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| 5384256268 | The Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed by Stephen Douglas to promote the building of __________________________. | a transcontinental railroad | 0 | |
| 5389724351 | Prior to the Civil War citizenship was closely linked to_________________. | race | 1 | |
| 5389729311 | _____________________________, formed in 1848, was the first major political party whose charter specifically opposed to slavery. | The Free Soil party | 2 | |
| 5389733702 | The Freedmen's Bureau saw its greatest success in the fields of _____________________ and ___________________. | education, health | 3 | |
| 5389737722 | The ___________________ war marked the first time the U.S. invaded a foreign country. | Mexican American War | 4 | |
| 5389747334 | Under Abraham Lincoln's preliminary Reconstruction plans only ___________________ percent of the 1860 electorate would have to take an oath of allegiance in order for a confederate state to be readmitted to the Union. | ten | 5 | |
| 5389751725 | ___________________________ was the author of the essay entitled on Civil Disobedience which opposed the Mexican-American War. | Henry David Thoreau | 6 | |
| 5389757577 | One stated purpose of General __________________'s march from Atlanta to Savannah was to demoralize the South's civilian population. | Sherman's march | 7 | |
| 5389760898 | T/F:_______________ The Dred Scott decision was highly criticized throughout the North. | True | 8 | |
| 5389766826 | Under the legislation known as ______________________ Kansas and Nebraska would be permitted to decide the slavery issue via popular sovereignty. | The Compromise of 1850 | 9 | |
| 5389773069 | The _____________________ system kept many sharecroppers and tenant farmers in a state of constant debt and poverty. | crop-lien system | 10 | |
| 5389776343 | ___________________ became the destination of choice for the migrating Mormons. | Salt Lake City, Utah | 11 | |
| 5389786296 | T/F:_______________ In 1861, when the Union Military commander in Missouri issued orders freeing all slaves in that state Lincoln publicly endorsed the action he even referred to it in his emancipation proclamation. | False | 12 | |
| 5389794304 | As the newly elected president Lincoln's hesitancy in publicly endorsing abolition was due in part by his desire to keep the ________________________ in the Union. | border states | 13 | |
| 5389799847 | The Republican "free labor" ideology led to arguments by Lincoln and Seward that ___________________ and __________________ were incompatible. | free labor, slave labor | 14 | |
| 5389805034 | The ___________________ would have banned slavery from all lands acquired as a result of the Mexican-American War. | Wilmot Proviso | 15 | |
| 5389813757 | In addition to a position opposing the ______________ decision, the expansion of slavery, and supporting aid to build a transcontinental railroad the 1860 Republican platform also addressed the issue of free homesteads in the West. | Dred Scott | 16 | |
| 5389820482 | T/F: _______________ Contrary to popular opinion the Union and the Confederacy both enjoyed a level of parity when it came to military manpower. | False | 17 | |
| 5389826095 | The group that claimed to have rescued the white South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern black control adopted the name ___________________. | redeemers | 18 | |
| 5389828873 | Mormon leader ________________________ refused to separate church and state. | Joseph Smith | 19 | |
| 5389831980 | The January 1848, ____________________________ brought a flood of people to California. | Gold Strike at Sutters Mill, California | 20 | |
| 5389838279 | T/F: ______________________ The Freedmen's Bureau was responsible for arranging passage for former slaves back to Africa. | False | 21 | |
| 5389843480 | Economically, the ___________________ led to the creation of a nation-state dedicated to national economic development. | Civil War | 22 | |
| 5389848104 | The _______________________ Amendment guaranteed the right to vote without regard to race. | 15th | 23 | |
| 5389853841 | The Emancipation Proclamation was only immediately applicable in those areas held by _______________________. | the Union Army | 24 | |
| 5389857644 | In the view of ________________________ his Reconstruction plans should include at least limited black suffrage. | Abraham Lincoln | 25 | |
| 5389862366 | A "Coolie" was a racial epithet in reference to a ____________________. | Chinese worker | 26 | |
| 5389867531 | By 1860, approximately ___________________________ people had made the trek to Oregon and California. | 300,000 | 27 | |
| 5389872130 | The _____________________ Party was affirmation that antislavery sentiment had spread beyond the abolitionist ranks. | Free Soil Party | 28 | |
| 5389877707 | Jefferson Davis's military was based on the strategic importance of ________________ to the world's economy. | Cotton | 29 | |
| 5389882050 | _____________________ led the Union forces that captured John Brown and his gang at Harper's Ferry. | Colonel Robert E. Lee | 30 | |
| 5389886854 | T/F: _________________ The Confederate Constitution was modeled after the U.S. Constitution. | True | 31 | |
| 5389888831 | The fifteenth amendment guaranteed _____________________. | all men the right to vote regardless of race or previous condition of servitude (slavery). | 32 | |
| 5389892193 | The Battle at ____________________ was the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War. | Antietam | 33 | |
| 5389896059 | The __________________________ Act allowed the federal government to override state and local authorities. | Fugitive Slave Act | 34 | |
| 5389899581 | Expansion of slavery was not one of the justifications for the westward movement known as ____________________________. | Manifest Destiny | 35 | |
| 5389903497 | Andrew Johnson vetoed the ___________________________ because he did not believe blacks deserved citizenship. | 1866 Civil Rights Act | 36 | |
| 5389911309 | The abundance of ________________________ attracted numerous Americans to Texas in the 1820's. | land for farming | 37 | |
| 5389915344 | The phrase "Fifty-four forty or fight" referred the ___________________ border dispute. | northern Oregon | 38 | |
| 5389919544 | T/F: ________________ Prior to his election as President Lincoln supported returning fugitive slaves to their owners. | True | 39 | |
| 5389922029 | The __________________ Amendment abolished slavery. | 13th | 40 | |
| 5389927122 | The growing American presence in Texas led ____________________ to demand more autonomy for Texas from Mexican officials. | Stephen F. Austin | 41 | |
| 5389931776 | For all practical purposes the election of __________________ ended Reconstruction. | 1877 | 42 | |
| 5389936610 | The fighting in ________________ would make it the bloodiest year of the Civil War. | 1864 | 43 | |
| 5389939377 | ____________________ was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. | Stephen A. Douglas | 44 | |
| 5389942362 | Britain outlawed slavery during the decade of the ____________. | 1830's | 45 | |
| 5389948185 | The __________________________ issued by General Sherman confiscated abandoned Plantation lands and divided it amongst the former slaves. | Special Field Order #15 | 46 | |
| 5389951137 | The term _________________________ refers to the period in which blacks comprised a legislative majority in South Carolina. | The Prostate State | 47 | |
| 5389958913 | The Crittenden resolution would have extended the _________________ line to the west, with: slavery prohibited north of the line and guaranteed south of it. | Missouri Compromise Line | 48 | |
| 5389964517 | T/F: ____________________ Andrew Jackson opposed the annexation of Texas fearing it would upset the balance of power between the slave and free states. | True | 49 | |
| 5389968221 | Lincoln waited for the victory at __________________ before releasing his Emancipation Proclamation. | Antietam | 50 | |
| 5389972584 | The ______________ Amendment conferred citizenship on any person born or naturalized in the U.S. | 14th | 51 | |
| 5389976909 | The Whiskey Ring scandal occurred during the __________________ administration. | Ulysses S. Grant | 52 | |
| 5389979519 | The ___________________ would have authorized the U.S. to seize Cuba from Spain. | Ostend Manifesto | 53 | |
| 5389982298 | Frederick Douglass saw ______________________, not as an end, but as a beginning. | the abolition of slavery | 54 | |
| 5389987207 | ____________________________ would prove to be the least successful goal of the radical republican's reconstruction plans. | Land reform | 55 | |
| 5389994693 | The denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants by the ___________________ Party attracted some voters. | Know-Nothing Party | 56 | |
| 5390000940 | Because the incident happened in the disputed area ___________________ who opposed the Mexican American war requested that President Polk should specify the exact spot where blood had first been shed. | Abraham Lincoln | 57 | |
| 5390006118 | Early on it was determined that the main aspirations of former slaves was for ____________________ which would allow them to provide for their families. | ownership of land | 58 | |
| 5390013297 | The National Woman Suffrage Association was founded by __________________________ and ________________________. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | 59 | |
| 5390016732 | The _____________________ and the _________________________ were the first two ironclad warships to engage in combat. | USS Monitor, Merrimac (CSS Virginia) | 60 | |
| 5390020695 | Transcendentalist ________________________ was a very vocal opponent of the Mexican American War. | Henry David Thoreau | 61 | |
| 5390026479 | T/F: __________________ Ulysses S. Grant demonstrated a greater understanding of strategy and tactics than any of his predecessors. | True | 62 | |
| 5390031993 | The meeting between ____________________________ and a group of black ministers in Georgia resulted in the order that will come to be known as the "Forty acres and a mule" rule. | General William T. Sherman | 63 | |
| 5390038251 | General _____________________________ was characterized as forever overestimating the enemy's strength and stalling for time. | George B. McClellan | 64 | |
| 5390043492 | The actions of _______________________ during the war helped inspire Republicans to believe that emancipation should also include equality before the law. | black soldiers | 65 | |
| 5390048014 | The introduction of the _____________ onto the battlefield changed the nature of combat. | rifle | 66 | |
| 5390050448 | For former slaves political freedom meant ____________________. | the right to vote | 67 | |
| 5390056200 | The Union strategy called ___________________________ involved using the naval blockade to "squeeze" the south into submission. | Anaconda | 68 | |
| 5390061996 | The Civil War helped to reinforce the concept that _____________________ also meant that everyone was entitled to fruits of their labors. | the definition of freedom | 69 | |
| 5390068426 | T/F: ________________ To most former salves the concept of freedom was much more than simply the right to vote. | True | 70 | |
| 5390073198 | _______________________ saw himself as the new leader of the Senate after the deaths of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster. | Stephen A. Douglas | 71 | |
| 5390076947 | To assist in the much needed economic growth southern states helped to finance _______________________. | construction of railroads | 72 | |
| 5390081495 | At the first battle of ___________________ local citizens brought picnic lunches to watch the festivities. | Bull Run | 73 | |
| 5390084945 | ______________________ is considered to be the author of the Compromise of 1850. | Henry Clay | 74 | |
| 5390088844 | _____________________ and ________________________ were the first two black members of the U.S. Senate. | Hiriam Revels, Blanche Bruce | 75 | |
| 5390097190 | After 1863, black abolitionist ________________________ urged northern blacks to enlist in the Union Army and fight for freedom. | Frederick Douglass | 76 | |
| 5390102201 | In 1861, ______________________ was the first Union commander to decree that all slaves in his jurisdiction were freed. | John C. Fremont | 77 | |
| 5390107404 | Which of the following countries DID NOT go through sort of popular uprising in 1848: __________________ | Russia | 78 | |
| 5390114752 | In a strange sort of twist, with the _______________________ law, in the Compromise of 1850, normally states-rights southerners were seen as demanding action an involvement by the federal government. | Fugitive Slave Law | 79 | |
| 5390120508 | In Longfellow's "The Warning" poem he compared the __________________ to the biblical character Samson. | American slave | 80 | |
| 5390125227 | Lincoln's suspension of the __________________ was seen by some as exceeding his constitutional powers. | Writ of Habeas Corpus | 81 | |
| 5390134151 | According to most Constitutional scholars ratification of the _______________ Amendment on July 9, 1868, marked the most important change in the Constitution since the adoption of the Bill of Rights. | 14th | 82 | |
| 5390139343 | The Republican practice of reminding the voters that it was the Democrats who had orchestrated the secessionist movement was known as ____________________. | waving the bloody shirt | 83 | |
| 5390142155 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton maintained that ____________________ required universal suffrage. | Reconstruction | 84 | |
| 5390145459 | Lack of a _______________________ political system denied the Confederacy an appreciated opposition. | opposition party | 85 | |
| 5390150866 | ___________________and _____________________ were the names given to Northern and Southern republicans who sought to take advantage of political power in the South during Reconstruction. | Carpetbaggers, Scalawags | 86 | |
| 5390155931 | The 1868 Democratic campaign motto of Horatio Seymour and Francis Blair was _________________________________________. | This is a White Man's Country. Let White Men Rule. | 87 | |
| 5390158990 | In the first two years of the war most of the fighting took place in the state of _______________________. | Virginia | 88 | |
| 5390165030 | The series of extremely restrictive legislative actions take by some of the early Un-reconstructive southern governments were known as _____________________________. | The Black Codes | 89 | |
| 5390170899 | Under the ____________________ any former slave who failed to sign a yearly labor contract could be arrested on vagrancy charges. | Black Codes | 90 | |
| 5390177360 | The economic policies enacted by the ___________________ increased the size and power of the federal government. | Union | 91 | |
| 5390180790 | The statue known as _____________________________ which sits atop the nation's capital was assembled under the direction of a slave. | The Stature of Freedom | 92 | |
| 5390187756 | _______________________ hoped the Kansas-Nebraska Act would encourage the construction of a transcontinental railroad. | Stephen A. Douglas | 93 | |
| 5390192771 | The declaration of ______________________ and the suspension of _______________________ were Lincoln's attempts to curtail wartime dissent. | Martial Law, the Writ of Habeas Corpus | 94 | |
| 5390197392 | The __________________________ would have prohibited slavery in all territories acquired as a result of the Mexican American War. | Wilmot Proviso | 95 | |
| 5390202530 | Compared to the other offerings based on what little we know about Lincoln's Reconstruction plans they can best be described as ________________________. | extremely lenient | 96 | |
| 5390206217 | The passage of the __________________ Amendment split the feminist movement into two major organizations. | 15th | 97 | |
| 5390209471 | The ____________________ and ______________________ denominations had the largest followings amongst former slaves after the end of the war. | Methodist, Baptist | 98 | |
| 5390213963 | The agricultural system known as _____________________ was supposed to be a compromise between former slaves desire for land and former slave owner's desire for labor. | Sharecropping | 99 |
