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Worksheet time: 38mins
How did the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act contribute to the later outbreak of the Civil War?
It allowed enslaved persons in Kansas to buy their freedom.
It encouraged abolitionists by halting the spread of slavery into Kansas and New Mexico.
It emancipated all slaves living in Kansas and Nebraska, causing resentment in the South.
It reopened the question of whether slavery would be permitted in some Northern territories.
"The Union was originally a compact of states, and any state had the right to leave it. The “War between the States” was simply caused by the aggressiveness of the North. Northerners imposed their views of what the Union meant on the South." Who would hold this point of view?
Lincoln
An abolitionist
A Western farmer
A Southern Slave Owner
Answer the question based upon the diagram:
Prohibited Slavery in Kansas
Opposed by Senator Stephen Douglas
Overturned the Missouri Compromise
Supported by the new Republican Party
"Mr. President, I hold in my hand a series of resolutions which I desire to submit to the consideration of this body. Taken together, they propose an amicable arrangement of all questions in controversy between the free and slave states, growing out of the subject of slavery….Therefore, 1st Resolved, that California with suitable boundaries, ought, upon her application to be admitted as one of the States of this Union…2d Resolved, that as slavery does not exist by law, and is not likely to be introduced into any of the territory acquired by the United States from the Republic of Mexico, it is inexpedient for Congress to provide by law, either for its introduction into or exclusion from any part of said territory…7th Resolved, that more effectual provision ought to be made by law … for the restitution and delivery of persons bound to service or labor in any State who may escape into any other State or Territory in the Union."
Which legislation did Henry Clay introduce in this speech?
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise Tarrif of 1833
Which title best completes the attached diagram
Causes of the Civil War
The Nullification Crisis
Key Events of the Civil War
Effects of the Civil War
What name was given to those Northerners who came South during the Reconstruction era, often to help the freedmen or to find new economic opportunities?
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Imperialists
Nationalists
How did Southern states circumvent the 15th amendment?
Debt Peonage
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clause
Disallowing land ownership for African-Americans
Made former slaves pay for their emancipation
No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges … of citizens … nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…
What was the primary purpose behind the provisions in this excerpt?
Woman's Suffrage
To protect the rights of Native Americans in the West
To establish reservations for Native Americans
To limit the ability of state governments to restrict individual rights
Read the attached diagram and answer below:
A
B
C
D
Former plantation owners lacked workers.
Freed slaves lacked land, livestock, tools and money.
Which system developed in the Reconstruction era to resolve these problems?
Southern landowners sold former plantations to Northern investors.
Freedmen migrated to the North to obtain free land, livestock, and tools.
Southern banks made loans to freedmen who bought land from their former masters
Freedmen often became sharecroppers or tenant farmers on the properties of their former masters.
Which of these is an example of a Jim Crow law?
Fugitive Slave Act
People of different races cannot be permitted to use the same public facilities
African Americans cannot travel from their own towns to other places without a special pass.
People whose grandfathers were able to vote are also automatically entitled to vote.
Which federal law gave Native Americans the right to sell their share of reservation lands in order to assimilate into “mainstream” American society?
Dawes Act
Indian Repatriation Act
Indian Reorganization Act
Morrill Act
Use the attached diagram to answer the question:
Warfare brings on new inventions
Innovations Stimulate Economic Growth
Government Subsidies Encourage Inventors
Foreign Competition Threatens Prosperity
Use the attachement to answer the question:
Bull Moose Party
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Populist Party
This image represents:
(Two Correct Answers)
Debt Peonage
Circumvention of the 15th Amendment
Sharecropping
Circumvention of the 14th Amendment
"Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their [the wealthy classes'] demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
In this 1896 speech, William Jennings Bryan is advocating
government subsidies to farmers
free and unlimited coinage of silver
passage of higher protective tariffs
restriction on "new" immigrants
Use the attachment to answer the question
Interstate Commerce Act
Homestead Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
What contribution did Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) make to the American economy?
The Internet
The Telegraph
The Steam Engine
The Telephone
What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?
To displace Native Americans and reduce the buying power of farmers
To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation.
Which quote would most likely be spoken by a nativist?
"America-first in war and peace."
"Go West, young man."
"We will fight for states' rights."
"Help Wanted - Irish need not apply."
According to the cartoon, what happened to the US immigration policies?
changed from openness to restrictive.
encouraged the entrance of radical political groups.
favored highly skilled workers.
stimulated cultural diversity.
What is the attitude towards immigration in this political cartoon?
positive; it is a holy endeavor to allow religious minorities into the US
positive; allowing immigrants to escape military service is the right thing to do
negative; European immigrants will bring their garbage lifestyles with them to the US
negative; immigrants are infesting the US and destroying our culture
Which argument would a critic of big business most likely have raised during the Second Industrial Revolution?
Big businesses mistreat workers and consumers because they hold too much power.
All laissez-faire government policies should be abolished
the philanthropy of big business compensates for the abuses of power derived from monopolies
Big businesses are less likely to adopt new technologies than small businesses.
Use the attachment to answer the question
Not enough families took advantage of the Homestead Act
The transcontinental railroad resulted in more farmers moving west
New jobs in industry attracted farmers and farm laborers to cities.
A The Great Plains Indians left their reservations to buy new farmland.
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17th Amendment
How did the reforms listed above impact America?
The excerpt below is from Samuel Gompers’ testimony before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor in 1883.
"I maintain that the hours of labor ought to be reduced. From every standpoint the hours are too long in modern industries, more especially where the individual worker is but a part of the machine and is compelled to keep in motion in accordance with the velocity with which the machine turns."
What does this testimony demonstrate?
the desire of labor leaders to achieve a shorter workday for all workers
a lack of concern by some labor leaders for the conditions of unskilled labor
the belief that modern industry cannot succeed unless employees work long hours
the competition between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor
