APUSH Deck 3

Question 1

1. Which of the following statements describes the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Answer 1

d. The treaty purchased more than one-third of Mexico’s territory for a mere $15
million.

Question 2

2. Americans who lined up behind the free-soil cause in the late 1840s

Answer 2

c. declared that slavery threatened American republicanism by undermining family
farms.

Question 3

3. Why did Democratic presidential candidate Lewis Cass proposed the idea of squatter sovereignty in
   1848?

Answer 3

b. Cass hoped the plan would maintain the unity of the contentious Democratic Party.

Question 4

4. Who of the following people is correctly matched to his position on the extension of slavery during the debate over the admission of California into the Union in 1850?

Answer 4

c. Lewis Cass—supported popular sovereignty to address the slavery issue

Question 5

5. Which of the following policies was implemented as part of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 5

b. Passage of a new Fugitive Slave Act

Question 6

6. During the 1840s and 1850s, Roman Catholic churches in the United States were known for

Answer 6

a. providing community services and a sense of group identity for most Irish and many German immigrants.

Question 7

7. Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe pen her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was published in 1852?

Answer 7

d. Stowe sought to depict slavery as degrading, especially to slave women.

Question 8

8. Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 8

b. It sparked an unprecedented discussion about race and slavery in the United States and abroad.

Question 9

9. The northern states responded to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act by sponsoring

Answer 9

d. personal-liberty laws.

Question 10

10. Which of the following developments occurred during the 1852 presidential campaign?

Answer 10

b. Democrats nominated Franklin Pierce as a compromise candidate because he was a congenial man with southern sympathies.

Question 11

11. During the 1850s, proslavery American expansionists attempted to acquire which of the following regions?

Answer 11

c. Cuba

Question 12

12. Which of the following statements describes the American Party, or Know-Nothings, that emerged in the North in the 1850s?

Answer 12

a. The American Party originated in anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic societies of
the 1840s.

Question 13

13. How did the Franklin Pierce administration approach the settlement and organization of the Kansas Territory in 1854 and 1855?

Answer 13

b. Pierce officially favored the legitimacy of the proslavery legislature in Lecompton.

Question 14

14. The 1857 Dred Scott decision had which of the following consequences?

Answer 14

b. The decision persuaded many Republicans that the Supreme Court and President Buchanan were part of the “slave power” conspiracy.

Question 15

15. The creation of the Republican Party, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the negation of the Missouri Compromise were all consequences of the

Answer 15

c. Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Question 16

16. In 1858, in response to Abraham Lincoln’s assertions about slavery in the territories, Stephen Douglas

Answer 16

d. asserted that settlers could exclude slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation to protect it.

Question 17

17. Why did the Republican Party nominate Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in 1860?

Answer 17

b. He had already defeated Stephen A. Douglas in the senatorial election in 1858.

Question 18

18. Which statement describes why John Brown’s 1859 raid exacerbated the growing divide in the United States on the slavery issue?

Answer 18

a. To many slave owners, it showed the lengths to which abolitionists would go to
end slavery.

Question 19

19. Which of the following aided the new Republican Party to win the presidency in 1860?

Answer 19

c. The split in the Democratic Party into northern and southern factions

Question 20

20. The movement toward secession in the winter of 1860–1861 proceeded the most rapidly in the

Answer 20

c. Deep South.

Question 21

21. At which of the following points did the states of the Lower South secede and organize a provisional government of the Confederate States of America headed by Jefferson Davis?

Answer 21

d. Before Buchanan left the White House and Lincoln was inaugurated

Question 22

22. President Buchanan responded to the secession crisis by

Answer 22

d. declaring secession illegal but claiming that the federal government had no power to reverse it.

Question 23

23. Which of the following describes the Crittenden Compromise?

Answer 23

d. The plan was a failed attempt to prevent secession.

Question 24

24. Which of the following border states quickly joined the Confederacy in 1861?

Answer 24

c. Tennessee

Question 25

25. Why did president-elect Lincoln not support the Crittenden Compromise and possibly avoid civil war?

Answer 25

b. The president-elect would not compromise on the issue of slavery in the territories.

Question 26

26. What was the Confederacy seeking to achieve with the war in 1861?

Answer 26

a. Permanent independence and “to be let alone”

Question 27

27. Which of the following describes the outcome of the first Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861?

Answer 27

d. Union troops panicked during a Confederate counterattack and retreated to Washington.

Question 28

28. Why did Robert E. Lee invaded Maryland in August and September 1862?

Answer 28

b. He hoped that a victory over Union forces would humiliate Lincoln’s government.

Question 29

29. Why did President Lincoln decide to suspend habeas corpus during the Civil War?

Answer 29

c. He believed it would stop disloyal activities, such as protests against the draft.

Question 30

30. How did the Confederacy, with its agricultural economy, acquire the products and equipment it needed to supply its army?

Answer 30

c. Profits from cotton exports provided funds to purchase imported products.

Question 31

31. Which of the following statements describes the movement toward emancipation within the Republican Party in 1862?

Answer 31

c. Radical Republicans in Congress pushed moderates toward embracing their agenda of total abolition.

Question 32

32. The Emancipation Proclamation stated that

Answer 32

a. slaves in the rebel states would be freed.

Question 33

33. Which of the following describes the historical significance of the September 1862 Battle of Antietam?

Answer 33

b. The result of the battle allowed Lincoln to declare all slaves nationwide free.

Question 34

34. Which lists the early Civil War battles in correct chronological order, starting with the earliest?

Answer 34

d. First Manassas (Bull Run); Fort Donelson; Shiloh; Antietam

Question 35

35. The Enrollment Act of 1863

Answer 35

a. led to riots in New York City.

Question 36

36. Which of the following was the major cause of death for Civil War soldiers?

Answer 36

b. Disease and infection

Question 37

37. How did the Union raise money to pay for most of its Civil War costs?

Answer 37

b. By issuing interest-paying treasury bonds

Question 38

38. Which of the following constituted a critical problem for the Confederacy during the Civil War?

Answer 38

c. High levels of inflation

Question 39

39. Which of the following characterizes government economic and political decisions during the Civil War?

Answer 39

b. Both governments utilized their national power to make decisions.

Question 40

40. Which pair of battles marked the turning point in the Civil War?

Answer 40

b. Vicksburg and Gettysburg

Question 41

41. Which of the following scenarios unfolded at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863?

Answer 41

a. Pickett’s charge at the heart of the Union line was a costly blunder that forced a Confederate retreat.

Question 42

42. Which of the following resulted from the Union victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg in 1863?

Answer 42

c. Republicans swept the 1863 elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York

Question 43

43. Why was the ship Alabama instrumental to the Confederate war effort?

Answer 43

a. The warship captured or sank more than one hundred Union merchant ships.

Question 44

44. Why was the South unable to convince England to provide it with more support during the Civil war?

Answer 44

a. England needed Union wheat more than the South’s cotton.

Question 45

45. Which of the following statements characterizes the role played by African Americans in the Civil War?

Answer 45

b. African Americans served in segregated regiments and fought courageously.

Question 46

46. After being placed in charge of all Union armies in 1864, General Grant and Abraham Lincoln crafted which of the following new military strategies?

Answer 46

c. An attack of every major Confederate army simultaneously

Question 47

47. Who did Abraham Lincoln choose as his running mate in 1864?

Answer 47

b. Andrew Johnson

Question 48

48. How did Democrats hope to win the 1864 presidential election?

Answer 48

d. Through raising concerns about racial miscegenation

Question 49

49. Approximately how many people died in the Civil War?

Answer 49

b. 600,000

Question 50

50. Which of the following describes the South after the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865?

Answer 50

a. Many of the South’s factories, railroads, and cities lay in ruins.