America

• provide economic aid to Latin American nations

• defend the Panama Canal from Great Britain

Multiple Choice

In the colonial era, New England Town Meetings and the Virginia House of Burgesses represented…

• Efforts by the British to strengthen their control over the colonies

• Colonial attempts to build a strong national government

• Early social reform movements

• Examples of representative democracy