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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