What did Abraham Lincoln's 1858 warning that "a house divided against itself cannot stand" refer to?

• the treatment of Native American Indians
• the sectional differences over the issue of slavery
• the funding of internal improvements
• the treaties with other European nations

How are Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Grimke sisters all similar?

• they all fought for the south
• they all were abolitionist
• they all supported the nullification theory of states rights
• they all supported the plantation system in the south

What did the federal government attempt to do with the passage of both the Missouri Compromise of
1820 and the Compromise of 1850?

• both allowed popular sovereignty
• both reduced the conflict over expansion of slavery
• they both settled border disputes with Mexico
• both were very harsh on slave holders

What was one major result of the North's victory in the Civil War?

• The power of the Supreme Court was limited.
• Slave owners were compensated for their losses.
• The influence of corporations on government was reduced.
• The supremacy of the national government was upheld.

What was a common goal of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution?

• punishing the South for seceding from the Union
• granting basic rights to formerly enslaved persons
• allowing the states to veto federal laws
• creating a "separate but equal" society

What time period was this cartoon from?

• Civil War
• Gilded Age
• Reconstruction
• Antebellum

What impact did the Election of 1876 have on the United States of America?

• Samuel Tilden became the first Democratic President since the Civil War.
• A political compromise effectively ended Reconstruction.
• This election marked the start of the Civil War.
• This election marked the end of Manifest Destiny

What was the significance of the 54th Massachusetts regiment during the Civil War?

• The regiment defeated Union troops at Fort Sumter.
• The regiment defended the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg.
• The regiment achieved victory for the Union during the first naval battle fought between
  ironclads.
• The regiment gained respect and notoriety for African American soldiers who joined the Union.

Read the following list.
-Fewer textile jobs
-Jim Crow laws
-Intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan
-Depressed cotton profits
All of these led to which event?

• the exhaustion of southern soil
• the industrialization of the south
• the migration of African Americans to the North
• the migration of ethnic minorities to the South

What does the graphic above represent?

• the difficulty in transporting goods throughout the United States
• the Union strategy during the Civil War
• the problems created because the USA did not have a transcontinental railroad
• the superiority of southern naval armaments during the Civil War