History 1301 Mayhew Final Exam

Front 1

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed by Stephen Douglas to promote the building of _________

Back 1

Transcontinental Railroad

Front 2

Prior to the Civil War citizenship was closely linked to _____

Back 2

Race

Front 3

______, formed in 1848, was the first major political party whose charter specifically opposed to slavery

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Free Soil Party

Front 4

The Freedmen's Bureau saw its greatest success in the fields of ______ and _______

Back 4

Education, Health

Front 5

The _____ war marked the first time the U.S. invaded a foreign country

Back 5

Mexican/American

Front 6

Under Abraham Lincoln's preliminary Reconstruction plans only ___ precent of the 1860 electorate would have to take an oath of allegiance in order for a confederate state to be readmitted to the Union

Back 6

10

Front 7

_____ was the author of the essay entitled on Civil Disobedience which opposed the Mexican-American War

Back 7

Henry David Thoreau

Front 8

One stated purpose of General ______'s march from Atlanta to Savannah was to demoralize the South's civilian population

Back 8

Sherman's

Front 9

T/F: ________ the Dred Scott decision was highly criticized throughout the North.

Back 9

True

Front 10

Under the legislation known as _______ Kansas and Nebraska would be permitted to decide the slavery issue via popular sovereignty.

Back 10

Compromise of 1850

Front 11

The ______ system kept many sharecroppers and tenant farmers in a state of constant debt and poverty.

Back 11

Crop-Lien

Front 12

____ became the destination of choice for the migrating Mormons

Back 12

Salt Lake City, Utah

Front 13

T/F: In 1861, when the Union Military commander in Missouri issued orders freeing all slaves in that state Lincoln publicity endorsed the action he even referred to it in his emancipation proclamation

Back 13

False

Front 14

As the newly elected president Lincoln's hesitancy in publicity endorsing abolition was due in part by this desire to keep the _________ in the Union

Back 14

Border States

Front 15

The Republican "free labor" ideology led to arguments by Lincoln and Seward that ____ and ___ were incompatible

Back 15

Free Labor, Slave Labor

Front 16

The ____ would have banned slavery from all lands acquired as a result of the Mexican-American Wae

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Wilmont Proviso

Front 17

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 homestead in the West

Back 17

Dred Scott

Front 18

T/F: Contrary to popular opinion the Union and the Confederacy both enjoyed a level of parity when it came to military manpower

Back 18

False

Front 19

The group that claimed to have rescued the white South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern black control adopted the name ______

Back 19

Redeemers

Front 20

Mormon leader _____ refused to separate church and state

Back 20

Joseph Smith

Front 21

T/F: The Freedmen's Bureau was responsible for arranging passage for former slaves back to Africa

Back 21

False

Front 22

Economically, the ____ led to the creation of nation-state dedicated to national economic development

Back 22

Civil War

Front 23

The January 1848, ______ brought a flood of people to California

Back 23

Gold strike at Sutters Mill, California

Front 24

The ____ Amendment guaranteed the right to vote without regard to race

Back 24

15th

Front 25

The Emancipation Proclamation was only immediately applicable in those areas held by ______

Back 25

The Union Army

Front 26

In the view of _____ his reconstruction plans should include at least limited black suffrage

Back 26

Abraham Lincoln

Front 27

A "Coolie" was a racial epithet in reference to a _______

Back 27

Chinese Worker

Front 28

By the 1860, approximately ______ people has made the trek to Oregon and California

Back 28

300,000

Front 29

The _______ Party was affirmation that antislavery sentiment had spread beyond the abolitionist ranks

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Free Soil Party

Front 30

Jefferson Davis's military strategy was based on the strategic importance of ____ to the world's economy

Back 30

Cotton

Front 31

_____ led the Union forces that captured John Brown and his gang at Harper's Ferry

Back 31

Colonial Robert E. Lee

Front 32

T/F: The Confederate Constitution was modeled after the U.S. Constitution

Back 32

True

Front 33

The 15th amendment guaranteed __________

Back 33

All men the right to vote regardless of race

Front 34

The Battle at ______ was the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War

Back 34

Antietam

Front 35

The ____ Act allowed the federal government to override state and local authorities

Back 35

Fugitive Slave Act

Front 36

Expansion of slavery was not one of the justifications for the westward movement known as _____

Back 36

Manifest Destiny

Front 37

Andrew Johnson vetoed the ______ because he did not believe blacks deserved citizenship

Back 37

1866 Civil Rights Act

Front 38

The abundance of ____ attracted numerous Americans to Texas in the 1820's

Back 38

Land for farming

Front 39

The phrase "Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to _____ border dispute

Back 39

Northern Oregon

Front 40

T/F: Prior to his election as President Lincoln supported returning fugitive slaves to their owners

Back 40

True

Front 41

The ____ Amendment abolished slavery

Back 41

13th

Front 42

The growing American presence in Texas led ______ to demand more autonomy for Texas from Mexican officials

Back 42

Stephan F. Austin

Front 43

For all practical purposes the election of ____ ended the Reconstruction

Back 43

1877

Front 44

The fighting in ____ would make it the bloodiest year of the Civil War

Back 44

1864

Front 45

______ was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Back 45

Stephen A. Douglas

Front 46

Britain outlawed slavery during the decade of the ______

Back 46

1830's

Front 47

The ______ issued by General Sherman confiscated abandoned Plantation lands and divided it amounts the former slaves

Back 47

Special Field Order #15

Front 48

The term _____ refers to the period in which blacks comprised a legislative majority in South Carolina

Back 48

The Prostate State

Front 49

The Crittenden resolution would have extended the ______ line to the west, with: slavery prohibited north of the line and guaranteed south of it

Back 49

Missouri Compromise

Front 50

T/F: Andrew Jackson opposed the annexation of Texas fearing it would upset the balance of power between the slave and Free states

Back 50

True

Front 51

Lincoln wanted for the victory at ____ before releasing his Emancipation Proclamation

Back 51

Antietam

Front 52

The ____ Amendment conferred citizenship on any person born of naturalized in the U.S.

Back 52

14th

Front 53

The Whisky Ring scandal occurred during the ____ administration

Back 53

Ulysses S. Grant

Front 54

The ____ would have authorized the U.S. to seize Cuba from Spain

Back 54

Ostend Manifesto

Front 55

Frederick Douglas saw ____, not as an end, but as a beginning

Back 55

Abolition of Slavery

Front 56

________ would prove to be the least successful goal of the radical republican's reconstruction plans

Back 56

Land Reform

Front 57

The denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants by the ______ Party attracted some voters

Back 57

Know-Nothing

Front 58

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

Back 58

Abraham Lincoln

Front 59

Early on it was determined that the mail aspirations of former slaves was for ______ which would allow them to provide for their families

Back 59

Ownership of Land

Front 60

The National Woman Suffrage Association was founded by ______ and _____

Back 60

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony

Front 61

Transcendentalist _____ was a very vocal opponent of the Mexican American War

Back 61

Henry David Thoreau

Front 62

T/F: Ulysses S. Grant demonstrated a greater understanding of strategy and tactics than any of his predecessors

Back 62

True

Front 63

The _____ and the ______ were the first two ironclad warships to engage in combat

Back 63

USS Monitor and Merrimac (USS Virginia)

Front 64

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

Back 64

General William T. Sherman

Front 65

General ______ was characterized as forever overestimating the enemy's strength and stalling for time

Back 65

George B. McCellan

Front 66

The actions of ______ during the war helped inspire Republicans to believe that emancipation should also include equality before the law

Back 66

Black Soldiers

Front 67

The introduction of the ____ onto the battlefield changed the nature of combat

Back 67

Rifle

Front 68

For former slaves political freedoms meant _____

Back 68

The Right to Vote

Front 69

The Union strategy called _____ involved using the naval blockade to "squeeze" the south into submission

Back 69

Anaconda

Front 70

The Civil War helped to reinforce the concept that _____ also meant that everyone was entitled to fruits of their

Back 70

Definition of Freedom

Front 71

T/F: To most former slaves the concept of freedom was much more than simply the right to vote

Back 71

True

Front 72

______ say himself as the new leader of the Senate after the deaths of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster

Back 72

Stephan A. Douglas

Front 73

To assist in the much needed economic growth southern states helped to finance _______

Back 73

Construction of Railroads

Front 74

At the first battle of _____ local citizens brought picnic lunches to watch the festivities

Back 74

Bull Run

Front 75

_____ is considered to be the author of the Compromise of 1850

Back 75

Henry Clay

Front 76

____ and ____ were the first two black members of the U.S. Senate

Back 76

Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce

Front 77

After 1863, black abolitionist ____ urged northern blacks to enlist in the Union Army and fight for freedom

Back 77

Fredrick Douglas

Front 78

In 1861, ______ was the first Union commander to decree that all slaves in his jurisdiction were freed

Back 78

John C. Fremont

Front 79

Which of the following countries DID NOT go through some sort of popular uprising in 1848

U.S. - Great Britain - France - Russia - Italy

Back 79

Russia

Front 80

In a strange sort of twist, with the ____ law, in the Compromise of 1850, normally states-rights southerners were seem as demanding action an involvement by the federal government

Back 80

Fugitive Slave Law

Front 81

In Longfellow's "The Warning" poem he compared ______ to the biblical character Samson

Back 81

American Slave

Front 82

Lincoln's suspension of the _____ was seen by some as exceeding his constitutional powers

Back 82

Writ of Habeas Corpus

Front 83

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

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14th

Front 84

The Republican practice of reminding the voters that it wad Democrats who had orchestrated the secessionist movement was known as ______

Back 84

Waving the bloody shirt

Front 85

Elizabeth Cady Stanton maintained that _____ required universal suffrage

Back 85

Reconstruction

Front 86

Lack of a ____ political system denied the Confederacy an appreciated opposition

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Opposition Party

Front 87

______ and ____ were the names given to the Northern and Southern republicans who sought to take advantage of political power in the South during Reconstruction

Back 87

Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

Front 88

The 1868 Democratic campaign motto of Horatio Seymour and Francis Bliar was ______

Back 88

"This is a white man's Country. Let white men rule"

Front 89

In the first two years of the war most of the fighting took place in the state of _______

Back 89

Virginia

Front 90

The series of extremely restrictive legislative actions taken by some of the early Un-reconstructive southern governments were known as _____

Back 90

The Black Codes

Front 91

Under the ____ any former slave who failed to sign a yearly labor contract would be arrested on vagrancy charges

Back 91

Black Codes

Front 92

The economic policies enacted by the _____ increased the size and power of the federal government

Back 92

Union

Front 93

The statue known as ____ which sits atop the nation's capitol was assembled under the direction of a slave

Back 93

Statue of Freedom

Front 94

____ hoped the Kansas-Nebraska Act would encourage the construction of a transcontinental railroad

Back 94

Stephan A. Douglas

Front 95

The declaration of ______ and the suspension of ____ were Lincoln's attempts to curtail wartime dissent

Back 95

Martial Law and Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus

Front 96

The ______ would have prohibited slavery in all territories acquired as a result of the Mexican American War

Back 96

Wilmont Proviso

Front 97

Compared to the other offerings based on what little we know about Lincoln's Reconstruction plans they can best be described as ______

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Extremely Lenient

Front 98

The passage of the ___ Amendment split the feminist movement into two major organizations

Back 98

15th

Front 99

The ______ and _____ denominations had the largest followings amongst former slaves after the end of the war

Back 99

Methodist and Baptist

Front 100

The agricultural system known as ______ was supposed to be a compromise between former slave desires for land and former slave owners' desire for labor

Back 100

Sharecropping