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U.S. History Quiz on U.S. History Exam 2, created by Josh Schriever on 15/10/2016.
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Question 1

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What were the dominant themes right after the Revolutionary War?
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  • Federal vs. states' rights
  • Sectionalism - northern vs. southern
  • Westward expansion
  • Relocating the Natives

Question 2

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Which made a stronger federal government?
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  • The Articles of Confederation
  • The Constitution

Question 3

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Which came first?
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  • The Articles of Confederation
  • The Constitution

Question 4

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The Articles of Confederation was effective
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  • True
  • False

Question 5

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The Constitution [blank_start]replaced[blank_end] The Articles of Confederation
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  • replaced
  • revised

Question 6

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The Great Compromise (in the Constitution) established
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  • A Bicameral body (two houses of congress)
  • The 3 branches of government
  • Election via the electoral college

Question 7

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The Great Compromise (in the Constitution) established that the number of representatives each state got in the House was [blank_start]proportional to the state's population[blank_end], and the number of senators each state got in the Senate was [blank_start]two[blank_end].
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  • proportional to the state's population
  • two

Question 8

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The three-fifths compromise
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  • Natives counted as three-fifths of a person for a state's population
  • Slaves counted as three-fifths of a person for a state's population
  • Natives had a right to keep three-fifths of their land

Question 9

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The Constitution was mostly written by
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  • James Madison
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Adams
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Bugs Bunny

Question 10

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The "necessary and proper clause" of the Constitution
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  • Allowed the federal government some wiggle room to assume powers not specifically given to it
  • Made slavery legal only where it was necessary for the economy
  • Gave the president the ability to use executive orders when necessary

Question 11

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Why didn't Anti-Federalists like the Constitution?
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  • It didn't include a bill of rights
  • It gave a lot more power to the central government
  • It gave a lot more power to the state governments
  • They thought it would lead to more taxation without representation

Question 12

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The Bill of Rights added which of these to the Constitution?
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  • Freedom of speech and press
  • Freedom of religion
  • The right of 'Mericans to bear arms
  • The right to trial by jury
  • The right of land-owning male citizens to vote
  • The right to be an idiot

Question 13

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The first two-party system (which came about after George Washington) was
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  • Democratic Party and Republican Party
  • Democratic Party and Whig Party
  • Federalist Party and Anti-Federalist Party
  • Federalist Party and Republican Party

Question 14

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[blank_start]Broad[blank_end] constructionism said the federal government could do anything not prohibited by the Constitution, and [blank_start]strict[blank_end] constructionism said the federal government could only do what was necessary to carry out its specific responsibilities.
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  • Broad
  • strict

Question 15

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Alexander Hamilton
Answer
  • Was a broad constructionist
  • Was a strict constructionist
  • Supported industrialization
  • Played a major role in establishing the national bank
  • Supported the agrarian dream
  • Was a Republican
  • Was a Federalist

Question 16

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Thomas Jefferson
Answer
  • Was a broad constructionist
  • Was a strict constructionist
  • Supported industrialization
  • Supported the agrarian dream
  • Played a major role in establishing the national bank
  • Was a Federalist
  • Was a Republican

Question 17

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Not long after the Revolutionary War, Britain started
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  • Impressing captured American sailors into the British navy
  • Holding on to their forts west of the colonies
  • Taking American slaves back to Britain with them
  • Supporting Mexico against the U.S.
  • Encouraging Canadian raids into New York

Question 18

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After the revolution, who negotiated a treaty with Britain to stop them from impressing American sailors, and convince them to abandon their forts west of the colonies?
Answer
  • John Adams
  • John Jay
  • John Hancock
  • John Paul Jones
  • Prince John the phony king of England

Question 19

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The second president was
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  • John Adams
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison

Question 20

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The third president was
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  • John Adams
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • James Madison
  • Andrew Jackson

Question 21

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Which president had good relations with France?
Answer
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Adams

Question 22

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Which president had good relations with Britain?
Answer
  • John Adams
  • Thomas Jefferson

Question 23

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When relations with France were not good, the French delegates "X, Y, and Z" did what?
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  • Refused to negotiate unless a $250,000 bribe was paid
  • Refused to sell the Louisiana Territory
  • Publicly mocked John Adams

Question 24

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The Alien and Sedition acts did what?
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  • Extended the term a foreigner had to live in the U.S. before they could get citizenship
  • Authorized deporting illegal immigrants
  • Authorized imprisonment or fines for conspiracy
  • Temporarily barred immigrants from Britain
  • Prevented immigrants from working high-skill jobs

Question 25

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Who supported an embargo against trading with Britain not long before the war of 1812?
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  • Thomas Jefferson
  • John Adams
  • James Madison
  • Andrew Jackson

Question 26

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Who was the winning general of the Battle of New Orleans and later became president?
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  • Andrew Jackson
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Batman
  • John Paul Jones
  • James Monroe

Question 27

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Jefferson was generally a [blank_start]strict[blank_end] constructionist, but using federal funds for Lewis and Clark's exploration made him look more like a [blank_start]broad[blank_end] constructionist.
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  • strict
  • broad

Question 28

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The Monroe Doctrine
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  • Said America and Europe should not interfere in each other's hemispheres
  • Promised Native Americans land further west, and started relocating them
  • Sent a message to Mexico not to interfere with Texas gaining its independence

Question 29

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One change that led to the industrial revolution: [blank_start]cash[blank_end] started to be used more instead of [blank_start]credit/debt ledgers[blank_end]
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  • cash
  • credit/debt ledgers

Question 30

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Immigrants were a source of cheap, unskilled, labor
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  • True
  • False

Question 31

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Changes leading to the industrial revolution included
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  • A market economy
  • Nationalism
  • Immigrants
  • Technological innovation
  • Credit was more available
  • Limited liability laws
  • Urbanization
  • Slave labor
  • Increased trade with Canada and Mexico
  • Batmobiles were in higher demand

Question 32

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The Declaration of Sentiments
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  • Was modeled on the Declaration of Independence
  • Was modeled on the Bill of Rights
  • Was written by women demanding their rights
  • Was written by women showing how sentimental and emotional they were
  • Included a list of grievances
  • Included proposed solutions to problems
  • Was issued at the Seneca Falls Conference
  • Was issued at an 1848 temperance conference

Question 33

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Who invented the steamboat?
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  • Robert Fulton
  • Robert Hudson
  • Samuel de Champlain

Question 34

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Who invented the telegraph?
Answer
  • Samual Morse
  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Samual Smiles
  • Eli Whitney
  • A flamenco dancer

Question 35

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The [blank_start]North[blank_end] had more railroads
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  • North
  • South

Question 36

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Reasons for increased economic stratification
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  • Railroad and factory owners accumulated unprecedented wealth
  • Urbanization increased rapidly
  • Poor, especially immigrants, lived in slums
  • Plantation owners accumulated unprecedented wealth
  • The middle class decreased rapidly

Question 37

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The second two-party system (which developed during westward expansion in the 1800s)
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  • Democratic Party and Republican Party
  • Democratic Party and Whig Party
  • Federalist Party and Whig Party
  • Federalist Party and Republican Party

Question 38

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The Democratic Party was led by
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  • Andrew Jackson
  • Henry Clay
  • James Monroe
  • Millard Filmore

Question 39

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Andrew Jackson
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  • Came from a rich background
  • Did not come from money
  • Was popular among the poor
  • Was popular among Native Americans
  • Was popular among rich aristocrats

Question 40

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The Whig Party was led by
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  • Henry Clay
  • Andrew Jackson
  • James Buchanan
  • The crazy man in the pink wig

Question 41

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The government was not actively involved in westward expansion
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 42

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Don't never use none of those nonsensical triple negatives
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 43

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The West was settled because of
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  • Opportunity
  • Ambition
  • Immigration

Question 44

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The West was won by
Answer
  • Annexation
  • War
  • Purchase
  • Reverse Polish Notation

Question 45

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When Texas was annexed by the U.S...
Answer
  • It was peaceful
  • Most people there were Americans
  • Most people there were Mexicans
  • It immediately started war

Question 46

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The Treaty of [blank_start]Guadalupe Hidalgo[blank_end] ended the war with Mexico and established the Rio Grande as the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Later, the [blank_start]Gadsden[blank_end] purchase added southern Arizona and completed the continental United States.
Answer
  • Guadalupe Hidalgo
  • Gadsden

Question 47

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Andrew Jackson supported moving the Native Americans further west
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 48

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The Trail of Tears
Answer
  • Started under Andrew Jackson
  • Started under Martin Van Buren
  • Escorted Natives from Georgia to west of Arkansas
  • Escorted Natives from Alabama to west of Arizona
  • Thousands of Native Americans died on it

Question 49

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[blank_start]The Supreme Court[blank_end] recognized the Cherokees' right to their land, but [blank_start]Andrew Jackson[blank_end] ordered the military to escort them on the Trail of Tears.
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  • The Supreme Court
  • Andrew Jackson

Question 50

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Industrialization caused [blank_start]a decrease[blank_end] in the integration of buildings into the natural environment.
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  • a decrease
  • an increase

Question 51

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During industrialization: The South: [blank_start]Agrarian[blank_end] The Northeast: [blank_start]Industrial[blank_end] The Midwest: [blank_start]Mixed[blank_end]
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  • Agrarian
  • Industrial
  • Mixed

Question 52

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In the 19th century, the role of women
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  • Expanded
  • Decreased

Question 53

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In the 19th century, the [blank_start]cult of domesticity[blank_end] replaced the [blank_start]doctrine of coverture[blank_end]
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  • cult of domesticity
  • doctrine of coverture

Question 54

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In the 19th century
Answer
  • Women were idealized and charged with keeping the family pure
  • Children were treated as children, not small adults
  • Children were treated as small adults
  • Many women worked in factories and were exposed to unsavory elements

Question 55

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Some single women found jobs
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  • as teachers
  • in textile factories, such as Lowell Mills
  • as cleaners
  • as sales clerks

Question 56

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Many married middle-class women
Answer
  • Spread Christian reform
  • Felt a responsibility to keep America on a morally true course
  • Found jobs in factories
  • Became small land-owners

Question 57

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The Second Great Awakening
Answer
  • Was led by Charles Finney
  • Was led by Jonathan Edwards
  • Appealed to individuals to be the best Christians they could be
  • Appealed to emotion
  • Appealed to preachers to be responsible for the salvation of their whole congregation

Question 58

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In workingmen societies, workers started to identify with [blank_start]other workers[blank_end] instead of with [blank_start]the owners[blank_end].
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  • other workers
  • the owners

Question 59

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Workingmen societies tried to maintain the status quo in the workplace.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 60

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The temperance movement
Answer
  • Was connected to the Second Great Awakening
  • Sought to abolish the production and consumption of alcohol
  • Was connected to the abolition movement

Question 61

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19th century reform movements included
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  • Temperance
  • Abolition
  • Women's rights
  • Health and sanitation
  • The Second Great Awakening
  • Workplace reform
  • Public education
  • Prison and mental health
  • Trade regulation
  • Environmental regulation

Question 62

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The common school movement was started by
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  • Horace Mann
  • Robert Frost
  • Batman
  • Noah Webster

Question 63

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Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Answer
  • Were born in the South
  • Were born in the North
  • Were abolitionists
  • Saw parallels between slaves and women

Question 64

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After the Seneca Falls Conference, [blank_start]abolition[blank_end] took the spotlight away from [blank_start]women's rights[blank_end] for awhile.
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  • abolition
  • women's rights

Question 65

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Men's abolition groups and women's abolition groups were usually united
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  • True
  • False

Question 66

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People from [blank_start]Kansas[blank_end] didn't really want slavery, but people from [blank_start]Missouri[blank_end] jumped the border and voted
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  • Kansas
  • Missouri

Question 67

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What happened during the riots after the Kansas-Nebraska act?
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  • John Brown and his sons started killing people
  • Kansas got the nickname "Bleeding Kansas"
  • Senator Charles Sumner's nephew attacked him in congress
  • Admission of Kansas and Nebraska as states was delayed

Question 68

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Why did Dred Scott sue for his freedom?
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  • He had lived in a free state
  • He said his master had given him his freedom right before he died
  • He had been free and then wrongfully recaptured

Question 69

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On the Dred Scott case, chief justice Taney said
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  • Once a slave, always a slave
  • Slaves could, in some cases, gain their freedom
  • Only free blacks could ever be citizens
  • Blacks, slave or free, could never be citizens
  • The government could bar slavery in some states
  • The government could not bar slavery anywhere

Question 70

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Abraham Lincoln was the first candidate for the
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  • Republican Party
  • Whig Party
  • Northern Democratic Party
  • New Constitution Party

Question 71

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Stephen Douglas
Answer
  • Northern Democratic Party
  • Southern Democratic Party
  • Ran against Lincoln in 1860
  • Wanted to protect slavery
  • Wanted popular sovereignty

Question 72

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Soon after Lincoln was elected, the entire deep South seceded from the union
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 73

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Who was named president of the confederate states?
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  • Stephen Douglas
  • Jefferson Davis
  • John Breckenridge
  • Joseph Stalin

Question 74

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Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland, the border states, were [blank_start]slave[blank_end] states and were in the [blank_start]union[blank_end].
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  • slave
  • free
  • union
  • confederacy

Question 75

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The battle at [blank_start]Fort Sumter[blank_end] started the Civil War.
Answer
  • Fort Sumter
  • Charleston
  • Gettysburg

Question 76

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The Emancipation Proclamation
Answer
  • Freed the slaves in the southern states
  • Freed the slaves in the border states
  • Was issued by Abraham Lincoln
  • Was issued by Ulysses S. Grant

Question 77

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[blank_start]Robert E. Lee[blank_end] surrendered to [blank_start]Ulysses S. Grant[blank_end], ending the Civil War.
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  • Robert E. Lee
  • Ulysses S. Grant

Question 78

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The South surrendered at [blank_start]Appomattox[blank_end]. Lincoln was assassinated at [blank_start]Ford's Theatre[blank_end].
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  • Appomattox
  • Ford's Theatre

Question 79

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Andrew Johnson
Answer
  • Was Lincoln's VP
  • Was an effective leader
  • Punished the South harshly
  • Was a southern sympathizer
  • Pardoned Confederate officials, officers, and wealthy supporters
  • Re-empowered the slavocracy

Question 80

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Amendments Right to vote will not be denied based on race, color, or previous servitude - [blank_start]15[blank_end] Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the U.S. - [blank_start]13[blank_end] All persons born in the U.S. are citizens of the U.S. - [blank_start]14[blank_end]
Answer
  • 15
  • 13
  • 14

Question 81

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The Radical Republicans
Answer
  • Rose up during reconstruction
  • Were led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
  • Were led by Andrew Johnson and Stephen Douglas
  • Kept freedmen oppressed by sharecropping
  • Supported true democracy and education for freedmen
  • Put the northern military in the South to make them adhere to the rules
  • Wouldn't let states re-enter the Union unless they followed the rules

Question 82

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The “40 acres and a mule” idea passed and was successful
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 83

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Sharecropping
Answer
  • Plantation owners and freedmen each got 50% of crops
  • Prices were fixed so freedmen never made enough to buy their own land
  • Groups of freedmen owned former plantations that they shared among several of them
  • Was effective

Question 84

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Almost all blacks wanted white support from Freedmen's Bureaus
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 85

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Jim Crow Laws
Answer
  • Were designed to disenfranchise blacks
  • In some states, if you couldn’t read, or didn’t own property, you couldn’t vote
  • Some states had a poll tax - most blacks couldn’t afford it
  • Some states had grandfather clause - if your grandfather couldn’t vote, you couldn’t vote
  • In some states, KKK membership was required to vote
  • Because I'm Batman
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