Refers to the Southern culture of segregation that existed for almost a century after the Civil War was called:
Jim Crow
Uncle Tom
The primary focus of women's reform movements in the fifty years after the Civil War was the:
Struggle for wage equality
Suffrage
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court ruled that:
Grandfather clauses were illegal
Separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites was legal.
The term "redemption" as used in the Reconstruction era refers to:
Programs that were introduced in the period to integrate ex-slaves into Southern society as citizens
The post-Reconstruction return of the South to white rule.
President Andrew Johnson was impeached as a result of his:
Violation of the Tenure of Office Act
Veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866
The ultimate consequence of the sharecropping system for the South was:
A gradual increase in the region's overall crop yields and productivity
An increase in poverty for both blacks and whites
All of the following were major elements of the Union strategy for victory in the Civil War EXCEPT:
Impressing ex-slaves into the Union army
Preventing European powers from entering the conflict
At the outset of the war, which of the following was the greatest advantage possessed by the Confederacy:
Superior military leadership
Its influence in the border states
The Emancipation Proclamation had which of the following effects:
It freed all the slaves in the South
It prevented England and France from joining the conflict.
The faction of Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War became known as the
Know-Nothings
Copperheads
The logic and reasoning employed by Southerners in seceding from the Union borrowed heavily from the:
Declaration of Independence
Concept of popular sovereignty
The Republican Party campaign platform of 1860 called for:
The restriction of slavery from the territories
The immediate abolition of slavery
Which of the following statements best explains why the Mormons migrated west:
The lure of easy gold strikes in California probed irresistible to them
They were seeking out their own new promised land
Which of the following was NOT a result or consequence of the Dred Scott decision of 1857:
Congress had no right to restrict slavery in the territories
The Fugitive Slave Act was repealed
In the 19th century, Southerners used all of the following arguments to justify slavery EXCEPT:
Slavery provided a civilizing influence for the slave
The international slave trade was highly profitable for all regions of the country
What became the most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850:
The admission of California as a free state
The Fugitive Slave Act
Theory that individual states do not necessarily have to carry out any federal laws with which they disagree is known as:
Popular sovereignty
Nullification
A result of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852:
The Underground Railroad was formed
Abolitionism gained ground in the North
In terms of politics, the 1850s were noteworthy because they witnessed the:
Decline in the power of the free-soil movement
Dissolution of national political parties over sectional concerns
Advocated for the immediate and uncompensated release of all slaves held in the United States?
William Lloyd Garrison
Abraham Lincoln
Southern critics of slavery most often asserted that:
Slavery was immoral
The plantation economy made the South a colony of the North
As whites moved westward into Indian territories in the last half of the 19th century:
Indians were granted U.S. citizenship through the reservation system
The American Indians themselves were often blamed for the troubles that ensued
The following was NOT a cause of increased American settlement of the West after the Civil War:
They deployment of the Army in the region
Sharp increases in urban food prices
Belief that the United States had a special mission to expand over the entire North American continent was known as:
American Exceptionalism
Manifest Destiny
With regard to the Oregon Territory, in 1846, the United States:
Concluded a peace treaty with Britain which established the United States' northern border at 54°40° north latitude
Hammered out a compromise agreement with the British Empire
The Wilmot Proviso:
Encouraged slavery's expansion westward
Called for American annexation of lands conquered from Mexico as free territory
A central element in the conquest and submission of the American Indians of the West was the:
Rapid growth of cities and population on the California coast
Destruction of the buffalo herds
American interests and priorities with regard to Asia in the 1840s and 1850s primarily centered around
Trade and commerce
Seeking opportunities for colonization
The American or "Know-Nothing" Party of the 1850s:
Gave birth of the free-soil movement
Sought to limit the rights of immigrants
The following was the MOST important reason why immigrants tended to cluster in ethnic communities in urban areas during the antebellum period:
The majority of immigrants came from urban areas of Europe
It allowed immigrants to retain their languages and customs to a greater degree
