US History A EOCA Review

The abolition movement campaigned for

• an end to slavery.
• abolishing the evils of alcohol.
• territorial expansion.
• women's rights.

Which political party was formed to oppose the extension of slavery into the territories?               

• Know-Nothing
• Republican
• Whig
• Democrat

Lincoln's main concern in fighting the Civil War was   

• maintaining Republican political power.
• freeing the slaves.
• restoring the Union.
• being reelected.

The Northern war strategy for dividing up the South and preventing it from receiving outside help was called the

• Cobra Policy.
• Anaconda Plan.
• Exhaustion Policy.
• Scott Policy.

Actor and Confederate sympathizer who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln was 

• John Wilkes Booth
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• Andrew Johnson
• Gavrilo Princip

___________ wrote the book, The Jungle to expose the horrors of the meat packing industry. 

• Upton Sinclair
• Theodore Roosevelt
• William Seward
• Alfred Mahan

Massacre of Native Americans in South Dakota, considered the last “battle” of the Indian Wars. 

• Wounded Knee
• Battle of Little Big Horn
• Nez Perce War
• Red River War

Reckless Civil War general, during the Indian Wars, he got himself and his men massacred along Montana’s Little Big Horn River

• George Custer
• Chief Joseph
• Dred Scott
• William Sherman

As Secretary of State, he negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia.

• William Seward
• Andrew Johnson
• Theodore Roosevelt
• John Kerry

Naval historian, whose ideas convinced many that the U.S. should build a strong navy and acquire overseas possessions to protect American trade.

• Alfred Mahan
• Commodore Dewey
• General McArthur
• Admiral McHale