Check Your Understanding- Period 5

Question 1

Hinton R. Helper’s the impending crisis of the south

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was banned and burned throughout the south

Question 2

The border ruffians were

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proslavery missourians who rushed into kansas to vote illegally and battle anti slavery forces there

Question 3

As presented to congress, the Lecompton constitution provided for

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the admission of kansas as a slave state

Question 4

All of the following were true of the dred scott case except

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that the missouri compromise banning slavery north of the 36 30 was repealed

Question 5

The panic of 1857

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was caused in part by CA gold pouring and inflating the currency

Question 6

Opposition to the homestead act of 1860 included all of the following except

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free spoilers who feared the legislation would top the political balance against the south

Question 7

The political career of Abraham Lincoln could be described as

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largely a failure until his meteoric rise in after 1854

Question 8

Despite Abe Lincoln’s impressive and persuasive seven performances in the lincoln-douglas senate debates in 1858

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senator douglas defeated Lincoln

Question 9

Stephen A. Douglas argued in the freeport doctrine, during the debates that

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slavery would remain illegal if the people of a territory voted it down regardless of the supreme courts contrary decision in the dread scott case

Question 10

The reaction of most northerners to John Brown was to

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condemn the raid on Harper’s ferry but mourn Brown as a martyr after his execution

Question 11

At the democratic convention of 1860, Senator Stephen Douglas

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could not muster the necessary 2/3 vote so the entire body dissolved

Question 12

Lincoln stated that he believed the black race was

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inferior but entitled to the same natural rights as white people

Question 13

Besides the border states that retained slavery, the region of the North where an antislavery civil war was most unpopular was the

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butternut region of southern ohio, indiana, and illinois

Question 14

As the Civil War began, the South seemed to have the advantage of

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more talented military leaders

Question 15

The North’s greatest strength in the Civil War was its

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economy, particularly its greater manufacturing capacity and more efficient and extensive railroad network.

Question 16

Fatal weaknesses of the Confederate government included all of the following except

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the governor of Georgia seceded from the secession and fought both sides.

Question 17

During the Civil War, President Lincoln

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suspended the precious privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, so that anti-Unionists might be summarily arrested.

Question 18

To fill the Union army’s demand for troops, the North relied, prior to 1863, mainly on

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volunteers

Question 19

The Union’s establishment of the National Banking System

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was the first significant step toward a unified banking network since 1836.

Question 20

Women made particular advances during the Civil War by

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entering industrial employment and providing medical aid for soldiers on both sides.

Question 21

Possessing ________ percent of the national wealth in 1860, the South claimed only ________ percent of the national wealth in 1870.

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30, 12

Question 22

The black soldiers’ brave and valuable service in the Union Army

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strengthened their case for full citizenship after the Civil War.

Question 23

After his victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, General Ulysses Grant became identified with the Union policy of

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unconditional surrender

Question 24

All of the following were true of Sherman’s march except

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it had relatively little significance either militarily or politically.

Question 25

The Copperheads were

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Northern Democrats who opposed the Union war effort

Question 26

Lincoln’s victory in the Election of 1864 was

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in doubt until the great Union victories in the Battles of Atlanta and Mobile Bay

Question 27

Lincoln named Andrew Johnson as his vice presidential running mate in 1864 because

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Johnson was a War Democrat and Union loyalist from the South.

Question 28

The two final, extremely bloody battles in which Grant frontally assaulted Lee’s forces were

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the Wilderness and Cold Harbor.

Question 29

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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was a substantial political calamity for the South.

Question 30

The supreme test of American democracy in the nineteenth century was

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the Civil War.

Question 31

The Fourteenth Amendment provided for

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full citizenship and civil rights for former slaves.

Question 32

In contrast to radical Republicans, moderate Republicans generally favored

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states’ rights and opposed direct federal involvement in individuals’ lives.

Question 33

Southern strategy for dealing with Reconstruction was carried through by a group known as

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Redeemers

Question 34

All of the following were true of radical regimes’ rule in the Reconstruction South except

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none of their reforms were retained by the all-white Redeemer governments that later returned to power.

Question 35

All of the following were true of black politicians during Reconstruction except

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no blacks served in local government offices such as mayor, magistrate, sheriff, or justice of the peace.

Question 36

The primary purpose of the Ku Klux Klan was to

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suppress African-American political power.

Question 37

The radical Republican law that laid the basis for Andrew Johnson’s impeachment declared that

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the pardons of Confederate traitors were illegal and invalid.

Question 38

The skeptical public finally accepted Seward’s purchase of Alaska because

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Russia had been the only great power friendly to the Union during the Civil War.

Question 39

Reconstruction might have been more successful if

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Thaddeus Stevens’s radical program of drastic economic reforms and stronger protection of political rights had been enacted.