The presidential election of 1844 - ANSWER-was won by a Democrat.
In the 1820s and 1830s, the government of Mexico - ANSWER-moved from favoring to
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Between 1840 and 1860, most migrants traveling west on the overland trails - ANSWER-found the journey to be a very collective experience
In 1836, Texas did not immediately join the United States, in part because - ANSWER-President Andrew Jackson thought it would add to sectional tensions
President James K. Polk - ANSWER-helped his candidacy for office by expressing a desire to re-annex Texas
The key to victory for the United States in the Mexican War was - ANSWER-Winfield Scott's seizure of Mexico City
During the Mexican War, - ANSWER-American settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the United States navy
Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States - ANSWER-agreed to pay millions to Mexico
The Wilmot Proviso - ANSWER-prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico
In 1844, President James K. Polk supported the acquisition of - ANSWER-Oregon and Texas
In the 1850s, in an effort to undercut the Fugitive Slave Act, some norther states - ANSWER-passed laws preventing deportation of fugitive slaves
In the 1840s, regional critics of President James K. Polk claimed his policies favored the - ANSWER-South
In the 1860 elections, the political party most deeply divided over slavery was the - ANSWER-Democratic Party
In the election of 1852, - ANSWER-the Free-Soil Party gained strength
In the 1850s, the "Young America" movement - ANSWER-supported the expansion of American democracy throughout the world
In the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates, - ANSWER-Lincoln argued slavery was a threat to the growth of white free labor
In The Pro-Slavery Argument (1837), John C. Calhoun stated that slavery was - ANSWER-a "positive good"
In 1861, the so-called Trent affair - ANSWER-created an international diplomatic crisis for Abraham Lincoln
During the Civil War, "greenbacks" issued by the federal government - ANSWER-fluctuated in value depending on the fortunes of the Northern armies
In the Battle of Gettysburg, in order to reach dug-in Union forces, General George Pickett's division had to cross - ANSWER-open country
Which of the following is true of Jefferson Davis's leadership? - ANSWER-Davis spent more time paying strict adherence to legal and constitutional requirements than on providing genuine national leadership
The most important Union military commander was - ANSWER-Abraham Lincoln
At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves that emerged from bondage was - ANSWER-about 3.5 million
In 1865, Southern blacks defined "freedom" as - ANSWER-independence from white control
During the Johnson administration, the United States acquired - ANSWER-Alaska
In the South, the crop-lien system along with the burdensome credit system - ANSWER-encouraged the planting of cash crops
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, - ANSWER-involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration
After the Civil War, most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from - ANSWER-country stores
The Panic of 1873 - ANSWER-was the nation's worst economic depression to that time.
During Reconstruction, regarding land ownership in the South - ANSWER-ownership by whites declined, while ownership by blacks increased
President Abraham Lincoln's "10 percent" plan for the South referred to the - ANSWER-number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government
During Reconstruction, the term "scalawags" referred to - ANSWER-Southern white Republicans
The Tenure of Office Act - ANSWER-was designed to limit President Andrew Johnson's authority
Which of the following statements about the end of Reconstruction is accurate? - ANSWER-Many white Southern leaders sympathized with Republican economic policies in the South but could not publicly support them
The Wade-Davis Bill - ANSWER-sought to bring about the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates
Jim Crow laws - ANSWER-imposed a system of state-supported segregation
After Reconstruction, political power under southern "Redeemers" - ANSWER-was very often restricted and conservative
In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington - ANSWER-called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation
Advocates of the "New South" - ANSWER-promoted southern industry and railroad development
Among other positions, Booker T. Washington - ANSWER-favored industrial over classical education
Missouri Compromise of 1820 - ANSWER-Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820)
Who did James K. Polk defeat in the 1844 election? - ANSWER-Henry Clay
Who coined the term Manifest Destiny in 1845? - ANSWER-John O'Sullivan
What state was an independent republic from 1836 to 1845? - ANSWER-Texas
What treaty ended the Mexican-American War and granted the U.S. Texas, California, and New Mexico territories. U.S. paid Mexico $15 million for reparations? - ANSWER-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Who suggested that slavery could not extend into new territories acquired from Mexico? - ANSWER-Wilmot Proviso
Though gold was first found in California in 1848, the stream of settlers who came later became known as - ANSWER-49ers
Northerners and southerners had absolutely nothing in common by the 1850s. - ANSWER-False
Free labor is the same thing as slavery. - ANSWER-False
The Compromise of 1850 declared that California would be admitted as a free state. - ANSWER-True
The Compromise of 1850 also said the institution of slavery would be abolished in Washington, D.C. - ANSWER-False
Northerners were infuriated by the tougher Fugitive Slave Act. - ANSWER-True
The Republican Party agreed that prohibiting the extension of slavery would be their main, unifying platform. - ANSWER-True
President of the U.S. from 1844 to 1848 who pushed an explicitly expansionist policy. - ANSWER-James K. Polk
The idea that Americans are destined to spread across the continent. - ANSWER-Manifest Destiny
Conflict between U.S. and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 from which the United States acquired millions of acres of land. - ANSWER-Mexican-American War
The form of labor where the laborer is a free person who gets paid wages for their work. - ANSWER-Free labor
The concept that individual states can decide whether they will permit slavery or not. - ANSWER-Popular sovereignty
An Act that provided strict measures for the capture and return of runaway slaves. - ANSWER-Fugitive Slave Act
The nickname for Kansas in the mid-1850s because pro-slavery and pro-free labor forces were in violent conflicts. - ANSWER-Bleeding Kansas
President during the Civil War - ANSWER-Abraham Lincoln
First state to secede from the Union - ANSWER-South Carolina
Charleston fort that Confederates bombarded in April of 1861 - ANSWER-Fort Sumter
Had more material advantages during the Civil War - ANSWER-The Union
Was fighting on their own turf during the Civil War - ANSWER-The Confederacy
The military strategy to strangle Confederate forces - ANSWER-Anaconda Plan
Used the Civil War as an opportunity to expand the federal government - ANSWER-Republicans
Demonstrated violent resistance to Lincoln's draft law - ANSWER-New York Draft Riots
was a very unpopular and controversial part of the Confederacy's draft policy - ANSWER-"twenty negro rule"
was the leaderof the US Sanitary Comission - ANSWER-Dorothea Dix
Only freed the slaves in seceded Confederate territories, not the Border states(didn't want to upset them), The North appeared to be taking a stand against slavery, making Britain side with them. - ANSWER-Emancipation Proclamation
The Massachusetts 54th Regiment was led by - ANSWER-Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
The Civil War resulted in how many total Americans dead? - ANSWER-620,000
The costly Union victory to take place in September of 1862 in Maryland was the battle at - ANSWER-Antietam
These two battles saw Confederate forces surrender on the same day. - ANSWER-Vicksburg and Gettysburg
The famous March to the Sea was led by - ANSWER-William Tecumseh Sherman
General Robert E. Lee surrendered - ANSWER-April, 1865
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln - ANSWER-John Wilkes Booth
The elected president of the Confederacy - ANSWER-Jefferson Davis
The Virginian Confederate General who was respected by both Union and Confederate soldiers - ANSWER-Robert E. Lee
The hard-drinking, brash, and destructive Union General who eventually accepted Lee's surrender - ANSWER-Ulysses S. Grant
About how much money did the Civil War? - ANSWER-$10 Billion
Who was Abraham Lincoln's presidential successor? - ANSWER-Andrew Johnson
The group of Republicans who wanted to implement the most radical Reconstruction plan was known as - ANSWER-Radical Republicans
This amendment officially ended slavery and involuntary servitude - ANSWER-13th
This amendment gave free black men equal protection under the law - ANSWER-14th
Andrew Johnson was impeached because he violated what Act? - ANSWER-Tenure of Office Act
There were 2.4 million slaves freed after the Civil War - ANSWER-False
Sharecropping meant that free blacks owned their own land - ANSWER-False
Most African Americans embraced education and Christianity during Reconstruction - ANSWER-True
African American held important political positions immediately after the Civil War - ANSWER-True
Black codes were secret code words used for dangerous freed blacks - ANSWER-False
The federal government did nothing to stop the Ku Klux Klan - ANSWER-False
The brief period in 1865 when Andrew Johnson alone determined Reconstruction policy. - ANSWER-Presidential Reconstruction
Congressmen who urged punishment and radical reconstruction of the South. - ANSWER-Radical Republicans
Gave all U.S. born people citizenship, including property rights and equal protection under the law. - ANSWER-14th
Declared that Andrew Johnson could not fire a Cabinet member without the Senate's permission. - ANSWER-Tenure of Office Act
The system of labor where a worker would rent the land to cultivate crops, giving their landlord a share of the crop as payment. - ANSWER-Sharecropping
Southerners who supported Reconstruction - ANSWER-Scalawags
Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction were called - ANSWER-Carpetbaggers
Before the early 1850s, Americans who traveled west on the overland trails were generally - ANSWER-from the eastern seaboard states
In the 1840s, critics of territorial expansion by the US - ANSWER-warned it would increase the controversy over slavery
When President Polk received the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, he - ANSWER-angrily claimed that Trist had violated his instructions
The Mexican War resulted in large part from - ANSWER-the United States provoking Mexico to fight.
The 1853 Gadsden Purchase - ANSWER-advanced the cause of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad.
Following John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, many southerners were convinced that - ANSWER-Brown had been given support by the Republican Party
In the election 1860, - ANSWER-white southerners concluded that their position in the Union was hopeless.
Dred Scott v. Sanford - ANSWER-1857 Supreme Court decision that stated slaves were not citizens: slaves were property no matter where they were living and the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
The 1856 beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the US Senate - ANSWER-was strongly condemned in the South
Prior to becoming president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis had - ANSWER-been regarded as a moderate on secession.
Confiscation Act of 1861 - ANSWER-declared that slaves used by Confederate states in the war effort were free.
At the start of the Civil War, the - ANSWER-North had more advanced industrial and transportation systems
General Grant's Union forces attacked General Lee's Confederate forces in the month-long - ANSWER-Battle of Gettysburg
In 1865, Southern whites defined "freedom" as - ANSWER-controlling their future without Northern interference.
Alabama Claims - ANSWER-involved complaints by the United States against England.
Schuyler Colfax, Grant's vice president, - ANSWER-was involved in a stock-fixing scandal
As Republicans planned for Reconstruction, - ANSWER-Radicals sought a range of punishments for white Southerners.
As president, Andrew Johnson - ANSWER-offered amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.
In 1867, congressional plans for Reconstruction - ANSWER-required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males.
In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking - ANSWER-the crime of lynching
In the South during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century, - ANSWER-the southern share of national manufacturing doubled [Show Less]