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Under the Reconstruction Act of 1867, what happened to former Confederate leaders?

• They were imprisoned for war crimes.

• They were forced to give their land to freed slaves.

• They were prevented from holding political office.

• They were exiled to American colonies in Latin America.

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 event directly contributed to the end of Reconstruction in the United States?

• the Nullification Crisis

• the Presidential election of 1876

• the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• the Roosevelt Corollary

Both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 were intended to settle disputed over

• immigration from Europe.

• territorial conflicts with Mexico.

• the spread of slavery.

• tariffs on imports.

By 1863, MOST military planners knew that the South could not continue to fight indefinitely because

• increasing numbers of Southern citizens no longer supported the Confederate cause.

• the Southern industrial base was too weak to support the expense of waging war.

• large numbers of former slaves were joining the union army.

• the Southern leadership was too inexperienced to fight against Northern armies and navies.

Use the quotation to answer the question below.

Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak her today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in the Declaration of Independence, extended to us?

--Frederick Douglass, 1852

Why did Frederick Douglass make this statement?

• to defend the sovereignty of smaller U.S. states

• to support the struggle of U.S. factory workers

• to criticize the practice of slavery in the United States

• to debate the restriction of immigration to the United States

Which issue was the subject of the Nullification Crisis of the early 1830s?

• the abolition of slavery

• the protection of states´ rights

• the dangers of westward expansion

• the movement of women´s suffrage

In the 1830s which U.S. political figure argued that states had the right to nullify federal laws they believed were unconstitutional?

• James Monroe

• Andrew Jackson

• John C. Calhoun

• Alexander Hamilton

What role did William T. Sherman play during the U.S. Civil War?

• He surrendered Confederate control of the Mississippi River at Vicksburg.

• He commanded Union forces during the bloodiest one-day battle at Antietam.

• He launched an unsuccessful Confederate invasion of Union territory at Gettysburg.

• He divided Confederate territory in a destructive Union march through Georgia.

Use these quotes to answer the question.

¨The slaveholding states will no longer have the power of self-government, or self-protection, and the federal government will become their enemy...¨

-- South Carolina legislature, Declaration of the Causes of Secession, 1860

¨The Union is older than any of the states, and, in fact, it created them as states.¨

-- Abraham Lincoln, 1861

The quotes above represent two sides in which important conflict in American History?

• the conflict over how much independence states should have in the federal system

• the conflict over what level of representation small states should have in the federal legislature

• the conflict over whether or not to add an amendment to the Constitution that would free all slaves

• the conflict over whether or not to forcibly remove Native Americans from their lands in the West