Benchmark Two for U.S. History

Manifest Destiny is —

• a song that was sung as the settlers moved west

• the quota of immigrants allowed to come to the United States

• an idea that westward expansion was for the good of the country

• the title of a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine during the Revolutionary War

_{"Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a warm supper and a bed to poor, starving creatures, just because they are slaves, and have been abused and oppressed all their lives, poor things!"}

Based on the above quote, what action would Stowe most likely support?

• Disenfranchisement

• Abolition

• Nullification

• Sectionalism

Which document allowed for the enlistment of African American soldiers in the Civil War?

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Thirteenth Amendment

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Declaration of Independence

Identify two states that were given popular sovereignty as a result of the Compromise of 1850.

• A. Texas

• E. Utah

• C. Missouri

• D. California

• New Mexico

Which state was the first to secede?

• South Carolina

• Virginia

• Pennsylvania

• Delaware

After secession, the southern states were called:

• The Confederate States of America

• The United Colonies of the Confederacy

• The Union

• The United States of America

Who gave the Gettysburg Address?

• General Grant

• Robert E. Lee

• Abraham Lincoln

• Susan B. Anthony

Answer explanation

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Southern states tried to limit the impact of the 13 th, 14 th, and 15 th Amendments by —

• seceding from the Union

• ending racial discrimination

• passing Jim Crow laws

• participating in the Civil War

Which amendment ended slavery?

• 13 th Amendment

• 1 st Amendment

• 14 th Amendment

• 19 th Amendment

Which Constitutional amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision?

• 13th amendment

• 15th amendment

• 14th amendment

• 19th amendment

Answer explanation

This is a court case we've discussed in class--Dred Scott v. Sanford.