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Unit 6-7
changes after the civil war
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 theat 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 responisble 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 part 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 outrages abolitionists? | Dred Scott |
| How did the Compromise of 1850 settle the question of slavery in the territories the U.S. acquired from the war with Mexico? | popular sovereignty |
| Which election was the first to have sufferage extended to the "common man" instead of just the aristocracy? | Andrew Jackson in 1828 |
| "the power to tax is the power to destroy" comes from? | McCullough v. Maryland |
| The formation of political parties can be traced to the different philosophies and viewpoints of? | Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton |
| What amendment guaranteed sufferage to freed male slaves? | 15th |
| What was a result of the Compromise 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 established with the goal of stopping the expansion of slavery into the territories? | Free Soil |
| The Civil war put constitutional gov't to its most important test in the debate over: | power of the federal gov't versus states' rights |
| What two main cities lain in ruins after the Civil War? | Atlanta and richmond |
| Lincoln believed that secession of the 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 nationns in the Western Hemisphere was | that they were republics by nature |
| What department was in charge of foreign affairs? | State |
| Which of the following best characterizes the Missouri Compromise? | salvery was excluded to all us territories north of the 36*30' while choice of freedom or slavery was given to those US territoroes south of this line |
| Why did the Us go to war with Mexico? | Mexico refused to sell California |