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Unit 6 and Unit 7
Changes after the Civil War in the U.S.
Question | Answer |
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Who was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation? | all slaves living in areas still in rebellion |
The Emancipation Proclamation was not about: | abolishing slavery in the north |
The doctrine of "popular sovereignty" said that the status of slaves in a new territory should be decided by: | the residents of the territory |
Whose plan for Reconstruction reflects "with malice toward none, with charity for all to bind up the nation's wounds?" | Abraham Lincoln |
Which best describes the South after the Civil War? | cities and factories were devastated and the Republican Party gained support |
Who was responsible for the Seneca Falls convention. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
"Bleeding Kansas" describes: | the struggle between pro-slavery and anti-slavery movements as a result of popular sovereignty |
The loss of which famous battle would eventually bring Texas into the Union? | the alamo |
How did America gain parts of the Oregon Territory? | as a result of the war of 1812 |
What Supreme Court decision overturned efforts to limit the spread of slavery and outraged abolitionists. | Dred Scott |
How did the Comprimise of 1850 settle the question of slavery in the territories the US acquired from the war with Mexico? | popular sovereignty |
Which election was the first to have suffrage extended to the "commom man" instead of just the aristocracy? | Andrew Jackson in 1828 |
"The power to tax is the power to destroy" comes from | McCulloch v. Maryland |
The formation of political parties can be traced to the different philosophies and viewpoints of | Thomas Jefferson an Alexander Hamilton |
What amendment guaranteed suffrafe to the freed male slaves? | 15th |
What was a result of the Comprimise of 1877? | Reconstruction ended as Republicans agreed to end military occupation of the south |
Whose plan for reconstruction was the most lenient (easiest) on the South? | Andrew Johnson's |
What political party was est withthe goal of stopping the expansion of slavery into the territories? | Free Soil |
The Civil War put the constitutional government to its most important test in the debate over: | power of the federal government v. states' rights |
What two main cities lain in ruins after the Civil War? | Atlanta and Richmond |
Lincoln believed that seccession of southern states was | illegal |
When the President of the United States vetoed the rechartering of the Bank of the United States in 1832, which of the following resulted? | a major economic depression happened |
The inherent difference between European monarchies and the new nations in the Western Hempisphere was | that they were republics by nature |
What dpt was in charge of foreign affairs? | state |
Which of the following best characterizes the Missouri Comprimise? | slavery was excluded to all US territories north of 36*30' while choice of freedom or slavery was given to those US territories south of this line |
Why did the US go to war with Mexico? | Mexico refused to sell California to the US |