Most Missed Questions on USATP BM#3

What impact did U.S. governmental policies have on business and industry during the late 1800s?

• The U.S. government regulated industry for the public good.

• The U.S. government had little or no influence on business and industry.

• The U.S. government tried to limit and regulate industrial and business growth.

• The U.S. government tried to control public and private utilities and transportation.

The Sioux and Sitting Bull led the attack on General George Armstrong Custer's cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Why did the Sioux take this course of action?

• General Custer wanted Congress to outlaw the Sioux's ritual Ghost Dance.

• The Transcontinental Railroad was moving through the area the Sioux inhabited.

• Sioux leaders had forged a military alliance with French Canadian forces in an attempt to take back land.

• The U.S. Government had broken promises to let the Sioux remain in the Black Hills and was attempting to force them from those lands.

Manifest Destiny advanced the belief that

• new territory would lead to more slavery.

• God was on the side of American expansion.

• slavery should be abolished in the United States.

• the Democratic Party would elect the next President.

In American history, the term ¨Reconstruction¨ refers to

• problems associated with the transformation to an industrial economy.

• the admission of Western territories to the U.S. as either Free or Slave states.

• federal government intervention in the former Confederate states in order to monitor the treatment of former slaves.

• the establishment of a new system of agriculture in the western states and territories based on industrial machinery.

Abraham Lincoln's biggest objective in the Civil War was to

• end slavery.

• save the Union.

• destroy the South.

• win the Election of 1864

Race of Delegates to

1867 State Constitutional Conventions

Race of Delegates to 1867 State Constitutional Conventions

State White Black %White Statewide WhitePop.(%)

Virginia 80 25 76% 58

N. C. 107 13 89% 63

S.C. 48 76 39% 41

Georgia 133 33 80% 54

F.L. 28 18 61% 51

A.L. 92 16 85% 52

M.S. 68 17 80% 46

Which statement BEST describes the essence of this chart?

• Despite the many gains since the Civil War, blacks in the Reconstruction Era still struggled to find political participation.

• Because no Constitutional Amendments had been passed, blacks could not have any political power in the South.

• Blacks were proportionally represented in all Southern states at the Constitutional Convention.

• The Freedmen's Bureau had been successful in gaining land and education for former slaves.

Sectionalism was a major part of the events that led to the Civil War. What does sectionalism refer to?

• women and men worked in different areas

• people wanted to live further apart from each other

• life in the North was very different than life in the South

• the United States hoped to expand into new areas of the world

Which of these statements is the most ACCURATE explanation for why Andrew Johnson was impeached but the House of Representatives in 1868?

• Congress believed the Speaker of the House, Schuyler Colfax, should be President.

• There were many times in which Johnson clashed with Congress, not just one violation of federal Law.

• Congress did not like the fact that Johnson was a Southern Republican and wanted him out of office.

• Johnson had done nothing wrong for almost three years, but when he accidentally broke the law Congress wanted to punish him.

How did the Mexican-American War lead to greater sectionalism within the United States government?

• Tensions rose over cotton and tobacco production in Texas and how these goods would be distributed in the U.S. markets.

• Many Republicans did not support the war with Mexico, creating tensions in the House and Senate as James K. Polk promoted the war.

• There was great tension between pro-slavery and anti-slavery representatives over how new territories won would handle the issue of slavery.

• Many American settlers in the West did not support the war because they wanted to be exempt from paying taxes to the United States government.

Andrew Jackson was the first president to

• veto Congressional bills in which he strongly disagreed.

• affect the development and purpose of presidential power.

• intensify the use of the spoils system in federal government.

• champion states' rights at the expense of national sovereignty.