Civil War Review

The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?

• Admitted Texas to the Union as a slave state.

• Admitted California to the Union under the principles of popular sovereignty.

• Prohibited slavery in the District of Columbia.

• Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law.

Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

• England

• Africa

• Ireland

• The German states

The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) represented a departure from earlier practices in which of the following ways?

• It established the principle of judicial review, the practice in which the Supreme Court has the authority to evaluate whether laws are consistent with the Constitution.

• It held that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.

• It expanded fugitive slave laws that permitted slaveholders to recover formerly enslaved people even if they had escaped to free states.

• It introduced the idea of popular sovereignty, the arrangement in which residents of a federal territory could vote whether that territory would allow slavery.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to which of the following earlier legislative initiatives?

• The Missouri Compromise in 1820

• The forced removal of American Indians

• The funding of internal improvements under the American System

• The annexation of Texas in 1836

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT

• higher protective tariffs

• government subsidies for a transcontinental railroad

• the abolition of slavery throughout the United States

• the exclusion of slavery from United States territorial possessions

At the beginning of the Civil War, Southerners expressed all of the following expectations EXCEPT:

• The materialism of the North would prevent Northerners from fighting an idealistic war.

• Great Britain would intervene on the side of the South in order to preserve its source of cotton.

• Northern unity in the struggle against the Southern states would eventually break.

• The South’s superior industrial resources would give it an advantage over the North.

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to

• strengthen the moral cause of the Union

• abolish slavery

• free slaves held in the border states

• alienate Britain and France

The Union’s victory at Gettysburg was significant because it

• prevented Britain and Russia from intervening in the Civil War

• prompted Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

• halted the last major Confederate invasion of the North

• gave the Union control over the Mississippi River

In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with

• establishing the Freedmen’s Bureau

• guaranteeing all citizens the right to vote

• protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves

• protecting the powers of the southern state governments established under Andrew Johnson

The cartoon above is intended to express

• a critique of Reconstruction

• opposition to women’s rights

• opposition to states’ rights

• support for strong government