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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 rebillion. |
| 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 relfects "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 Senca Falls convection? | 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 outrages abolitionists? | Dred Scott. |
| How did the Compromise of 1850 settle the question of slavery in the territories the US acquire from the War with Mexico? | Popular sovereignty. |
| Which election was the first to have suffrage extended to the "common man" instead of just the sristocracy? | 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 veiwpoints of... | Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. |
| What amendment guaranteed suffrage to freed male slaves? | 15th. |
| What was a result of compromise of 1877? | Reconstruction ended as the Republicans agreed to end military occupation in the south. |
| Whose plan for reconstruction was the most lenient on the South? | Andrew Jackson's. |
| What political party was established witht he goal of stopping the expansion of slavery into the territories? | Free Soil. |
| The Civil War put constitutional government to its most important test in the debate over... | Power of the federal government versus states' rights. |
| What two main cities lain in ruins after the Civil War? | Atlanta and Richmond. |
| Lincoln belived 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 nations in the Western Hemisphere was... | That they were repuclicans by nature. |
| What department was in charge of foreign affairs? | State. |
| Which of the following best characterizes the Missouri Compromise? | Slavery was excluded to all Us territories north of 36*30' while choise of freedom or slavery was given to those US territories south of this line. |
| Why did the US go the war with Mexico? | Mexico refused to sell California to the US. |