US Unit 5 U5 Test Review 2022

The Plessy v. Ferguson ruling upheld

• corporate consolidation.

• racial segregation.

• government subsidies of business.

• Granger laws.

The belief that the United States had a special mission to expand over the entire North American continent was known as

• divine providence.

• Manifest Destiny.

• nullification.

• American exceptionalism.

 What became the most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850?

• The admission of California as a free state

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The banning of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• The potential opening up of Utah and New Mexico territories to slavery

Which of the following refers to the Southern tendency to vote Democrat that existed for almost a century after the Civil War?

• Dixiecrat Populism

• The Solid South

• Uncle Tom

• Jim Crow

Which statement best explains the increase in sectionalism between 1820 and 1850?

• Westward expansion created a heated debate over the nation’s policy concerning American Indians.

• Westward expansion caused a recurring debate over the expansion of slavery into the new territories.

• Westward expansion during the period occurred faster across the northern plains than the southern river deltas.

• Westward expansion created a need for government spending to improve transportation.

The North’s victory at Antietam allowed President Lincoln to

• issue the Emancipation Proclamation

• seek military assistance from Great Britain

• force the border states to remain in the Union

• keep General McClellan as commander of the Union forces

What is Abraham Lincoln’s goal at the beginning of the Civil War?

• to end slavery in all of the United States

• to preserve or save the Union by reuniting the states

• to free slaves in the Union only

• to object to going to war with the South

The leader of Confederate military forces during the Civil War was:

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Winfield Scott

• Robert E. Lee

• George McClellan

Why did Reconstruction end in 1877?

• The freed slaves had been successfully integrated into Southern Society.

• The treaty ending the Civil War had set such a time limit.

• Most of the politically active Black people had left the South for Northern cities.

• The Republican and Democratic parties enacted a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election.

Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan was most opposed by __

• President Johnson.

• Radical Republicans.

• Former Southern slave owners.

• Conservative Republicans.