Worksheets1301 Final Review!
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
The Wilmot Proviso, admission of California into the Union, and the Missouri Compromise focused on what?
The slaves should be freed immediately
Popular sovereignty needed to be used
Ex-slaves should be sent to another part of the world
slave should be counted as three-fifths of a person
The extension of slavery was a volatile issue
Which problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin?
Whitney figured out how to remove the cotton-destroying boll weevil and thereby save the cotton crop.
Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task, but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive.
Processing cotton required too many different pieces of equipment more easily and quickly, saving time and money
Planting the cotton took too many hours to make its growth very profitable, but Whitney enabled planters to use a machine to speed the planting
The production of southern whiskey required the use of cotton in purifying the liquor, but the cotton absorbed too much liquid; Whitney’s machine changed that
Why did the Spanish establish missions in California?
They were tools to turn Indians into hard-working Christians
They were vehicles that could preserve Indian language and culture
They were institutions where the Spanish studied Indians religions
They were outposts to help attract Indian emigration to Spain
They were churches that only the Spanish were allowed to use
Who was the first president of the Republic of Texas?
Stephen Austin
James Polk
Santa Anna
Sam Houston
Andrew Jackson
Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?
The Methodist Church, the nation’s largest denomination, called on all its members to free their slaves
Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave
Members of the abolitionist Republican Party, formed in 1844, insisted on debating slavery
President John Tyler’s antislavery policies caused a major proslavery backlash led by John C. Calhoun
As the 1848 constitutional deadline for ending the African slave trade drew near, Americans became obsessed with slavery
In 1821, the opening of the Santa Fe Trail between Santa Fe and __________ led to a reorientation of New Mexico’s commerce from the rest of Mexico to the United States
Houston, Texas
San Diego, California
New Orleans, Louisiana
Omaha, Nebraska
Independence, Missouri
Why did so many northerners, including the so-called Independent Democrats, oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
They opposed the admission of both territories as states.
The act repealed the fugitive slave act.
The act would bring about immediate abolition.
The act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
They opposed the act because it did not embrace “popular sovereignty.”
Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan:
completely repudiated Lincoln’s.
would restore the Union fairly quickly.
gave the vote to all black men.
aimed to keep elite planters in power.
would leave the South completely unchanged.
During the Mexican War:
Mexican troops occupied much of Texas after winning at the Alamo.
the bulk of the fighting occurred in California.
for the first time, U.S. troops occupied a foreign capital.
an American revolt in California led briefly to a monarchy.
Whigs strongly supported Polk’s policies.
In 1850, a majority of southern slaveholders owned how many slaves?
1 to 5
6 to 10
15 to 20
25 to 30
at least 35
In the South, the paternalist ethos:
reflected the hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him.
declined after the War of 1812 as southern society became more centered on market relations rather than on personal relations.
suffered because southern slaveholders lived among their slaves, so that the groups’ constant exposure to each other made southern slavery more openly violent than elsewhere.
brought southern society closer to northern ideals
encouraged southern women to become more active and better educated so that they could help their husbands in their paternal roles
Who questioned President Polk’s right to declare war by introducing a resolution to Congress requesting that the president specify the precise spot where blood had first been shed?
Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun
Stephen C. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Sumner
While the North emphasized egalitarianism, the South stressed
unions
communal living
a code of honor
competition
social mobility
Who said that the language in the Declaration of Independence—that all men were created equal and entitled to liberty—was “the most false and dangerous of all political errors”?
James Madison
James G. Birney
John C. Calhoun
Denmark Vesey
Solomon Northup
Why could William Lloyd Garrison be seen as a more radical abolitionist than Frederick Douglass?
Garrison wanted equal rights for African-Americans
Douglass wanted women to play a role in abolitionism
Douglass wanted ex-slaves to leave the United States
Douglass favored a gradual end to slavery
Garrison saw the Constitution as evil
Frederick Douglass wrote, “When the true history of the antislavery cause shall be written, __________ will occupy a large space in its pages.”
newspaper editors
black abolitionists
freed slaves
white abolitionists
women
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?
Frederick Douglass
Joseph Lane
Robert E. Lee
Henry Ward Beecher
John Brown
The American Civil War began in April 1861, when:
Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter
U.S. naval vessels bombarded the city of Wilmington, North Carolina
Confederate and Union cavalry clashed in disputed territory in Texas
General William Sherman led Union soldiers on a devastating march through Georgia
Confederate infantry attacked Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Approximately how many Union and Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War?
110,00
245,000
440,000
750,000
988,000
Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he:
did not believe slaves could be productive American citizens
owned slaves
feared losing support of slaveholding border states within Union
did not want to support the policies of the Radical Republicans
promised during his 1860 campaign that he was against abolition
During the Civil War, the term “contraband camps” referred to:
camps in which materials such as rifles and gunpowder were kept
camps of southern slaves who had escaped from their masters and entered Union lines
training grounds for the youthful musicians who played to raise the morale of the troops
holding areas for items seized by customs agents for failure to pay tariffs
places near battlefields where the Union army temporarily kept Confederate prisoners
What happened to Cherokee slaveholders after the Civil War?
They were slaughtered
They were forced to leave the United States
They were forced to give former slaves some of their land
They were forced to march to Oklahoma
They had land given to them by the federal government
Captains of industry like steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and oil man John D. Rockefeller:
began creating or consolidating their fortunes during the Civil War
benefited after the war from the respect their military service earned for them
became important advisers to President Lincoln
voluntarily provided important resources to the war effort
made millions bilking southerners who were buying war bonds
What role did slaves play with the Confederate army?
Robert E. Lee asked for slave soldiers at the beginning of the war
Slaves willingly took up arms and served for the Confederates
The Confederate government never officially recruited slaves as soldiers
Numerous slaves worked as laborers for the Confederate military
Most slaveholders wanted their slaves to serve as soldiers for the Confederacy
General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order 15:
gave freed slaves the right to find family members who had been sold
set aside the Sea Islands and forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families
gave forty acres and a mule to blacks who wished to move to the unsettled American Southwest
gave his men instructions to burn their way through the southern interior to the Atlantic coast
established the Freedmen’s Bureau to help blacks make the transition from slavery to freedom
The Book of Mormon states:
Joseph Smith was divine.
The second coming of Christ would occur in Europe.
Native Americans were descended from people from the Middle East.
Joseph Smith’s visions were untrue.
The market revolution needed more infrastructure to be successful.
Which of the following best describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of freedom?
Sensing the continued hatred of whites toward them, most blacks wished to move back to Africa
Most blacks stayed with their old masters because they were not familiar with any other opportunities
Blacks adopted different ways of testing their freedom, including moving about, seeking kin, and rejecting older forms of deferential behavior
Desiring better wages, most blacks moved to the northern cities to seek factory work
Most blacks were content working for wages and not owning their own land because they believed that they had not
The Freedmen’s Bureau:
was badly administered because director O. O. Howard lacked military experience
won much southern white support because it consistently supported the planters in disputes with former slaves
made notable achievements in improving African-American education and health care
carried out a successful program of distributing land to every former slave family
enjoyed the strong support of President Andrew Johnson in its work on behalf of civil rights
The Monroe Doctrine:
was the idea that all white men should have voting rights.
secured Florida from Spain.
declared the Americas off-limits for further European colonization.
stated that the United States would be neutral in all international conflicts
settled the nullification crisis favorably for South Carolina.
Henry Clay was charged with orchestrating a “corrupt bargain” during the 1824 election so that he could become:
president.
vice president.
secretary of state.
ambassador to England.
chief justice.
The bloodiest act of violence during Reconstruction took place in __________ in 1873, where armed whites killed hundreds of former slaves, including fifty militia members who had surrendered.
York County, South Carolina
Marietta, Georgia
Lynchburg, Virginia
Colfax, Louisiana
Guilford County, North Carolina
The key insight of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Tocqueville on Democracy was that:
the most important thing about American democracy was that the majority of men could vote.
American democracy was really a sham.
American democracy really represented an important cultural shift.
The ideology of the Whig Party was actually more democratic than that of the Democratic Party.
American democracy could not exist without strong presidential leadership.
In his Cherokee Nation v. Georgia opinion, Chief Justice John Marshall stated that:
Georgia had to respect Indian title to their lands.
Indians were wards of the federal government.
The Cherokee had to move to the Indian Territory.
President Jackson had full authority over Indian affairs.
Indians were U.S. citizens, with all attendant rights and responsibilities.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision:
supported the right of the Cherokee people to maintain a separate political identity.
approved Georgia’s plans to confiscate Cherokee land and move the people to reservations.
struck down Georgia’s anti-tariff Nullification Ordinance.
was fully supported by President Andrew Jackson.
was strongly opposed by Whigs.
The Bargain of 1877:
allowed Samuel Tilden to become president.
led to the appointment of a southerner as postmaster general.
marked a compromise between Radical and Liberal Republicans.
called for the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.
was made by Grant to prevent his impeachment over the Whiskey Ring.
The biggest failure during the Reconstruction period was:
not using legal and military means to stop the Ku Klux Klan in the South.
not allowing African Americans to serve in the House of Representatives and Senate.
not providing an amendment to protect the right to vote for black men.
that African Americans were not declared citizens.
That no help was given to African Americans to achieve land ownership in the South.
All of the following were part of Lincoln’s views on slavery EXCEPT:
he disliked how critics called the United States a nation of hypocrites because of slavery.
he felt the idea of enslaving people was an injustice.
he wanted to stop the extension of slavery.
he saw blacks as fully equal.
he wanted labor – black or white – to be free.
Ironically, (the) freed virtually no slaves at the beginning of 1863.
Exposition and Protest
The Liberator
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
Second inaugural address of Abraham Lincoln
The Civil Rights Bill of 1866:
was proposed by border-state Democrats.
provided African Americans with the right to vote.
defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race.
allowed states to determine essential citizenship standards.
won the support of President Andrew Johnson.
What did Andrew Johnson do with the land of plantation owners seized during the Civil War?
He ordered it dispersed among the ex-slaves.
He returned it to the original owners.
The federal government retained control of most of the land.
He suggested that communes be started so that all southerners had access to the land.
The first national parks were established on the seized property.
