First Semester Final Review

The goal of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to

• prevent African Americans from voting.

• force African Americans to move north.

• abolish slavery.

• help former slaves adjust to freedom.

Which of the following is mostly identified as an underlying political cause of the American Revolution?

• the speeches of Samuel Adams

• the issue of taxation without representation

• boycotts organized by the Sons of Liberty

• bounties paid for by colonial built ships

Which of the following is the first elected legislature of the American Colonies?

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• First Continental Congress

• Parliament

The Emancipation Proclamation freed?

• enslaved people living in the territories

• enslaved people living in areas controlled by the Confederacy

• enslaved people in Africa

• enslaved people living in the Union states

How did the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack change warfare?

• more men joined the navy

• no change to warfare occurred

• more wooden boats were built

• nations started building iron navies

During the 1840s, abolitionists opposed annexation of new western territory because they

• were concerned with the legal rights of Native American Indians

• supported an isolationist foreign policy

• wanted to limit the power of the national government

• feared the admission of new slave states

A major failure of Reconstruction was that

• the South’s cotton production never recovered.

• war debts remained unpaid.

• no African Americans were voted into Congress.

• racist attitudes continued in the North and South.

Which battle was the bloodiest of the Civil War?

• Appomattox

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

The Battle of Yorktown resulted in

• a Colonial retreat into Virginia

• a victory for the British Army and Navy

• the capture of Hessian mercenaries

• the signing of the Treaty of Paris

What was the main reason the Congress of the Articles of Confederation failed?

• It proved unable to provide strong national leadership

• It began to repeat the oppressive policies that had once been followed by the British Parliament

• It was unable to settle claims by several states to lands in the West

• It restricted the rights of the states