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Unit2 Manifest Destiny, Civil War Beginnings

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The belief the United States had the right and duty to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean was known as:

a)

Mexican American War

b)

Secession

c)

Manifest Destiny

d)

Kansas Nebraska Act

2.

Which of these was the largest and most constant issue facing the U.S. during the era of Manifest Destiny?

a)

Land Ownership

b)

Farm Acreage

c)

Slavery

d)

Representation in Government

3.

Who was the President that was responsible for the increasing demand in the idea of Manifest Destiny?

a)

Andrew Jackson

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

James Polk

d)

James Monroe

4.

War between 2 countries that resulted in the annexation (addition) of the territory that included Arizona, New Mexico, & California. During the war, Congress debated whether slavery should be allowed in the new territory. The Wilmot Proviso – the attempt by northern congressmen to outlaw slavery in the Mexican Cession.

a)

Kansas Nebraska Act

b)

French and Indian War

c)

Mexican American War

d)

Civil War

5.

Caring only about the interests of your state or region instead of the entire nation.

a)

Nationalism

b)

Patriotism

c)

Sectionalism

d)

Heroism

6.

This word means "Before the War"

a)

Postbellum

b)

Anti- War

c)

Antebellum

d)

Secession

7.

Select all of the statements that define the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

a)

Missouri would be admitted as a slave state

b)

Maine would be created as a free state.

c)

Mexico was considered a part of American territory

d)

All future states above the 36⁰30’ line would be free, and all future below would be slave.

8.

Select the correct statements that describe the Compromise of 1850.

a)

California would join the Union as a free state.

b)

New Mexico would decide for themselves if they would allow slavery.

c)

A stronger fugitive slave law would be enforced.

d)

The slave trade would be outlawed in Washington D.C.

9.

A Supreme Court decision that stated no African American could be a US citizen. It also stated that slavery could not be prohibited anywhere.

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Dred Scott Case

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Marbury v. Madison

10.

The law that organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and established popular sovereignty.

a)

Mexican American War

b)

Kansas Nebraska Act

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Bleeding Kansas

11.

A law that required northerners to help return runaway slaves to their owners.

a)

Popular Sovereignty

b)

Sectionalism

c)

Fugitive Slave Act

d)

Nationalism

12.

The name given to the violence that broke out in Kansas after the failure of popular sovereignty.

a)

Kansas Nebraska Act

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Shays' Rebellion

d)

Bleeding Kansas

13.

Elected President in 1860. His main goal was to preserve the Union after southern states seceded.

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Alexander Hamilton

d)

Andrew Jackson

14.
Which word means to leave or become unassociated with?
a)
Secede
b)
Ironclad
c)
Border State
d)
Casualty
15.

The name given to the North

a)

Confederacy

b)

Rebels

c)

Union

d)

Revolutionaries

16.

Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all of the slaves in America?

a)

Yes

b)

No

17.

The name given to the South

a)

Confederacy

b)

Rebels

c)

Union

d)

Revolutionaries

18.

The Dred Scott case determined that slaves

a)

could sue for their freedom with enough proof.

b)

would be freed if they lived in the Northern states.

c)

were property and could not bring a case before the court.

d)

could travel freely with their master's permission.

19.
Which of the following words means that a person places the interests of a small area over the interests of the entire country?
a)
Nationalism
b)
Sectionalism
c)
Popular Sovereignty
d)
Secession
20.
The Compromise of 1850...
a)
allowed California to enter as a free state.
b)
ended the Fugitive Slave law.
c)
gave all of the land taken from Mexico to Texas.
d)
banned slaver in Washington D.C.
21.

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became a free or a slave state?

a)

popular sovereignty

b)

the 36'30" parallel

c)

one would be a slave state, the other a free state

d)

Rock, Paper, Scissors

22.
After the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency, the Southern states debated the question of __, or withdrawing from the Union.
a)
secession
b)
populous
c)
slavery
d)
federalist
23.
Who was the abolitionist who raided the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia and further heightened sectionalism by adding to the slave owner's fear of a revolt?
a)
John Brown
b)
Dred Scott
c)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
d)
Andrew Jackson
24.

Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" dealt with

a)

his idea for instituting an income tax.

b)

how to draft more men into the Union Army.

c)

re-admitting Southern states into the Union.

d)

his quest to reconquer only 10% of the South

25.

This system of agriculture developed in the late 19th century, in which a landowner allowed a tenant to use the land in return for a portion of what was produced. It was called

a)

slash and burn farming

b)

share cropping

c)

rent farming

d)

farm to fork farming

26.

The purpose of the Freedman's Bureau was to

a)

provide 40 acres and a mule for each slave.

b)

gain the vote for millions of former slaves.

c)

provide work, education, and relief for former slaves.

d)

get radical Republicans in positions of power in the South.

27.

Racial tensions continued in Georgia, even after African Americans were granted citizenship by the Fourteenth Amendment. This was evidenced by their removal from the Georgia General Assembly in 1868. What did it take for this removal to finally be reversed, allowing black citizens to serve in the Georgia Assembly again?

a)

The U.S. Congress penalized white Georgia Assembly members through heavy taxation

b)

White Assembly members had to be physically removed and placed in jail for a year.

c)

Black leaders led protests near the U.S. Congress meetings, demanding federal help.

d)

The U.S. Congress had to pass an act, and sent in military support to help maintain order

28.

The period of rebuilding of The South after The Civil War was known as

a)

The Renaissance

b)

Reconstruction

c)

The Guilded Age

d)

The Industrial Revolution

29.

Which is the BEST description of the southern economy during Reconstruction?

a)

The southern economy was stabilized because of trade relationships with Great Britain and France.

b)

The southern economy was still based on agriculture and cotton, but now depended on sharecropping rather than slave labor

c)

The southern economy was transformed from being based on agriculture to being completely dependent on industry and manufacturing.

d)

The southern economy was completely restored by 1866 and was actually more productive and profitable than the pre- Civil War economy.

30.

Which Amendment gave United States citizens of all races the right to vote?

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

5th

31.
Southern states created the Black Codes to do what?
a)
limit African Americans rights
b)
expand Confederate rights
c)
give women voting rights
d)
jail Carpetbaggers
32.
The Ku Klux Klan was a group that believed...
a)
in white supremacy
b)
in equality for all
c)
in black supremacy
d)
in southern supremacy
33.
Abraham Lincoln believed...
a)
African Americans needed Constitutional Amendments to guarantee voting rights
b)
in the southern cause
c)
southern states should have to prove their loyalty after the war
d)
preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the south
34.
The Presidential Election of 1876 resulted in...
a)
military supervision of the south
b)
the restoration of voting rights for white southerners
c)
the end of Reconstruction in the south
d)
equal rights for African Americans