Test

Question 1

The phrase “black belt” refers to this in the South.

Answer 1

fertile soil of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi

Question 2

In 1850, what percentage of all slaves was engaged in cotton growing?

Answer 2

55 percent

Question 3

One of the most noteworthy features of the slave community in the American South was ____________.

Answer 3

the expanded kinship network that developed within it

Question 4

Denmark Vesey was to South Carolina as Nat Turner was to _____________

Answer 4

Virginia

Question 5

The first slave rebel to actually kill a large number of white people was ____________

Answer 5

Nat Turner

Question 6

One of the most common violations of the southern paternalistic code of behavior was _____________.

Answer 6

sexual abuse of female slaves by their masters

Question 7

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the American economy benefitted greatly from___________.

Answer 7

the connection between southern slavery and northern slavery

Question 8

George Fitzhugh defended slavery on the grounds that __________.

Answer 8

slaves were better off than northern “wage slaves”

Question 9

Southern apologists for slavery linked slave uprisings to ___________.

Answer 9

northern antislavery opinion

Question 10

In 1850, the majority of slaves were engaged in _________ cultivation .

Answer 10

cotton

Question 11

What did the British dub “the American system of manufacturers?”

Answer 11

interchangeable parts

Question 12

Many of the first strikes in American labor history were led by ____________.

Answer 12

women workers

Question 13

What was the simplest and quickest way for America to industrialize in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?

Answer 13

copy British technology

Question 14

Why was the National Road unsatisfactory to farmers in a commercial sense?

Answer 14

Shipments of bulky goods like grain were too slow and expensive by road.

Question 15

Migrants of _________ origin accounted for at least 40 percent of the population of the Yankee West.

Answer 15

New England.

Question 16

The religion that captured the attention of the new middle class in the early 1800s incorporated an __________.

Answer 16

enthusiastic evangelistic approach to religious practice.

Question 17

In both rural and urban settings, working families were ___________

Answer 17

organized along strictly patriarchal lines

Question 18

What city benefitted the most from the opening of the Erie Canal?

Answer 18

New York

Question 19

As an early 1800s Cincinnati merchant, you were most likely yo be financing ___________.

Answer 19

steamboat construction

Question 20

For what group was the putting-out system the most beneficial?

Answer 20

farm families

Question 21

After Mexico became independent from Spain it relied exclusionary policies in ____________

Answer 21

Santa Fe and Texas that had been put in place by the Spanish government

Question 22

Claiming the Rio Grande rather Than the Nueces River as the boundary of Texas gave the United States a claim to ______________

Answer 22

New Mexico and parts of Colorado

Question 23

To whom was John O’Sullivan referring to when he spoke of bringing democracy to “backwards people”?

Answer 23

Indians and Mexicans

Question 24

Like other California immigrants, most of the Chinese _____________

Answer 24

intended to return home as soon as they made money

Question 25

In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot, a Pennsylvania Democrat, proposed that slavery be _____________

Answer 25

banned from any territory acquired from Mexico

Question 26

The Lewis and Clark Expedition was financed by ________

Answer 26

the federal government

Question 27

As commander-in-chief during the war, James K. Polk defined the role of president by coordinating both ____________

Answer 27

civilian and military goals and needs

Question 28

During the Mexican-American war, northern Whigs began to characterize the war as a(n) _________

Answer 28

southern conspiracy to expand slavery

Question 29

The controversy over the borders of Oregon was resolves by ______________

Answer 29

a treaty extending the previous boundary line

Question 30

Prior to the 1830s, the dominant industry in the Oregon Territory was ___________

Answer 30

the fur trade

Question 31

In the election of 1852, both parties _____________

Answer 31

struggled to choose candidates

Question 32

South Carolina seceded from the Union in response to ___________

Answer 32

the election of Abraham Lincoln

Question 33

While the South was shocked by Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, it was even more shocked by _______________

Answer 33

widespread northern mourning for Brown's death.

Question 34

Much of the nation responded to the passage of the Compromise of 1850 with ____________

Answer 34

jubilation and relief

Question 35

In opposing the Lecompton constitution, Douglas was consistent with his principle of ____________

Answer 35

popular sovereignty

Question 36

Southern political strategies of the 1850s, depended on ____________

Answer 36

maintaining supremacy in the U.S. Senate

Question 37

The Dred Scott decision held that ____________

Answer 37

blacks, whether slave or free, were not citizens and could not sue in a court of law.

Question 38

The election of 1848 was a warning that ____________

Answer 38

political parties no longer represented a national political community.

Question 39

The only part of the Compromise of 1850 strongly supported by the South was ___________.

Answer 39

the enactment of a Fugitive Slave Law

Question 40

When Kansas applied for statehood, President James Buchanan endorsed _____________

Answer 40

the pro-slavery constitution.

Question 41

After the election of 1852, ____________

Answer 41

the Whigs never again fielded a national presidential candidate

Question 42

The election of 1856 was __________

Answer 42

two separate contests for the North and South.

Question 43

The Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred because Lincoln ran against Douglas for _______________

Answer 43

U.S. senator from Illinois

Question 44

The Republican strategy in 1860 was to ____________

Answer 44

focus entirely on the free states.

Question 45

The vast new territories gained in the Mexican-American War ____________

Answer 45

provoked a new debate over the issue of slavery in the territories

Question 46

McClellan's 1862, 1862 Peninsular campaign failed largely because __________

Answer 46

McClellan avoided battle in hopes of forcing a Confederate surrender

Question 47

"Government girls" referred to women who were ___________

Answer 47

workers in the Confederate bureaucracy

Question 48

The Battle of Glorieta Pass was significant for preventing Confederate control of _____________

Answer 48

the Trans-Mississippi West

Question 49

The population of which of these states was deeply divided over support for the Union?

Answer 49

Maryland

Question 50

The Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts protested the discrimination and unequal pay in the army by ____________

Answer 50

refusing pay until they were treated equally

Question 51

The notorious Copperhead exiled to the South by Lincoln was __________-

Answer 51

Clement Vallandigham

Question 52

Lincoln kept Maryland in the Union with ____________

Answer 52

military force and the arrests of pro-Confederate officials

Question 53

During the war, Lincoln played a role most similar to this earlier presidents'.

Answer 53

Polk

Question 54

Sherman's march to Savannah was primarily designed to ___________

Answer 54

cut off Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama from the rest of the Confederacy

Question 55

The Homestead Act gave _______________

Answer 55

160 acres of public land to any citizen who would improve it .

Question 56

During the Civil War, what problem did people on the home front face in both the North and the South?

Answer 56

inflation

Question 57

As the war dragged on, many in both the North and the South began to see it as ____________

Answer 57

"a rich man's war but a poor man's fight"

Question 58

Lincoln's main diplomatic aim was to keep __________

Answer 58

England and France from supporting the Confederacy

Question 59

The Confederate draft law exempted ___________

Answer 59

owners of twenty or more slaves

Question 60

The second Confederate draft was controversial because _____________

Answer 60

it included blacks.

Question 61

The Radical Republicans intended the Tenure of Office Act to limit the powers of __________

Answer 61

President Johnson

Question 62

Andrew Johnson was the only ____________

Answer 62

Confederate state Senator to remain loyal to the Union

Question 63

By the late 1860s, the dominant form of agricultural labor for black Southerners was as ____________

Answer 63

sharecroppers

Question 64

In the aftermath of emancipation, many African American women wanted to______________

Answer 64

spend more time caring for their children

Question 65

The First Reconstruction Act divided the South into five ____________

Answer 65

military districts

Question 66

Rather than "reconstruction," Andrew Johnson referred to his plan as a ____________ of the Union.

Answer 66

restoration.

Question 67

Tougaloo, Hampton, and Fisk are examples of _____________

Answer 67

black teaching colleges founded after the Civil War.

Question 68

Grant was nominated by the Republicans in 1868 because of his ____________

Answer 68

popularity as a war hero.

Question 69

What was the consuming passion of most white Southerners during the Reconstruction years?

Answer 69

the reestablishment of the racial hierarchy

Question 70

Which of these was true of the South in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War?

Answer 70

Much of the best agricultural land had been laid waste.

Question 71

White soldiers who remained in the South after the war were derisively called __________

Answer 71

carpetbaggers

Question 72

At the time of the First Reconstruction Act, which of these states had a black electoral majority?

Answer 72

South Carolina

Question 73

When Democrats regained control of Southern states after 1869, they considered these states to have been _________

Answer 73

redeemed

Question 74

Fearful that their 1866 Civil Rights Act might be declared unconstitutional, the Radical Republicans gained ____________

Answer 74

passage of the Fourteenth Amendment

Question 75

The premise behind Thaddeus Stevens's view of Reconstruction was that the South should be ___________.

Answer 75

populated with black and white yeoman.