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CHAPTERS 13 & 14 TEST REVIEW
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Despite earlier efforts to settle the issue, the slavery question became a major issue in the 1840s and
1850s because the nation was expanding _________________________________________.
2. Advocates of Manifest Destiny claimed the motive for territorial expansion was to extend American
liberty to _________________________________________.
3. Almost all of the supporters of Manifest Destiny agreed that Americans had a God-given right to
expand their superior civilization into ______________________________________________.
4. The initial migration of American settlers to Texas was encouraged by the
___________________________________________________.
5. The main reason for the Texas Revolution was Mexico had become a ________________________.
6. The victorious commanding general at the Battle of San Jacinto was __________________________.
7. Just before Texas became a U.S. state in 1845, Texas was
___________________________________________________________________.
8. In the 1840s, the Oregon Country’s ownership remained in dispute between the United States and
______________________________________________.
9. The first permanent American settlers in Oregon were mainly _______________________________.
10. The second wave of permanent American settlers in Oregon were mainly
__________________________________________.
11. Most migrants traveled to the West Coast by ___________________________________________.
12. The westward journey to the West Coast in the 1840s could be characterized as
__________________________________________________________.
13. In the election campaign of 1844, Henry Clay tried to avoid the issue of _______________________.
14. Martin Van Buren lost the 1844 Democratic party nomination for president because he did not favor
the immediate annexation of _____________________________.
15. The main issue in James K. Polk’s 1844 presidential campaign was his commitment to
______________________________________________________________________.
16.
The Lincoln-Douglas debates resulted in all of the following 4 events:
*Douglas won reelection to the U.S. Senate
*Douglas argued that territorial legislatures could still exclude slavery by simply not passing laws to
protect it
*Lincoln gained a national reputation as a Republican leader by performing well
*Lincoln expressed free-labor sentiments about settlement in the West
17. In the late 1850s, Abraham Lincoln argued that slavery should be allowed to continue in the slave
states, but prohibited in all __________________________________________.
18. When John Brown raided Harper’s Ferry, all of the following 4 events occurred:
*the state of Virginia executed Brown for treason
*Southerners decided that many Northerners were determined to destroy slavery in the Southern
states
*some abolitionists glorified Brown as a saint
*lives were lost among Brown’s raiders
19. John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry increased Southern fears of
___________________________________________________________.
20. During the election of 1860, the Democratic party split into a
_________________________________________________________________________.
21. During the election of 1860, all of the following 4 events occurred:
*the Democratic party split into Northern and Southern wings and ran opposing candidates
*the Republican party ran an exciting campaign, but only in the North
*the nation voted largely along sectional lines
*a new party appeared that tried to hold the union together by avoiding the slavery issue
22. During the 1850s, compromises regarding slavery gave way to
________________________________________________________________.
23. The educational and oratorical brainchild of Josiah Holbrook was a movement called
_________________________________________.
24. Lyceums were established as __________________________________________________.
25. During the middle of the nineteenth century, a spirited topic at lyceums was
_______________________________________________.
26. The event that touched off the process of secession for the majority of southern states was the election
of ___________________________________________________________________.
27. The Crittenden Compromise contained all of the following 4 provisions:
*the preservation of slavery in Washington, D.C.
*a constitutional amendment to guarantee the continued existence of slavery in the current slave
states
*the reestablishment of the Missouri Compromise line
*the prohibition of slavery north of the Missouri Compromise line
28. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln laid down all the following 4 basic principles:
*no state could leave the Union
*acts of force or violence to support secession were insurrectionary
*the government would hold federal property in the seceded states
*the South must not assail federal property
29. The Civil War began when the South fired on Northern forces in
___________________________________________________.
30. Among historians, the key question about the Civil War was:
___________________________________________________________________________?
31. At the outset of the war, the North enjoyed all of the following 4 advantages:
*a much larger manpower reserve
*a more advanced industrial system
*a better transportation system
*twice as many rail lines as the South
32. The difficulties of the Union war effort included extended supply lines across
___________________________________________________.
33. Revisionist historians, such as James G. Randall, argued that the Civil War was caused by inept
_____________________________________________________________.
34. During the Civil War, the U.S. Congress created a national banking system that could issue national
________________________________________________________.
35. During the Civil War, the largest source of revenue for the U.S. government was
_________________________________________.
36. Of the over two million men who served in the Union armies, the largest number were men who
______________________________________________________________________.
37. The victims of mob violence in the New York City draft riots of 1863 were mainly
_______________________________________.
38. President Lincoln responded to opposition to the war effort by engaging in widespread suspension of
___________________________________________________________.
39. In the presidential election of 1864, the Democrats nominated
__________________________________________________________.
40. The Democratic platform of 1864 called for
_____________________________________________________________________________.
41. By the end of 1862, the Union had captured large parts of ________________________________.
42. The 1862 Union campaigns in Virginia resulted in a frustrating and bloody
_____________________________________________.
43. The Battle of Antietam was
________________________________________________________________________________.
44. During 1863, the Union forces achieved decisive victories that effectively sealed the fate of the
Confederacy in the battles of ________________________ and ____________________________.
45. The victorious Union commanders who led the final major campaigns of the war were
________________________________ and _______________________________.
46. The general who orchestrated the “March to the Sea” was
_________________________________________________________.
47. On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at
________________________________________________________.
48. The inventor of modern baseball was ________________________________________________.
49. The popularity of baseball received its greatest boost from the
____________________________________________________________________.
50. The ethno-cultural group of historians studying the Civil War was led by
___________________________________________________________________.