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The Big Practice Test part 2 Expansion, Reform, Civil War, and Reconstruction Chuck Norris says “Kick the SOL in the rear” The Republican Revolution What invention led to the spread of the slavery-based "cotton kingdom" in the Deep South? a) b) c) d) tractor cotton gin slavery steel plow Who invented the cotton gin? a) b) c) d) Eli Whitney Cyrus McCormick John Deere Henry Ford In 1828, what happened with Americans and the electoral process? a) one did not have to be a male or own land so voting numbers increased b) one did not have to own land so voting numbers increased c) one did not have to own land so voting numbers decreased d) one did not have to be a white male but still had to own land so voting numbers increased What is the name of the practice of using public offices to benefit members of the victorious party? a) b) c) d) federation patronage mandate system civil service What term means a government in which power is vested in a minority consisting of those believed to be best qualified? a) b) c) d) spoils system aristocracy patronage federation Which president enacted the spoils system after being elected? a) b) c) d) James Monroe Andrew Johnson William Henry Harrison Andrew Jackson What did Andrew Jackson do after being re-elected in 1832 causing the Panic of 1837? a) He declared a bank holiday until all banks were safe to reopen. b) He supported the Bank of the United States. c) He withdrew money from state banks and put it into the Bank of the U.S. d) He withdrew government money from the Bank of the U.S. and deposited it in state banks. What economic situation resulted from reckless speculation that led to bank failures and dissatisfaction with the use of state banks as depositories for public funds? a) b) c) d) Panic Panic Panic Panic of 1857 of 1847 of 1837 of 1832 What was the name of the forced march of the Native Americans from their homes on the Atlantic coast to Oklahoma? a) b) c) d) Long Walk Home Trail of Tears Santa Fe trail March to Oklahoma Which area did Americans move to sparking an armed revolt by Mexican rule? a) b) c) d) California New Mexico Gadsden Purchase Texas What was the famous battle in the Mexican War in which a band of Texans fought to the last man against a vastly superior force? a) b) c) d) Battle at El Paso El Brazito Battle Battle of San Antonio Battle of the Alamo What was the result of the Texans' eventual victory over Mexican forces? a) U.S. control of California b) Texas became a republic for nine years and eventually joined the union c) Manifest destiny d) Gadsden Purchase to build the railroad American's Manifest Destiny was a belief that the country should stretch from _____________. a) b) c) d) Mississippi River to Rocky Mountains Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains Continental United States plus Alaska and Hawaii Which state is NOT part of the land acquired in the Mexican War? a) b) c) d) Arizona Oklahoma Colorado California What led to the growth of an industrial economy and supported the westward movement of settlers? a) b) c) d) railroads covered wagons and rivers canals and railroads cattle trains In which westward areas did settlers NOT move to in hopes of finding economic opportunity in the form of land to own and farm? a) b) c) d) Southwest Midwest/Great Plains Texas Alaska Causes of the Civil War Why did the northern states favor high protective tariffs? a) It hurt European countries but helped all of the United States. b) It made the American system a success because everyone wanted to buy American products because they were cheaper. c) It provided protection for northern manufacturers from foreign competition. d) It provided protection for northern manufacturers from the southern industries. What was the economy of the southern states in the early 1800's? a) b) c) d) industrial economy with slave-based labor agricultural economy with immigrant-based labor plantation economy with immigrant-based labor agricultural economy with slave-based labor What term means to a state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional? a) b) c) d) nullify veto appease contain Which group argued that individual states could nullify laws passed by Congress and began to insist that states had entered the Union freely and could leave freely. a) b) c) d) Northerners Southerners Westerners Europeans What act drew an east-west line through the Louisiana Purchase making slavery prohibited above 36°30′? a) b) c) d) Compromise of 1850 Compromise of 1828 Louisiana Compromise Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise allowed one state north of the 36°30′ to be a slave state. Which state was that? a) b) c) d) Kansas Missouri Tennessee Nebraska In 1831, who led slave revolts in Virginia that fed southern fears about slave rebellions and led to harsh laws in the south against fugitive slaves? a) b) c) d) Harriet Tubman Harriet Beecher Stowe Daniel Shays Nat Turner At what New York location in 1848 did the first women's rights convention meet? a) b) c) d) Seneca Falls New York City Buffalo Albany What act admitted California into the union as a free state while the new Southwestern territories acquired from Mexico would decide for themselves? a) b) c) d) Compromise of 1820 Compromise of 1850 Kansas-Nebraska Act Treaty of San Lorenzo What act required slaves who escaped to free states to be forcibly returned to their owners in the South? a) b) c) d) Fugitive Slave Act Slave Rebellion Act Missouri Compromise Compromise of 1855 Which best-selling Civil War novel inflamed Northern abolitionist sentiment while frightening Southerners? a) b) c) d) The Underground Railroad Uncle Tom's Cabin John Brown's Raid The Slave Rebellion What law produced bloody fighting as proand anti-slavery forces battled each other? a) b) c) d) Compromise of 1820 Compromise of 1850 Popular Sovereignty Act Kansas-Nebraska Act What act repealed the Missouri Compromise? a) b) c) d) Compromise of 1820 Compromise of 1850 Popular Sovereignty Act Kansas-Nebraska Act What was Lincoln's stance on slavery in the new states in the west? a) b) c) d) for the spread of slavery to every state opposed to the spread of slavery liked popular sovereignty liked slavery in the south but did not want to see it spread to the Pacific How did Stephen Douglas feel about the spread of slavery in the west? a) b) c) d) for the spread of slavery to every state liked popular sovereignty opposed to the spread of slavery liked slavery in the south Who inspired the 1856 Supreme Court decision that overturned efforts to limit the spread of slavery and outraged northerners? a) b) c) d) Dred Scott John Brown Frederick Douglas Nat Turner Who helped to expand the abolitionist movement in the north by publishing an antislavery newspaper titled The Liberator? a) b) c) d) Frederick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison Sojourner Truth John Brown Which is NOT a lady involved with the women's suffrage movement before and after the Civil War? a) b) c) d) Abigail Adams Susan B. Anthony Sojourner Truth Elizabeth Cady Stanton Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? a) b) c) d) William Lloyd Garrison Harriet Tubman Dred Scott Harriet Beecher Stowe What does Lincoln's 1858 warning, "A house divided against itself cannot stand," mean? a) the government can not withstand the economic split b) the White House must be added on to c) the slavery issue can continue if everyone does what they believe in d) the nation could not continue half-free, half-slave; slavery issue must be resolved What state led the south in secession? a) b) c) d) North Carolina Virginia Georgia South Carolina Civil War and Reconstruction What event made 7 states secede from the union? a) b) c) d) election of Abraham Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation Gettysburg Address firing at Fort Sumter How did the southern seceding states feel about our national government? a) They believed America was "one nation", not a collection of states. b) They believed that states had freely joined the union and could freely leave. c) They believed the north was correct. d) They believed that their opinions were not part of democracy so they should leave to preserve the national government. What was the opening confrontation of the Civil War? a) b) c) d) Fort Sumter Vicksburg Atlanta Appomattox Who was President of the United States during the Civil War? a) b) c) d) Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis James Buchanan Andrew Johnson What former slave became a prominent abolitionist and urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight in the Union army? a) b) c) d) Frederick Douglass Gabriel Prosser Nat Turner William Lloyd Garrison Who was the Confederate general who commanded the Army of Northern Virginia? a) b) c) d) Robert E. Lee Joseph Johnston Stonewall Jackson A. P. Hill What announcement did President Lincoln issue after the battle of Antietam freeing slaves only in rebellion slave states? a) b) c) d) Gettysburg Address First Inaugural Address State of the Union speech Emancipation Proclamation What battle is known as the turning point of the Civil War? a) b) c) d) Vicksburg Gettysburg Antietam Shiloh Which Union military commander won victories over the south after several Union commanders had failed? a) b) c) d) McClellan Grant Burnside Cornwallis In what speech did Lincoln describe the Civil War as a struggle to preserve a nation that was dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal" and that was ruled by a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people?" a) b) c) d) Gettysburg Address State of the Union speech Emancipation Proclamation First Inaugural Address At what site did Lee, representing the South, surrender to the North? a) b) c) d) Antietam Appomattox Altoona Atlanta Who accepted Lee's surrender to end the war? a) b) c) d) McClellan Lincoln Grant Sherman Who said, "with malice towards none, with charity for all... to bind up the nation's wounds...?” a) b) c) d) Abraham Lincoln Clara Barton Andrew Johnson Robert E. Lee What happened to President Lincoln shortly after the South's surrender to the North? a) b) c) d) He was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. He was not reelected. He was poisoned. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth. Which is not a result of the Civil War on the south? a) Atlanta and Richmond were in ruins b) Farms, railroads, and factories were destroyed. c) Industry increased due to the lack of farmable land. d) The South remained the poorest section of the nation for many decades following the war. What political group took control after Lincoln's death to influence the process of Reconstruction in a punitive manner towards the Confederate States? a) b) c) d) Democratic-Republicans Radical Republicans Liberty Party Free-Soilers What does the 13th Amendment state? a) direct election of senators b) states can not deny equal rights under the law to any American c) slavery is abolished permanently in the U.S. d) voting rights for women Which amendment states that voting rights are guaranteed regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude? a) b) c) d) 12th Amendment 15th Amendment 14th Amendment 10th Amendment What issue led to the impeachment of President Johnson? a) b) c) d) reinstating southern states to the union assassination of Lincoln civil rights for freed slaves He ignored the Tenure of Office Act In the Compromise of 1877, Republicans agreed to a) b) c) d) not run in another election in the south. end military occupation of the south. pass Jim Crow laws give former Confederates the chance to control the Republican party again. What is the name of the time period in which African Americans in the South were denied the full rights of American citizenship? a) b) c) d) Reconstruction Era Industrial Era Jim Crow Era Progressive Era