Download Marbury v. Madison? Judiciary Act of 1789

1. Who were the “midnight judges”?
 Judges who received their appointments
only hours before John Adams left office.
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Lewis and Clark expedition and St. Louis?
 St. Louis was the starting and ending point
of the journey
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3. What law did the Supreme Court use in deciding Marbury v.
Madison?
Judiciary Act of 1789
4. What decision did Jefferson make, even though Federalists had
opposed it?
To decrease military spending by reducing the size of the army and
navy.
5. What motivated Thomas Jefferson to send Lewis and Clark to the
Louisiana Purchase?
To learn about the West and find a river route to the Pacific Ocean.
6. What motivated Lewis and Clark to bring Sacagawea on the
expedition?
To serve as a guide and interpreter
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7. What was the result of the case of Marbury vs. Madison?
Marbury demanded that the Supreme Court exercise its powers
granted by the Judiciary Act of 1789.
8. What was the importance of the Supreme Court’s decision in
Marbury v. Madison?
It established the principle of judicial review.
9. When the House of Representatives had to determine the winner
to the 1824 presidential election, how did Henry Clay influence the
vote?
by backing John Quincy Adams
10. How would you describe the power held by slave states in
Congress in 1819?
Equal power in the Senate and less power in the House.
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11. How would you state why Southerners opposed
protective tariffs?
Their region had little industry and relied heavily on
imported goods.
12. How would you generalize the beliefs of Jackson’s
supporters in regard to his election?
A victory for the common people.
13. How would you describe why more poor white men
gained suffrage in the 1820s and 1830s?
Because many states eliminated property ownership as
a qualification for voting.
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14. What motivated the Sauk to fight with the
U.S. government?
Because federal officials ordered the removal of
all American Indians from Illinois.
15. What was the function of the Indian Removal
Act?
to open land in the Southeast to American
farmers
16.What does the phrase “Liberty and Union,
now and forever, one and inseparable!” reflect?
Daniel Webster’s opposition to nullification.
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17. How would you generalize the beliefs of states’ rights
supporters?
The power of the federal government is strictly limited by
the Constitution.
18. How would you describe Henry Clay beliefs about
internal improvements such as roads and canals?
that they would make trade easier and connect the
regions of the country
19. How would you express why Jackson vetoed
legislation to renew the Second Bank of the United
States’ charter?
He believed that the Bank was too powerful.
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20. What was the motive of the First Seminole
War?
when General Jackson and his troops invaded
Florida without presidential authorization
21. How would you identify the source of funding
for the Erie Canal?
the taxpayers of New York
22. What influenced the works of James
Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving?
nationalism
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23. Using the list below, how would you identify which of the
following are related to the issues of nullification? I. South Carolina
Exposition and Protest, II. Webster-Hayne debate, III. Second
Bank of the U.S., IV. Panic of 1837
I and II only
24. When South Carolina passed a resolution claiming nullification
of the 1828 and the 1832 tariffs, how did President Jackson react?
He threatened to send U.S. troops into South Carolina to enforce
federal laws.
25. In Worchester v. Georgia, what did the Supreme Court declare
about the Cherokee Nation?
It was a distinct community in its own territory in which the laws of
Georgia could have no force.
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26. How, with the technical advances of the 19th
century, could workers more easily assemble
products and replace defective parts?
because of interchangeable parts
27. During the 1800s, what made the growth in
communication, trade, and travel possible?
steamboats, railroads, and the expansion of
roads and canals
28. How did Samuel Slater’s occupation relate to
industrial development of the U.S.?
He was a skilled mechanic in Britain
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29. In the early 1800s, why did young, single
women from New England leave their homes?
they came to work in the Lowell mills
30. What laws did Parliament pass because of
people like Samuel Slater?
laws against leaving the country with mill
machines or plans
31. What best describes the occupations of most
people in Europe and the United States, in the
early 1700s?
farmers
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32. What is significant about the textile mill in
Pawtucket, Rhode Island?
First successful mill
33. What increased competition for factory jobs
in the 1840s?
the Panic of 1837 and a wave of immigration
34. Before the War of 1812, why were
Americans reluctant to build new factories and
machinery?
because British manufacturers could produce
large amounts of goods and charge lower prices
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35. How would you explain how Eli Whitney contributed
to the Industrial Revolution?
He introduced mass production and interchangeable
parts
36. How would you compare the work hours of
government employees and private employees?
Private employees worked 12–14 hours, six days a week
37. What was significant about the steam-engine?
It was the first breakthroughs of the Transportation
Revolution.
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38. What caused Charleston, Savannah, and New
Orleans to grow into major port cities?
growing cotton trade with Great Britain and the Northeast
39. Why did cities grow rapidly during the mid-1800s?
immigration and the migration of rural inhabitants to
urban areas
40. In the early 1800’s, why couldn’t the U.S. textile
industry compete with Britain?
The lower British prices discouraged investors from
building new factories and machinery.
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41. How would you express the purpose of Nat Turner’s
escape from slavery?
to lead a violent slave revolt
42. Why did enslaved parents tell folk tales to their slave
children?
to teach the children how to survive under slavery
43. The cotton gin revived the South’s agricultural
economy; when did Eli Whitney develop his cotton gin?
during a visit to a Georgia plantation where he learned
that such a machine was needed
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44. What states were covered by “The Cotton
Belt”?
South Carolina to Texas
45. What caused the slave trade to increase
during the early 1800s?
growing and harvesting cotton and other
southern crops required a large number of field
hands
46. What did cotton account for by 1860?
more than half of all U.S. exports
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47/. How were yeomen farmers different from
planters?
They generally worked side by side with slaves,
whereas planters had drivers or overseers
48. Why did slave traders sometimes kidnap free
African Americans from the North?
to sell them into slavery
49. By 1860 what did many planters believe
about the expansion of the cotton trade?
it had turned the South into a global power
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50. How would you classify the means by which most
southern farmers transported their cash crops to port
cities?
navigable rivers
51. How would you classify the occupations of free
African Americans who lived in southern cities?
skilled artisans
52. Why did southern leaders refer to cotton as “King
Cotton”?
because of the importance of the cotton trade to the
South’s economy
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53. How would you classify the economic relationship
between Great Britain and the Antebellum South?
Great Britain was the South’s main trading partner
54. How would you classify the ironworks of Richmond?
One of the nation’s most productive
55. Why did Nat Turner and his followers kill almost 60
white people in Virginia?
Turner believed that God had called on him to overthrow
slavery.
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56. What was the greatest benefit offered by the rise of
industry and growth of cities in the Northeast?
that people could own their own businesses or work in
skilled occupations
57. During the early 1800’s, what did abolitionists
disagree about?
the degree of equality that African Americans should
have in society
58. How would you identify the abolitionist who once told
an audience that he was a thief and a robber because he
“stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master,
and ran off with them.”?
Frederick Douglass
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59. How would you express the reason Angelina and
Sarah Grimké joined the antislavery movement?
They rejected the views of their southern, slaveholding
family.
60. Of the following, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Fuller,
Angelina Grimke and Ann Sophia Stephens, who wrote
Appeal to the Christian Women of the South?
Angelina Grimké.
61. How would you describe the movement led by
Harriet Tubman?
Underground Railroad, a network of people who
arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitive
slaves.
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62. Of the following, prisoners, slaves, the disabled and
abolitionists, who was the Underground Railroad
designed to aid?
slaves
63. Where did the common-school movement get its
name?
from the effort to have all children, regardless of their
class or background, educated in a common place
64. How would you classify the roles of Douglass, Truth,
and Tubman in the abolition movement in relation to their
race and former social status?
Key, since all were former slaves who spoke for the
movement
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65. What is the significance of the Irish potato blight?
Irish immigrants came to America after starvation
threatened their existence
66. What is significant about the publication of the paper
the North Star?
It was published by abolitionist Frederick Douglass
67. What was written by the organizers of the Seneca
Falls Convention and was it based on?
Declaration of Sentiments modeled on the language of
the Declaration of Independence.
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68. What was white northerners’ opposition to the
abolition movements based upon?
on the belief that African Americans should not receive
equal treatment and that freed slaves would take jobs
away from white northerners
69. From 1836 to 1844 in the U.S. House of
Representatives, what discussion was prevented by the
Gag Rule?
antislavery petitions
70. What was significant about Oberlin College?
It was the first college to accept Blacks in America
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71. What is the main idea of transcendentalism?
To encourage people to follow their personal
beliefs and rise above reaso
72. How would you describe the views of Horace
Greeley and William Lloyd Garrison relating to
abolition?
Both were abolitionist.
73. What did the Know-Nothings want?
to exclude Catholics and immigrants from public
office
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74. What was the purpose of the American Temperance
Society and the American Temperance Union?
to urge people to give up or to limit the consumption of
alcohol
75. How would you classify the movement led by Harriet
Tubman?
She led the Underground Railroad Movement, a network
of people who arranged transportation and hiding places
for fugitive slaves.
76. Of the following, Ann Lee, Lyman Beecher, Dorthea
Dix and Susan B. Anthony, who turned the fight for
women’s right into a political movement?
Susan B. Anthony
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77. How would you explain the Southern
reaction to the abolition movement?
Uniting in their defense of slavery.
78/. Who was the empresario that brought
settlers to the colony on the lower Colorado
River?
Stephen F. Austin
79. Who was the commander of the Texas army
at San Jacinto?
Sam Houston
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80. During the Texas Revolution, who led the Mexican
army?
Antonio López de Santa Anna
81.Why was Stephen F. Austin jailed for a year and a
half?
for requesting more self-government for Texas
82. How would you explain why the Mexican government
restricted American immigration and tried to enforce the
ban on slavery in Texas?
because Tejanos were outnumbered by American
settlers, some of whom were slaveholders
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83. What was the first capital of the Republic of
Texas?
Houston
84. Who did Santa Anna’s 1,800 Mexican
soldiers attack in March
189 defenders of the Alamo
85. Where was the location of the Santa Fe
Trail?
from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New
Mexico
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86. How are the Texas Constitution and the U.S.
Constitution different?
Texas legalized slavery and the U.S. did not
87. How would you explain why Presidents Andrew
Jackson and Martin Van Buren declined to annex Texas?
because Texas would have entered the Union as a slave
state
88. What was received in exchange for recruiting settlers
for Texas?
Empresarios received as much as 67,000 acres of land
for every 200 families.
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89. What motivated anti-slavery activists to oppose the
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
They feared more slave states entering the Union
90. How would you explain why Mexican soldiers
launched an assault on U.S. troops in 1846?
because General Taylor refused to remove his troops
from the border region
91. Some politicians believed that the Oregon Country
was needed to secure the growing U.S. trade with which
country?
China
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92.. Forty-niners who arrived in California after traveling
around the Cape of Good Hope or across the Isthmus of
Panama were usually from which area?
Mexico or South America
93. Who were Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo
Emerson?
transcendentalist writers who opposed the Mexican War
94. How would you explain Henry Clay’s position
regarding Texas in the 1844 election
He initially opposed annexation of Texas and then
halfheartedly supported it.
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95. Texas became a state in 1845; how would you
describe why the Mexican government was angered by
this act?
Because it considered Texas a “stolen province.”
96. How would you describe the people who traveled on
the Mormon Trail?
American Mormons fleeing persecution and Mormon
converts from Great Britain and Scandinavia
97. While northern abolitionists opposed the Mexican
War because of the potential slave states that might
develop in the Southwest, some pro-slavery southerners
worried about which of the following issues?
New territories might ban slavery.
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98. How did German immigrant Levi Strauss
earn his fortune in California?
by making durable denim work pants to sell to
miners
99. When did General Taylor first march his
troops to the Rio Grande?
before Congress declared war on Mexico on
May 13, 1846
100. What treaty that ended the Mexican War?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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101. What was the disputed border region over
which the United States and Mexico fought?
The Nueces River and the Rio Grande
102. The Gadsden Purchase required the U.S.
government to pay Mexico $10 million for a strip
of land that included the southern parts of what
are now which states?
Arizona and New Mexico
103. Whatever their method of travel, where did
most forty-niners arrive in California?
San Francisco
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104. What did “Fifty-four forty or fight!” refer to
he United States and Great Britain’s contest over the
northern boundary of Oregon Country
105. Why Why did most members of the Free-Soil Party
oppose the spread of slavery?
Because they believed allowing slavery to expand would
make it difficult for free men to find work.
106. How would you describe the people John Brown
intended to arm as a result of his raid on Harper’s Ferry?
Enslaved people and begin an insurrection against
slaveholders.
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107. How would you describe the purpose of
“personal liberty laws” passed in the North?
to restrict slave recapture.
108. What was the purpose of the Wilmot
Proviso?
the abolition of slavery in territories won from
Mexico
109. How would you identify the major issue
dividing the parties in the election of 1860?
as slavery.
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110. Of the following, Whigs, Republicans, Democrats,
and Know-Nothings, which party was united by its
followers’ opposition to the expansion of slavery?
Republican Party
111. How would you describe the issue which led to the
Civil War and resulted in the Compromise of 1850?
Maintaining the balance of power of slave and free
states in the Senate.
112. How would you generalize the Dred Scott Decision?
Slaves are property and property could be taken to any
territory.
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113. Why did they call Henry Clay the “Great
Compromiser”?
He mediated disputes in Congress
114. On what major factor did the Supreme Court rule
that Dred Scott was not free?
Because his status, as free or slave, depended on the
laws of Missouri, where his owner lived.
115. The question of whether California would be
admitted to the Union as a free state or a slave state was
decided by which issue?
By Henry Clay offering a series of proposals to address
all of the current issues of sectional disagreement.
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116. When Stephen Douglas introduced the KansasNebraska bill, how did southern senators react?
They agreed to abandon their plan for a southern
railroad route if the new territory west of Missouri was
opened to slavery.
117. Of the following states, Mississippi, Alabama, South
Carolina and Texas, which was the first to secede from
the Union?
South Carolina.
118. How would you describe the Fugitive Slave Act?
A part of the Compromise of 1850.
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119. What happened after John Brown seized the federal arsenal in
Harpers Ferry?
He hoped slaves in the region would join him, but none did.
120. How did California enter the Union?
As a free state.
121. On what basis did the U.S. Supreme Court rule that Congress
could not prohibit someone from taking slaves into a federal
territory?
Slaves were considered property.
122. In 1854 Stephen Douglas introduced a bill in Congress that
would organize which of the following territories?
The remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories, each to
determine the slavery question by popular sovereignty.
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123. What was the reaction of many southerners
to Lincoln’s election?
They believed that Lincoln, if elected president,
would move to abolish slavery.
124. What happened after Preston Brooks beat
Charles Sumner on the Senate floor?
Many southerners sent Brooks new canes
125. Which presidential candidate opposed the
spread of slavery but promised not to support
abolishing it where it already existed?
Abraham Lincoln
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126. What was Taney’s ruling after hearing Dred Scott’s
petition for freedom?
As a non-citizen, Scott did not have the right to file suit in
federal court.
127. Of the following, Mobile, AL; Montgomery, AL;
Richmond, VA; and Vicksburg, MS, identify which was
the location of the first capital of the Confederacy?
Montgomery, Alabama
128. Of the following, Washington, Winston, Jefferson,
Mobile, which Northern Alabama county disagreed with
Alabama’s decision to secede from the Union?
Winston County
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129. Why did a 700 member pro-slavery posse sack
Lawrence, Kansas in 1856?
after a grand jury charged antislavery government
leaders with treason
130. Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write her powerful
antislavery novel?
after reading slave narratives and meeting fugitive slaves
in Ohio, where she lived
131. To aid the abolitionist cause, what did John Brown
decide in 1858?
to raid a federal arsenal in Virginia, arm local slaves,
lead them to freedom, and kill or capture any white
southerner who stood in the way of his plan
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132. In 1846, what was true about the Wilmot Proviso?
It stated that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude
should ever exist in any part of the Mexican cession.
133. What was Lincoln’s campaign promise regarding
the South?
not attack the South or try to abolish slavery in the South
134. What did Winston County, Alabama, and the
western counties of Virginia have in common?
They withdrew from their home state when their state left
the Union.
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135. What was the main effect of the Emancipation
Proclamation?
It made the Civil War a war against slavery, and the
British did not intervene on the side of the Confederacy.
136. What was the main result of Lincoln suspending
writs of habeas corpus?
A person could be imprisoned indefinitely without trial.
137. What can be said about the food shortage suffered
by the South during the Civil War?
The South’s transportation system had collapsed and
Union troops occupied several important agricultural
regions.
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138. What was the main idea of Lincoln’s
inaugural speech?
It repeated his commitment not to interfere with
slavery where it already existed.
139. Why did Lincoln want to prevent Maryland
from seceding?
Washington, D.C., would be surrounded by
Confederate territory.
140. After Lincoln fired McClellan, who
commanded the Army of the Potomac?
Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant
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141. Robert E. Lee did not accept command of
the Union troops because he could not fight
against Virginia.
142. What was the purpose of General William
Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea"
through Georgia?
to destroy everything that might be of use to the
enemy
143. How was the South negatively affected at
the Battle of Chancellorsville?
The southern victory was marred by the loss of
Stonewall Jackson.
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144. What ideas showed how Abraham Lincoln
expanded the powers of the presidency during the Civil
War?
suspending the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland
145. How would you summarize the importance of the
capture of Chattanooga by Union forces during the Civil
War?
They would then control a major railroad running south
to Atlanta.
146. What can be said about the significance of the
Union capture of the city of Vicksburg?
The Union would have achieved one of its basic military
goals, control of the entire Mississippi River.
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147. What can you say about the importance of
Farragut’s victory at Mobile Bay?
Blockade runners could no longer use any port
on the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi
River.
148. How can "Copperheads" best be classified?
northern antiwar Democrats
149. What was the most important transportation
advantage held by the North during the Civil
War?
more miles of railroad tracks
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150. How would you classify the military leadership of
the Southern army?
The South had more skilled military leaders than the
North.
151. How were southern ties to the land an advantage
during the Civil War?
Southerners were familiar with the land upon which they
fought, and they were defending their homes.
152. How would you classify the southern belief that the
cotton trade would win them foreign support during the
Civil War?
Cotton Diplomacy
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153. Of the following, Antietam, Bull Run, Shiloh,
Chicahominy, which was the location of the first major
clash of Union and Confederate armies?
Bull Run, near Manassas Junction, Virginia.
154. Of the following, Fort Sumter, Fort Henry, Fort
Donelson, Fort Defiance, which was the fort that
controlled the entrance to Charleston Harbor?
Fort Sumter.
155. What was ordered by the Emancipation
Proclamation?
It called for all slaves in areas rebelling against the Union
to be freed.
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156. During the Civil War, approximately how
many American lives were lost?
620,000
157. How did suspending habeas corpus allow
President Lincoln to silence the Copperheads?
By withdrawing constitutional protection against
unlawful imprisonment.
158. What best describes the role of African
Americans in the Union army?
They worked as Laborers.
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159. Why did Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and
Arkansas join the Confederacy?
After Lincoln called for 75,000 militia members to fight
the Confederate forces.
160. What best identifies where Lee’s attempt to launch
an offensive into Union territory ended in defeat?
Gettysburg.
161. What did Confederate leaders hope to accomplish
by a victory on Union soil?
To persuade European powers to offer aid to the South.
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162. How would you describe the targeting of
military as well as civilian economic resources to
destroy an opponent’s ability and will to fight?
Total war.
163. At the beginning of the war, what was a
Northern advantage?
A greater number of factories.
164. Through cotton diplomacy, what did the
South tried to accomplish?
To win foreign support, particularly from Great
Britain.
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165. Why did the Union navy want to blockade
the South?
To cut off southern trade and hurt the economy.
166. Why did the 1861 Confederate draft lead to
resentment among poor southerners?
Because the draft excluded those who held a
large number of slaves.
167. What could best be described as a
Southern advantage at the beginning of the
war?
Skilled military leaders.
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168. How would you describe the Copperheads?
Northerners and Midwesterners who sympathized with
the South and opposed abolition.
169. When did the Union gain control of the Mississippi
River?
After surrender of Pemberton’s forces to General Grant
at Vicksburg.
170. For most of the war, which of the following is true
for the 180,000 African American soldiers who fought
with the Union?
They received less pay than their white counterparts.
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171. In 1861 Lincoln offered command of the Union
forces to which U.S. Army officer?
Robert E. Lee
172. How would your summarize the Trent Affair?
It brought the Union close to war with Britain.173During
the Civil War, who was promised by General Sherman
“40 acres and a mule”?
freed slave families in the South
174. How is Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction related to
an oath of loyalty and a promise to accept that slaves
are now free?
Southerners would be pardoned.
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175. What was the Southern motive for ratifying the
Fourteenth Amendment under the Republicans’
Reconstruction plan?
Former Confederates states would be allowed to elect
people to Congress.
176. What was the theme of Lincoln’s plan for
Reconstruction?
To reconcile with the South rather than punishing it.
177. How would you describe the attitude of the Radical
Republicans toward the citizenship of former slaves?
They should be granted citizenship, including the right to
vote.
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178. Under Johnson’s Reconstruction plan, what
was the motivation of many members of
Congress voting to reject the representatives
that Southern voters elected?
Because they were former Confederate leaders.
179. How would you identify the action that
signaled the end of Reconstruction?
the passage of the Compromise of 1877
180. What is the main idea of the Jim Crow
Laws?
to segregate blacks and whites.
181. What was the theme of the Ku Klux
Klan’s organized resistance against
Reconstruction?
 to reverse Reconstruction in the South
 182. What abolished slavery in the North?
 the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment
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Amendment designed to protect?
 Civil Rights Act of 1866
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184. What Amendment protects the suffrage of
African American men?
15th Amendment
185. What did former Confederate states have to
accomplish before they could elect
representatives to Congress?
ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
186. Which of the following abolished slavery in
the North?
the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment
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187. Which post-Civil War Amendment gives African
Americans full rights of citizenship?
14th
188. Why did the American Anti-Slavery Society split in
1840?
over the role of women in the abolition movement
189. What was the response of some poor immigrants in
the North who feared losing their jobs to African
Americans?
They participated in riots in New York City in 1863
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would you classify people known as
carpetbaggers?
Northern born Republicans who came South after the
war
191. How would you classify people known as
scalawags?
Small farmers who had supported the Union during the
war
.192. What best describes the sharecropping system?
Sharecroppers provided landowners with their labor in
exchange for part of the crop
190. How
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193. What were the features of Lincoln’s Plan for
Reconstruction?
Lenient and fair treatment for the South
194. Who proposed the Fourteenth
Amendment?
Radical Republicans
195. What motivated African Americans to vote
Republican in 1868?
To help Ulysses S. Grant and the “party of
Lincoln” win a narrow victory.
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196. When did the Thirteenth Amendment outlaw
slavery?
January 1865
197. How were Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
related to the Republican Party?
They led the Radical Republicans, who wanted the
federal government to be much more involved in
Reconstruction.
198. What were the features of Johnson’s Plan for
Reconstruction?
The states that had set up their governments under
Lincoln’s plan were allowed to keep their governments in
place.
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199. What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
To aid poor whites and former slaves in the South
200. Who was not guaranteed citizenship and equal
protection under the law as a result of the Fourteenth
Amendment?
American Indians.
201. After Reconstruction ended, what was
accomplished by Democrats known as Redeemers?
They cut budgets and taxes, eliminated social programs,
and limited civil rights for African Americans.
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202. What happened when many farmers planted cotton
after the war?
The supply became too great and the price of cotton
dropped.
203. In the mid-1870s,why did support for
Reconstruction fade in the Republican Party?
Because people were growing concerned about
economic problems and government corruption.
204. What was the Republican motive for choosing
Ulysses S. Grant as their presidential candidate?
He was a war hero who supported the congressional
plan for Reconstruction.
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205. What ideas reflect the views of southern voters
during Reconstruction?
More than 600 African American representatives to state
legislatures and 16 to Congress.
206. When did many women’s rights activists object to
the wording of the Fifteenth Amendment?
When the amendment did not extend the right to vote to
all Americans.
207. Of the following, Black Codes, the Compromise of
1877, Jim Crow laws and the Civil Rights Act, which
were laws passed after Reconstruction ended enforcing
segregation?
Jim Crow laws.
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208. How would you describe African-American
voters during Reconstruction?
Republicans
209. How would you describe the purpose of the
Freedmen’s Bureau?
To provide relief to all poor people in the South.
210/ How would you describe when
Reconstruction ended?
1877 when President Hayes removed the last
federal troops from the South.
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211. What best describes the main purpose of the Ku
Klux Klan?
to oppose civil rights for African Americans
212. Why did the Republican party control most southern
governments during Reconstruction?
because the Fourteenth Amendment banned many
former Confederates from holding office.
213. In 1865 how were newly elected representatives
from reconstructed southern states received by
Congress?
They were not allowed to take their seats in the House
and Senate.
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214. What happened when Congress proposed
increasing the powers of the Freedmen’s Bureau
in 1866?
President Johnson vetoed the bill.
215. What was the main idea of The Morrill Act
of 1862?
the grant of public lands to states for land-grant
colleges
216. What university was established as a result
of the Morrill Land Grant Act in Alabama?
Tuskegee University