Period 5 APUSH review

What is the correct order of events

• Mexican American war, Gadsden purchase, annexation of Texas, pacific railway act

• Mexican American war, annexation of Texas, Gadsden purchase, pacific railway act

• Annexation of Texas, pacific railway act, Mexican American war, Gadsden purchase

• Annexation of Texas, Mexican American War, Gadsden purchase, pacific railway act

When and what was fort Sumter

• Union fort located in the harbor of Charleston SC after being attacked by confederate forces. Lincoln called for volunteers to suppress rebellion starting civil war 1861

• Union fort located in harbor of Charleston SC after being attacked by union forces. Lincoln called for volunteers to suppress rebellion starting civil war 1861

• Union forces located in the harbor of Charleston SC after being attacked by union forces. Lincoln called for volunteers to suppress rebellion starting civil war 1870

• Northern troops led by William T Sherman marched through Georgia destroying everything 1864

Who was the first African American to serve in the senate

• Blanche K Bruce

• Robert Smalls

• Hiram Revels

What is the correct order of events

• appomattox courthouse, March of the sea, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Antietam

• Antietam, Vicksburg, March of the sea, Gettysburg, Appomattox court house

• Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, March of the sea, Appomattox court house

• Antietam, Gettysburg, March of the sea, Vicksburg, Appomattox court house

What was the Freeport Doctrine

• 1858 Ruled that African Americans were property and couldn’t sue in court. Claimed Missouri compromise was unconstitutional

• 1858 Belief held by senator Stephen Douglass that a territory could exclude slavery by creating laws that made slavery impossible

• 1858 law that allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas on the law of slavery which led to a mini civil war

• 1858 suggested that Kansas be entered as a slave state. It was rejected

What two groups were essentially two versions of the same racist southerners?

• Redeemers and KKK

• KKK and carpet baggers

• Redeemers and carpet baggers

• Scalawags and carpet baggers

What is the “order” of the presidents

• Polk, Johnson, Lincoln, Hayes

• Hayes, Polk, Johnson, Lincoln

• Polk, Lincoln Johnson, Hayes

• Lincoln, Polk, Hayes, Johnson

What was the compromise of 1850

• Attempt to reconcile north and south over slavery. Written by Henry clay and admitted California as a free state and popular sovereignty in NM and Utah included the fugitive slave law and ended slave trade in DC

• Amendment to appropriations bill proposing that any territory from Mexico be closed to slavery. It was defeated in the senate but sparked a national debate

• republicans gain presidency under Rutherford b Hayes in turn Hayes agreed to remove northern troops from southern states

• Agreement between north and south that California would be a free state as long as popular sovereignty was established in Kansas

What and when was the homestead act?

• Law that gave loans to land to subsidize construction of a railroad to Pacific coast. Chinese were responsible for manual labor to build (1862)

• Law that provide 160 acres of land to anyone who lived on the land and cultivated it. Led to a mass movement to the west after the civil war (1862)

• Site where Union Pacific and central pacific met completing the first transcontinental railway line

• US and British divided Oregon along the 49th parallel

What was the pacific railroad act

• Allowed promontory point Utah to make profit off of the transcontinental railroad

• Through Congress the US annexed and granted statehood to republic of Texas

• Granted 160 acres of settlers who lived and cultivated the land

• Law that gave loans and land to subsidized construction of a railroad to pacific coast. Enabled Americans to move west easily after civil war.