Sectionalism to Reconstruction

Which two areas of the map made up the United States in 1803 as a result of the Louisiana Purchase?

• A and B

• A and D

• B and D

• E and G

What was one result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)?

• Sectional tension increased.

• The slave trade was abolished.

• Northern states were more willing to compromise.

• Southern states immediately seceded from the Union.

Which quotation best represents the idea of Manifest Destiny?

• “American interests are best served by strict isolationism.”

• “The passage of protective tariffs will encourage industrial development.”

• “Immigration is the key to the nation’s economic growth.”

• “The United States has a duty to spread American ideals westward.”

The Reconstruction plans of President Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson included a provision for the

• resumption of full participation in Congress by Southern States

• long-term military occupation of the Confederacy

• payment of war reparations by Southern States

• harsh punishment of former Confederate officials

What was a common purpose of the three amendments added to the United States Constitution between 1865 and 1870?

• extending suffrage to Southern women

• reforming the sharecropping system

• granting rights to African Americans

• protecting rights of Southerners accused of treason

The publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, contributed to the start of the Civil War by

• convincing Congress to ban the importation of slaves

• pressuring the president to support emancipation

• intensifying Northern dislike of slavery

• exposing the dangers of cotton manufacturing

Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 warning that “a house divided against itself cannot stand” referred to sectional differences over the

• treaties with European nations

• funding for internal improvements

• issue of slavery

• treatment of Native American Indians

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were used in the South after 1890 to

• support the goals of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• deny suffrage rights to African Americans

• undermine the “separate but equal” ruling of the Supreme Court

• enforce the amendments enacted during the Civil War and Reconstruction

As the Civil War ended, which action was supported by President Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans?

• abolishing the institution of slavery by a constitutional amendment

• passing Black Codes to guarantee equality for formerly enslaved persons

• putting Confederate leaders on trial for war crimes

• ending the military occupation of the South immediately

Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to

• integrate freedmen into American society

• enforce the Emancipation Proclamation

• expand educational opportunities

• limit the rights of newly freed African Americans