AP US History Unit 4 Flashcards

8119725774	In 1836, Texas did not immediately join the United States because	President Andrew Jackson thought that action would add to sectional tensions.	0
8119725775	Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States	agreed to pay millions to Mexico.	1
8119725776	The Wilmot Proviso	prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.	2
8119725777	The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California	along with a strengthened Fugitive Slave Act.	3
8119725778	In the 1850s, the "Young America" movement	supported the expansion of American democracy throughout the world.	4
8119725779	Which of the following statements regarding the Kansas-Nebraska Act is FALSE? A It was sponsored by Henry Clay B It led to the creation of the Republican Party C It created 2 new territories D it explicitly repealed the Missouri Compromise	It was sponsored by Henry Clay	5
8119725780	The ideology of Free-Soil included	opposition to the expansion of slavery.	6
8119725781	The Supreme Court held in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)	the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional	7
8119725782	Following John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, many southerners assumed	the North was dominated by people intent on destroying the South	8
8119725783	In the election of 1860,	white southerners concluded that their position in the Union was hopeless.	9
8119725784	At the start of the Civil War, the	North had a much more substantial economy.	10
8119725785	The Union's national draft law	resulted in murderous attacks in NYC against free blacks	11
8119725786	The Confiscation Act of 1861	declared that slaves used by Confederate states in the war effort were free.	12
8119725787	Politically, the Confederate constitution	was almost identical in many respects to the Constitution of the United States.	13
8119725788	Which of the following statements about George B McClellan is FALSE?	he originally served as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia	14
8119725789	In naval warfare during the Civil War,	both the Union and Confederate militaries developed ironclads.	15
8119725790	In 1861, the so-called Trent affair	created an international diplomatic crisis for Abraham Lincoln.	16
8119725791	The Battle of Vicksburg in 1863	allowed the North to split the Confederacy in two.	17
8119725792	The Battle of Gettysburg	represented the last time Confederate forces seriously threatened Union territory.	18
8119725793	In 1864, General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea"	was designed in part to demoralize Southerners.	19
8119725794	As president, Andrew Johnson	offered amnesty to southerners who pledged their loyalty to the US	20
8119725795	The Fourteenth Amendment	gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.	21
8119725796	During reconstruction, southern African American officeholders	underrepresented the total number of blacks living in the South	22
8119725797	The Panic of 1873	was the nation's worst economic depression to that time.	23
8119725798	The "redeemed" governments of the South	saw an end to occupation by federal troops	24
8119725799	Congressional Reconstruction might have been more effective if	the federal government had better enforced the laws designed to assist blacks	25
8119725800	Advocates of the "New South"	promoted southern industry and railroad development.	26
8119725801	The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that	racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations."	27
8119725802	Jim Crow Laws	imposed a system of state-supported segregation	28
8119725803	In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B Wells devoted her writing to attacking	the crime of lynching	29