DePlanche US History EOC REVIEW Game 2

Consider the following headlines: “Missouri Compromise Allows Two New States into the Union” “Congress Agrees to Compromise of 1850” “Popular Sovereignty Adopted Under Kansas- Nebraska Act”
Which issue is reflected in these headlines?  

• status of slavery in the territories and states
• growth of agriculture on the Great Plains 
• clash of federal and state powers 
• conflicts with foreign nations over the West 

Prior to 1850, what was a main reason the North developed an economy increasingly based on manufacturing while the South continued to rely on an economy based on agriculture?

• Protective tariffs applied only to northern seaports. 
• Manufacturers failed to make a profit in the South
• Slavery in the North promoted rapid economic growth.
• Geographic conditions supported different types of economies

Why did the Dred Scott decision upset people in the northern states

• It removed all limits to the spread of slavery
• It increased the likelihood that the slave trade would be reestablished. 
• It increased the likelihood that the southern states would secede from the Union
• It weakened support for Abraham Lincoln's selection as a Republican candidate

The Confederate defeat at Vicksburg was important because it 

• ended the last major Confederate invasion of the North
• resulted in the Confederacy being split in half along the Mississippi River
• caused Jefferson Davis to resign as president of the Confederacy.
• forced Robert E. Lee to leave Virginia and take command in the West

Which of the following was a belief held by John Brown (1800.1859)

• Individual states should decide whether to permit slavery
• Abolitionists should work for gradual change
• The South should work to diversify its economic base
• Slavery should be abolished by violent means, if necessary

Which factor provided a military advantage during the U.S. Civil War

• Eighty percent of the nation’s factories existed in the North
• Southern merchant ships outnumbered those controlled by the North
• Seventy percent of U.S. railroad tracks existed in southern territory
• The North made an alliance with France to receive troops and other aid to fight the South

Which of the following BEST describes African Americans and the right to vote in the South in the late 1800s and early 1900s? 

• African Americans had the right to vote in theory, but in practice they were often prevented from voting by various means.
• African Americans had the right to vote, but they generally chose not to participate in politics
• African Americans who were former slaves or their descendants could not vote
• African Americans were guaranteed the right to vote by federal troops

The agency with the GREATEST impact on helping former slaves adjust to their new lives after the American Civil War was 

• the State Department
• the Freedmen's Bureau
• the Emancipation Department
• the Bureau of Family and Human Services 

By virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Federal government is allowed to Consider the following: Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, all citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 

• allocate funding for government programs
• create taxes on the income on all citizens
• enforce laws on the behalf of all citizens
• forbid states from placing limits on the rights of its citizens

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was primarily meant to

• Grant citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
• end the institution of slavery in the United States
• allow former slaves the right to vote
• allow women the right to vote