USH Unit 5 Sectionalism, Civil War, Reconstruction

In the early 1800s, many people in the United States migrated westwards because

• of the availability of farmland.
• of the growing timber industry
• transportation was easy thanks to the Transcontinental Railroad.
• they wanted to escape slavery, which was illegal in western territories.

By the end of the Reconstruction era, most African-Americans in the United States

• found themselves increasingly left out of the political process because of poll taxes and literacy tests
• had made tremendous economic and social gains in the South as a result of constitutional amendments.
• began to migrate in massive numbers to the rural South to pursue farming jobs
• found themselves owners of the land their ancestors had worked on as slaves

Manifest Destiny advanced the belief that

• God was on the side of American expansion.
• the Democratic Party would elect the next President
• slavery should be abolished in the United States
• new territory would lead to more slavery

The strife in "Bleeding Kansas" was associated with a conflict between _____ and _____.

• free-soilers and slavery supporters
• Catholics and Protestants
• immigrants and nativists
• slaves and masters

The people who traveled on the majority of the trails seen here were PRIMARILY

• seeking new lands at low prices

• Indians removed from reservations.

• seeking religious freedoms.

• seeking gold.

According to this map, the Oregon territory

• was acquired from Britain

• remained in foreign control

• was purchased because of the Mexican War

• was part of the Texas Annexation of 1846.

This amendment was created primarily for the purpose of

• granting former slaves suffrage.

• avoiding another Civil War.

• punishing southern states

• granting women the right to vote.

This law, which allowed territories to decide the fate of slavery based on popular sovereignty, unintentionally had the effect of increasing tensions between pro-slavery and antislavery forces as they rushed west and had violent clashes over control of territory. It was the

• Kansas-Nebraska Act.
• Northwest Ordinance.
• Fugitive Slave Act.
• Compromise of 1850

Which of these battles was a major victory for the Union in the American Civil War?

• Gettysburg
• First Bull Run
• Second Bull Run
• Chickamauga Creek

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

• save the Union
• win the Election of 1864
• destroy the South
• end slavery.