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AP US History Blizzard Bag 2014 - 2015 Civil War and Reconstitution
1. Which of the following is true regarding mid-1800s society?
A. Women began to work more outside jobs.
B. There was a rise in the middle class.
C. The upper class was growing at a rapid pace.
D. People were having more children per family.
E. Women began to indulge in the flapper lifestyle.
2.
Which former Confederate state was not included in the South's division into five military
districts?
A. Missouri
B. New Mexico
C. West Virginia
D. Tennessee
E. Kentucky
3. The turning point of the war is considered to be the simultaneous battles of
A. Bull Run and Shiloh
B. Gettysburg and Vicksburg
C. Shiloh and Vicksburg
D. Antietam and Gettysburg
E. Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville
4. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 did all of the following EXCEPT
A. grant African American men the right to vote
B. divide the South into military districts
C. send Union generals to command certain southern areas
D. protect former slaves against the Ku Klux Klan
E. create requirements for Confederate states to be readmitted
5. Which significant event occurred on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia?
A. General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
B. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
C. General Johnston signed an armistice with General Sherman.
D. Hundreds of thousands of Confederate soldiers deserted their units.
E. Jefferson Davis was captured by Union cavalry.
6. In August 1861, Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act, which authorized the seizure of
A. any Confederate weapons purchased from the North
B. all property used to support the rebellion
C. all taxable crops grown in the Deep South states
D. all Confederate military strategy plans
E. all slaves living in the Union states
7. One of the foremost Reconstruction plans of the Radical Republicans included
A. the renewal of an agriculturally based society
B. getting the federal government to grant African Americans the right to vote
C. creating more Catholic churches
D. keeping the Confederate leaders in power only in the South
E. rebuilding the Democratic Party in the states of the deep South
8. What was the country's reaction to Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A. The abolitionist movement began to decline in popularity.
B. The story had little effect since it was a fictional story.
C. There were slave uprisings in several southern cities.
D. Southern Democrats protested to have Stowe arrested for the publication.
E. There was a mixture of empathy and outrage throughout the North.
9. A southern African American family's life would most likely have changed for the better
during Reconstruction through an improvement in
A. women's rights
B. politics and prohibition
C. job placement
D. geographic relocation
E. education and churches
10. For which reason was President Andrew Johnson impeached?
A. his light actions toward ex-Confederates
B. his creation of the Freedmen's Bureau
C. his authorization of the Civil Rights Act of 1866
D. his disregarding of the Tenure of Office Act
E. his refusal to occupy the military districts of the South
11. The siege of the Alamo resulted from which of the following?
A. the imperialist desires of the United States government
B. Texas declaring independence from Mexico
C. the annexation of Texas by the United States
D. slavery becoming legalized in the new state of Texas
E. the United States declaration of war on Mexico
12. How did the slavery issue in the United States intensify after the Mexican American War?
A. In exchange for land, the U.S. gave Mexico thousands of African slaves.
B. The U.S. government banned slavery in all of the land ceded by Mexico.
C. Debates began over whether the newly acquired U.S. land would allow slavery.
D. Slaves were promised their freedom for fighting against the Mexicans.
E. Slaves attempted to make their way to Mexico where slavery had been outlawed.
13.
The cartoon above portrays
A. President Johnson vetoing the Freedmen's Bureau declaring it unconstitutional
B. Johnson's ability to successfully administer the policies of Reconstruction
C. President Johnson pleading with Congress to pass new Reconstruction legislation
D. Johnson's reaction to the overriding of his veto of the Freedmen's Bureau
E. Johnson's demands that the stipulations of the Freedmen's Bureau be reorganized
14. Industrialization and the expansion of interregional trade primarily caused which of the
following?
A. the growth of urban cities
B. higher taxes
C. fewer jobs
D. less farming
E. a more educated population
15. How did Andrew Jackson handle the banking crisis upon his election to the presidency?
A. He tried to replace the Second Bank of the United States with a smaller national
bank.
B. He took measures to shut down the Bank of the United States and weaken federal
control over banking.
C. He deposited federal funds into the National Bank.
D. He created the first national bank operated soley by the federal government.
E. He increased federal funding to reinstate the charter for the Bank of the United
States.
16.
This cartoon, labeled "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler," represents which of the
following?
A. the Missouri Compromise
B. the election on 1852
C. Bleeding Kansas
D. the Civil War
E. John Browns raid
17. What was the public's response to Nat Turner's slave rebellion?
A. Southern slave owners became tougher on slaves because they feared another
revolt.
B. Many southern states launched a moral crusade in an effort to abolish slavery.
C. Several states began an emancipation process.
D. The public did not feel threatened, but instead saw the event as a cowardly.
E. Slave owners began to gradually lighten up their slave codes.
18.
This drawing symbolizes a social movement that took place during the mid-1800s known as
A. temperance
B. nativism
C. reformation
D. prohibition
E. revivalism
19.
"We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and
young, rich and poor; feel the hard hand of war."
—William Tecumseh Sherman
1865
This quote is referring to which of the following?
A. the Confederate surrender
B. the burning of Atlanta
C. the Virginia Campaign
D. firing upon Fort Sumter
E. the Battle of Antietam
20. The Trail of Tears was the name given to
A. the path on which Europeans settled newly acquired western lands
B. the path traveled by settlers seeking gold in California
C. the settlement of Native Americans forced to live west of the Mississippi River
D. the relocation of millions of settlers into Oregon country
E. the forced migration of the Cherokee into Indian Territory