Exam 3

Question 1

The Ostend Manifesto was motivated by the desire of

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remove Spain from her last colony in the Western Hemisphere.

Question 2

Osawatomie,Pottawatomie and Lecompton are related to the history of the

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Kansas Territory.

Question 3

In which one of the following is the series of crisis leading to the Civil War arranged in correct chronological order?

a) Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision, John Brown’s Raid.
b) Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown’s Raid, Dred Scott Decision,Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
c) Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, John Brown’s Raid.
d) Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Dred Scott Decision, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown’s Raid.

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c) Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, John Brown’s Raid.

Question 4

Manifest Destiny was the belief that

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the territorial expansion of the United States was inevitable divinely ordained, and just.

Question 5

Most of the immigrants to the United States between 1830-1860 came from

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Western and Northern Europe.

Question 6

At the beginning of the Civil War the advantages of the South included all except

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a well-developed industrial base.

Question 7

Who was a Unionist Democrat placed on the Lincoln ticket to assure victory in 1864?

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Andrew Johnson

Question 8

The early struggle of the Civil War in the East focused on the Capture of _____, the Confederacy’s capital and one of the South’s most important railroad, industrial and munitions Centers.

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Richmond

Question 9

On July 3, 1863, General Robert E. Lee sent about 13,000 men in a gallant but futile assault, known as _____, against the Union center at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Pickett’s Charge

Question 10

The concept of “total war” had its most enthusiastic exponent in

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William T. Sherman.

Question 11

Lincoln was successful in using both diplomacy and force for retaining the loyalty to the Union of several key border states, including

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Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland.

Question 12

As a result of Nat Turner’s rebellion in 1831, southern whites

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freed large numbers of slaves and imposed even greater controls on the slave population.

Question 13

In July 1863, the 54th Massachusetts regiment formed of _____ under the leadership of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw participated

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African-Americans

Question 14

Sherman’s “March to the Sea” was designed to

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destroy the South’s capacity to keep fighting.

Question 15

He was selected by Lincoln to train the new three-year volunteer army for the Union after its defeat at Bull Run; he ran against Lincoln for President in 1864.

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George B. McClellan

Question 16

In the summer of 1862 the cruiser _____, supplied to the Confederacy by_____, sank or captured more than one hundred Union merchant ships.

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Alabama; England

Question 17

The battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac

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demonstrated the superiority of ironclads

Question 18

In 1863, _____ won control of the Mississippi River for the Union and split the Confederacy in two in the Battle of _____

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General Grant; Vicksburg

Question 19

In the 1850s, filibusters

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organized unofficial military expeditions to Cuba and Central America.

Question 20

The _____, which the United States acquired from Mexico for a possible railroad route to California, consisted of 30,000 square miles south of the Gila River.

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Gadsden Purchase

Question 21

In 1855 _____ led a group of sixty Americans in an invasion of Nicaragua, installed himself as dictator, and began to envision a new nation that would include Central America and Cuba.

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William Walker

Question 22

Taking personal offense at remarks made by Senator _____ of Massachusetts about his uncle, the South Carolina congressman _____ beat the Senator unconscious in the Senate and was hailed as a hero in his home state.

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Sumner; Brooks

Question 23

In February 1861, the Confederate States of America met at Montgomery, Alabama, and named _____ as president and _____ as vice president.

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Jefferson Davis; Alexander Stephens

Question 24

The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a Union garrison at _____, South Carolina.

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Fort Sumter

Question 25

The first state to secede after Lincoln’s election was

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South Carolina

Question 26

In July 1863 ferocious anti-draft rioting broke out among immigrant _____workers in New York City.

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Irish

Question 27

To complete the process of emancipation and prevent southern states from re-establishing slavery after the war, the _____ prohibited slavery altogether in the United States.

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Thirteenth Amendment

Question 28

The American Civil War was fought to

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preserve the Union.

Question 29

When President Lincoln met __________ in 1863, he is reported to have said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 30

To secure Maryland for the Union, Lincoln

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arrested and detained southern sympathizers.

Question 31

Southerners thought that European nations would recognize and support the Confederacy because of the Europeans’

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dependence upon southern cotton.

Question 32

At the Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861

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Union troops panicked during a Confederate counterattack and retreated to Washington.

Question 33

When the first states seceded from the Union, the president of the U.S. was

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Abraham Lincoln.

Question 34

Women in the Civil War

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usually were in important supportive roles behind the lines.

Question 35

The Emancipation Proclamation

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freed slaves only in areas in rebellion against the United States but not in areas that remained loyal.

Question 36

In the election of 1864, Lincoln:

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was swept to victory by Sherman’s victory at Atlanta.

Question 37

The material assets of the North during the Civil War:

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became effective only in the long run.

Question 38

The “Anaconda” Plan was

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Union General Winfield Scott’s strategy of slowly but surely squeezing the South to death.

Question 39

In the Dred Scott ruling the Supreme Court declared all of the following except that

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territorial governments could decide whether an area should allow slavery.

Question 40

The counties of western Virginia separated from that state and set up their own state because

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economic and social differences existed between western Virginians and the large landholders and slave-owners in the eastern region.

Question 41

The American party of the mid-1850s (the Know-Nothings) drew its primary support from those who feared

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immigration.

Question 42

Senator John J. Crittenden’s attempts at compromise failed Because

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Lincoln refused to compromise on the extension of slavery into the territories.

Question 43

When southern leaders threatened secession after Lincoln was Elected president, Lincoln and other prominent Republicans believed that the southern leaders

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were bluffing.

Question 44

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided for

a) the annexation of California and New Mexico by the United States.
b) the payment of $15 million to Mexico.
c) the Rio Grande as the southern boundary of Texas.
d) all of the above.

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all of the above.

Question 45

Which is the correct time sequence of presidents?

a) Pierce, Fillmore, Buchanan, Lincoln
b) Pierce, Buchanan, Fillmore, Lincoln
c) Fillmore, Buchanan, Pierce, Lincoln
d) Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln

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d) Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln

Question 46

“He was probably the best general the Confederacy had….Daring, bold, and tactically aggressive, he enjoyed combat, pushed his troops to the maximum and was well liked….” This quotation best describes

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Robert E. Lee.

Question 47

Which is the correct time sequence of battles in the Civil War?

a) Atlanta, Antietam, Vicksburg, Bull Run
b) Antietam, Atlanta, Bull Run, Vicksburg
c) Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Atlanta
d) Bull Run, Vicksburg, Antietam, Atlanta

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c) Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Atlanta

Question 48

In the Trent Affair

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a Union warship stopped a British ship on the high seas and seized two Confederate officials.

Question 49

The term Copperhead

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was applied to northern opponents of the war by Republicans.

Question 50

At Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, Grant

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let Lee’s enlisted men take their horses home for spring planting.