USH Final Exam REVIEW (FALL 2019)

What did the Missouri Compromise of 1850, and "Bleeding Kansas" have in common?

• They were all vetoed by President Abraham Lincoln

• They helped Abraham Lincoln win the election of 1860

• They all dealt with the expansion of slavery into the western territories

• They were permanent solutions to the conflict between the north and south

What group was created in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, for the purpose of preventing both the programs of Reconstruction and laws promoting racial equality?

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Know Nothing Party

• White Citizens Council

One purpose of General William T. Sherman's 'March to the Sea' was to ________________________.

• break the spirits of Confederate citizens.

• allow troops under his command to get rest.

• find ships to sail his soldiers to the north.

• prove that he was the most skilled Union general

Which Civil War battle was significant in that the Union army was able to halt Robert E. Lee's invasion of the north?

• Fredericksburg

• Gettysburg

• Shiloh

• Trenton

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

Nat Turner is MOST known in American history for

• leading an unsuccessful slave revolt in Virginia in the 1830's

• leading the first all-black army regiment during the Civil War.

• being the first African slave to come to British North America.

• being a leading intellectual abolitionist orator before the Civil War.

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 tension 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.

The Treaty of Paris of 1783

• ended French colonial holdings in North America.

• eventually became a major cause of the Mexican War.

• granted the United States independence from England.

• ensured Loyalists would not be compensated for their lands.

Mercantilism was the principle that

• the purpose of colonies was to economically benefit the mother country.

• the English colonies would lose their legal rights and elected assemblies.

• a government could tax without consent of the taxpayers for the purpose of regulating trade.

• colonists would henceforth be required to pay taxes to the crown to fund their own protection.

The Founding Fathers gained support for the Constitution by promising that

• all free males would be able to vote.

• the President would be from the South.

• a Bill of Rights would be established.

• citizens would not be required to pay taxes.