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Unit 6&7
Changes after the Civil War in USA
Question | Answer |
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1. Who was declared free by the Emancipation Proclimation? | C. All slaves living in areas still in rebellion |
2. The Emancipation Proclamation was NOT about: | A. Abolishing slavery in the north |
3. The doctrine of "popular sovereignty" said that the status of slaves in a new territory should be decided by | D. The Residents of the territory |
4. Whose plan for reconstruction reflects "with malice toward none, with charity for all to bind up the nations wounds?" | D. Abraham Lincoln |
5. Which best describes the South after the Civil War? | B. Cities and Factories were devastated and the Democratic Party gained support |
6. Who was responsible for the Seneca Falls convention? | C. Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
7. "Blending Kansas" describes | A. The Struggle between pro-slavery and anti-slavery movements as a result of power sovereignty |
8. The loss of which famous battle would eventually bring Texas into the Union? | C. The Alamo |
9. How did America gain parts of the Oregon Territory? | D. As a result of the War of 181 |
10. What Supreme Court decision overturned afforts to limit the spread of slavery and outraged abolitionist? | C. Dred Scott |
11. How did the Compromise of 1850 settle the question of slavery in the territorys the US acquired from the War with Mexico? | A. Popular Sovereignty |
12. Which election was the first to have suffrage extended to the "common man" instead of just the aristocracy? | D. Andrew Jackson in 1828 |
13. "The power to tax is the power to destroy" comes from | D. McCulloch v. Maryland |
14. The formation of political parties can be traced to the different philosophies and viewpoints of | D. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton |
15. What amendment guarenteed suffrage to freed male slaves? | D. 15th |
16. What was a result of the Compromise of 1877? | A. Reconstruction ended as Republicans agreed to end military occupation of the South |
17. Whose plan for reconstruction was the most lenient (easiest) on the South? | B. Andrew Johnson's |
18. What political party was established with the goal of stopping the expansion of slavery into the territories? | C. Free Soil |
19. The Civil War put constitutional government to its most important test in the debate over | B. Power of the federal government versus states' rights |
20. What two main cities lain in ruins after the Civil War? | A. Atlanta and Richmond |
21. Lincoln believed that secession of southern states was | C. Illegal |
22. 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. A major economic depression happened |
23. The inherent difference between Europeans monarchies and the new nations in the Western Hemisphere was | C. The Federal Reserve was established |
24. What department was in charge of foreign affairs? | C. That they were republics by nature |
25. Which of the following best characterizes the Missouri Compromise? | A. 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 |
26. Why did the US go to war with Mexico | C. Mexico refused to sell California to the US |