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final exam
chapter 19-25 US History 101
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| When the compromises of 1850 finally passed it included all of the following provisions except | the exclusion of slavery from all parts of the territory acquired from Mexico |
| the main objective of the "free soil" movement was to | keep slavery out of the federal territories |
| the proposals for popular sovereignty called deciding the issue of slavery in the territories through | a popular vote by residents of each territory |
| the fugitive slave act, part of the compromise of 1850 | stipulated that all citizens were excepted to assists officials in apprehending runaways slaves |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin influences northerns' attitudes towards slavery | because it was a compelling novel and vehicle for a stirring moral indictment of slavery |
| the common thread that wove together ntohern men into the Republican Party in 1854 was their | opposition to the extension of slavery into any territory of the United States |
| The Kansas Nebraska act heightened the sectional crisis because it | repealed the Missouri compromise |
| Early in the struggle to win Kansas, provlsavery supporters | Took control by vote fraud, intimidation and violence |
| in the 1857 case of Red Scott V sanford, the Supreme Court ruled that | congress could not keep slavery out of the territories |
| in the 1857 Dred Scott decision, the U.S. Supreme court ruled that | Dred Scott could not legally claim violation of his constitutional rights because he was not a citizen of the United States. |
| Abraham Lincoln personally believed that slavery | was morally wrong |
| True or false in the debates of 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared himself to be an abolitionist and vowed to eradicate slavery if elected | false |
| as a result of the Lincoln-douglas debates | Stephen a Douglas won senate seat, but Abraham Lincoln became nationally known |
| Ultimately, John Brown's raid on Harpers ferry Virginia | Led an increasing number of southern whites to conclude that many northerns wanted to end slavery with violence |
| John Browns raid on Harpers ferry | Increased southern Fears of northern hostility |
| in 1860, democrats meeting to choose a presidential candidate in south Caroline wound up | splitting the democratic party into southern and northern factions over the issues of popular sovereignty and federal code protecting slavery in territories |
| true of false, in the election of 1860, the Republican Party proved to be a truly national party that could win states in the south as well as in the north | false |
| why did some southern states secede immediately after Lincolns election | to protect slavery |
| according to the declaration of secession, the state of Mississippi seceded | to protect slavery |
| Lincoln viewed secession as | an attack on the best government on earth and the essence of anarchy |
| When Lincoln took office he felt his primary responsibility as president was to | preserve the union |
| states in the upper south that opted for secession from the union did so because | they couldn't see themselves fighting fellow southerners and felt betrayed when Lincoln chose to use military means against the south |
| the border states of MO and KY | were slave states that did not secede from the union |
| typically, northerns viewed secession as | an attack on the best government on earth and a severe challenge to rule of law |
| southerns believed they had a real chance of winning the civil war based on | cause of character and southern people, southerns men were physically tougher, withholding cotton would wreck northern economy (all of the above) |
| true or false, to insure that Maryland stayed in the union, Lincoln set aside constitutional guarantees that protect citizens from arbitrary arrest and detention dn ordered U.S troops into Baltimore | true |
| at the outset of the civil war, the north enjoyed all of the following advantages expect | advanced industrial system, transportation system, manpower, **a president with substantial wartime experience in office** |
| fort Sumter | was a gated symbol of union control for south, beacon affirming federal authority for north, attacked by confederates April-12-1861 **all of the answers listed** |
| what was one significant outcome of the battle of Shiloh | both armies suffered the greater number of causalities up to that point in the war |
| true or false, king cotton diplomacy built on the hope that European nations starving for cotton would intervene in the war and recognize the confederacy | true |
| Abraham Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation | because he considered emancipation to be "a free military necessity, absolutely essential to the preservation of the Union" |
| when the civil war broke out, president Lincoln chose not to make the conflict a struggle over slavery because he | doubted his right under the constitution to tamper with the "domestic institutions" of any state, even those in rebellion |
| Aside from leading to the legal destruction of slavery, the civil war itself helped destroy slavery in practice | by disrupting the routine, organization and discipline necessary to keep slavery intact |
| in the video, professor James Oliver Horton points out that the emancipation proclamation | focused the war on the slave issue and the south's attempt to preserve slavery |
| African Americans viewed the civil war as | a struggle to overthrow slavery and gain racial equality. |
| Under Grant's Leadership the war shifted I favor of the north and the union armies | became a sophisticated and powerful war machine that continued to fight in the same bloody ferocious manner |
| in 1864, when General William T Sherman Staates that he intended to "make Georgia howl" he was gearing up for | a scorched-earth military campaign aimed at destroying the will of the southern people |
| president Lincolns determination to hold elections in 1864 Is particularly noteworthy because | with the inion war efforts stalled and many northerners basically wearied by the burdens of the war, the democrats had an excellent chance of ousting the Lincoln administration |
| by the waning months of the war, confederate soldiers were demoralized because | the toll of years of fighting, lack of supplies and concern for their families had became too much |
| the civil war affects the United States by | establishing the sovereignty of the federal government and the dominance of industrial capitalism |
| when Union general carl shrug undertook a fact finding mission to the ex confederate Staes in the summer of 1865, he determined that newly freed blacks would need | federal protection and voting rights |
| true or false, unrelenting racial violence convinced John reaper that blacks could never achieve equality and prosperity in the south | true |
| true or false, the freedman bureau distributed food and clothing to destitute southerners and eased the transition of black from the slaves to free persons. | true |
| during the reconstruction era, southern black codes | restricted freedman economic opportunities and civil rights |
| during the reconstruction era black freeman attempted to exercise their rights by all of the following methods expect | **advocating their colonization to Africa** organizing their own religious groups participating in politics striving to obtain an education |
| citizenship was extended to African Americans with | the fourteenth amendment |
| why did African Americans prefer sharecropping to wage labor | sharecropping freed blacks from the day-today supervisor of whites |
| which group said "Counterrevolutionary terrorists that fought to beat back free labor, democracy, and republicanism and to force the south back into its antebellum channels" | Klu Klux Klan |
| congressional reconstruction did not meet all of its goals, but amount those it did meet were | the legacy of the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments and the civil rights act of 1875 |
| the compromise of 1877 essentially | spelled the end of reconstruction and of the republicans commitment to the civil rights of blacks. |
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