US History Test 2

What was the Supreme Court decision in the 1856 case, Scott v. Sandford?

• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

• Giving Dred Scott freedom would violate property rights.

• Dred Scott did not have the right to bring a suit to federal court.

• all of these

Both Southern and Northern moderates suggested colonizing new territories using popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty would allow

• voters to decide if America as a whole would be a territory with or without slavery.

• the Senate to vote whether it was antislavery or proslavery.

• the Senate to choose which states were antislavery, and which were proslavery.

• voters to determine if slavery was permitted in their territory.

What did the Emancipation Proclamation actually achieve when it was issued on January 1, 1863?

• The Confederacy gave all of its enslaved people their freedom on that day.

• The Confederate states rejoined the Union rather than free their enslaved people.

• Thousands of formerly enslaved people living in the North began to return to their Southern homes.

• The Union gained a great moral purpose, to win the war in order to end slavery.

What allowed white voters to get around literacy tests and poll taxes?

• Jim Crow laws

• black codes

• Fifteenth Amendment

• grandfather clause

What farming system started during Reconstruction in which former slaves rented land from white planters and paid their rent with a portion of what they grew?

• sharecropping

• pseudo-slavery

• plantation-system

• Jim Crow

Created in 1865, the ______ provided food, clothing, education and legal advice to newly freed slaves.

• Freedman's Bureau

• Tuskegee Institute

• Freedom Train

• Department of Reconstruction

These Northerners saw the reconstruction South as a chance to get rich quickly by seizing political office now barred from the old order.

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Confederates

• Colfax Massacre

Laissez-Faire Economics

• Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices

• A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products

• A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors

• Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top

Vertical Integration

• Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices

• A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products

• A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors

• Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top

Horizontal Integration

• Economic system in which the government does not intervene in business practices

• A business practice in which a single manufacturer controls all of the steps used to change raw materials into finished products

• A business practice in which a company takes over all of its competitors

• Theory that claims the best people in society are the ones who rise to the top