U.S History Final

During what year did the civil war take place?

During what year did the civil war take place?

1861-1865

Which of the following is true regarding the Emancipation Proclamation issued by Lincoln?

a. it freed enslaved people in Confederate states

b. it freed enslaved people in border states

c. it transformed the purpose of the war towards ending slavery

d. it allowed free black men to enlist and fight in the union war

e. all of the above

f. a c and d

F.

How many states seceded from the U.S and formed the Confederate States of America?

11

During the Civil War, the ( ) had the advantage of passion and motivation for the cause for which they were fighting.

Confederacy

True or False: Most battles of the U.S Civil War occurred in Northern States.

False

Why is the battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?

It made the South give up hope of being able to invade the North.

During the Civil War, enslaved people did which of the following to protest slavery?

-destroyed plantation property

-neglected livestock

-ran away to free states

-refused to work

Which health conditions were very common among soldiers during the war?

-diarrhea

-body lice

-dysentery

True or false? The Union strategy to control the Southern portion of the Mississippi river resulted in the Confederacy losing its capital of Vicksburg, Virginia.

False

The Civil War began at ( ) and ended with General Lee surrendering to General Grant at ( )

Fort Sumter; Appomattox

Historians estimate that roughly ( ) people died because of the Civil War

700,000

True of false? The Confederate’s strategy at the start of the war included invading the north if an opportunity arose.

True

Which of the following permanently abolished slavery throughout every state in the U.S?

The 13th Amendment

True or false? The first state to secede from the Union was Tennesse.

False

The battle of Gettysburg was not:

a. the last time the South invaded the North

b. a battle with heavily causalities on both sides

c. a devastating defeat for the Confederates

d. the battle that split the Confederacy in two

D.

African American Union soliders experienced a higher death rate during the Civil War due to…

a. being placed in positions on the frontlines of a battle

b. being executed if caught by the enemy

c. being given duties in garrisons where they contracted diseases and died

d. not being given the necessary vaccinations

A, B, and D

True or false? During the Civil War, some people in the Confederacy smuggled goods like cotton into the north in exchange for other goods.

True

At the end of the Civil War, General Lee’s family was acquired by the U.S Government and turned into a what?

A cemetery for the burial of dead Union soldiers.

Which of the following was not a factor that led to the defeat of the Confederacy?

a. Confederate soldiers deserted the armies to go home and take care of their families.

b. the inability of members of the Confederate government to work together to bring about victory

c. the unwillingness of southern farmers and plantation owners to plant more edible crops to feed southern citizens.

d. some Confederate troops deserted the army and fled to fight with Union forces.

e. the Confederate troops had no desire to continue fighting and fled to western territories.

E.

During the Civil War, the ( ) had skilled military leaders and a well-trained militia.

Confederacy

True or false? New weaponry used for the first time in the Civil War included the use of machine guns, tanks, and rifles.

False

During the Civil War, what was the definition of a border state?

A state where slavery is legal but chose not to secede from the Union.

In the Civil War, what was the main cause of death among soldiers?

Diseases.

True or false? During the Civil War, the southern economy struggled because there was a shortage of laborers and wages did not keep up as prices increased.

False

Which of the following was inaccurate regarding the battle of Vicksburg?

a. Confederate defeat here made General Lee give up hope of being able to invade the North.

b. it was a battle that took place over 40+days in which General Grant lay siege to the city, shelling it with canon fire

c. over time, the supplies and food of Confederate forces ran low

d. the Union victory at this battle occurred at the same time of the Union victory a at Gettysburg

e. it was one of the last cities on the Mississippi river to be captured by the Union forces in their effort to control the entire river.

A.

One component of the Union strategy during the war was to capture the Confederate capitol of:

Richmond, Virginia

The jobs of the U.S Sanitary Commission during the civil war was too:

a. recruit nurses

b. recruit soldiers

c. recruit black men to fight for the Union

d. improve the hygienic conditions for soldiers

A and D

True or false? When Confederate troops surrendered at the conclusion of the war, Union generals gave reasonable terms, allowing them to keep their horses and gave them rations.

True

While ( ) was the president of the U.S.A, ( ) was the president of the Confederacy.

Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis

True or false? Soldiers who fought in the Civil War expericened great trauma and had to cope with scars from the war.

True

In the Civil War, the Union adopted a ( ) strategy, while the Confederacy’s was more ( )

offensive; defensive

All of the following were border states except:

a. Maryland

b. Kentucky

c. Missouri

d. Iowa

e. West Virginia

f. Delaware

D.

This person recruited nurses for the Union during the Civil War

Dorothea Dix

True or false? Lee Harvey Oswald shot Lincoln just five days after the Confederacy surrendered to the Union

False

During the Civil War, the Union had more:

a. railroad lines

b. factories

c. civilians

d. edible crops

All of the above

Used by the Union generals in the Civil War, the strategy of total warfare involved:

taking and destroying the property of your enemy in order to crush their will

In the Civil War, soliders on both sides when not actively fighting, spent their time doing:

a. duties

b. drills

c. diversion

All of the above

True or false? Generals Grant and Sherman’s victories in 1864 helped to secure support for Lincoln’s re-election.

True

Which of the following was a component of the Compromise of 1850?

a. California entered the Union as a free state

b. the slave trade was outlawed in Washington DC

c. laws regarding the returning of escaped enslaved people

d. a border dispute between Texas and New Mexico was established

e. The New Mexico and Utah territories were established; each with popular sovereignty

f. the Kansas territory was established

A, B, C, D, and E

What is the correct order of the U.S presidents leading up to the Civil War

Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln

Under the idea of popular sovereignty, which of the following groups had the power to determine whether slavery was allowed in a territory?

The residents of the territory

Which of the following is not a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

a. violence breaking out in the Kansas and Nebraska territories

b. a stricter fugitive trade act

c. the repeal of the Missouri Compromise line

d. people rushing to settle in the Kansas and Nebraska territories

B.

Which of the following does not reflect Lincoln’s view on slavery?

a. slavery was an immoral system

b. slavery would only stop spreading through legislation

c. slavery would slowly fade away and come to disuse on its own

d. slavery was a system based on greed

C.

This president supported the pro-slavery state constitution adopted in Lecompton, Kansas, which led to the further divide of the Democratic party and the nation.

James Buchanan

What political party, established in the 1850’s, was anti-immigrant and anti-catholic.

Know-Nothing (American) Party

Which of the following was a main cause or lesser factor that contributed to southern state recession and the start of the Civil War?

a. Abraham Lincoln elected

b. Sectional differences between north and south

c. the debate over slavery

d. the debate between state’s rights and the federal government

e. the rise in popularity of the Abolition movement

All of the above.

True or false? Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, convinced many Americans to support the Temperance movement

False

True or false? The Free-soil party was opposed to slavery being extended into wester territories.

True

True or false? John Brown was a radical abolitionist who murdered proslavery supporters in Kansas.

True

True or false? Though there were various factors that contributed to southern states seceding from the union, the main cause of the war was slavery.

True

True or false? In the 1850s, many northern states passed personal liberty laws aimed at assisting runaway enslaved people.

True

True or false? Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1858

False

True or false? The main issue of contention with California entering the union as a state was that the territory would have a higher population of Chinese immigrants than native born Americans.

False

True or false? Many historians agree that the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 effectively set the stage for the Civil War.

True

The Treaty of 1846

allowed for the splitting of the Oegan territory between the U.S and Britain

When did the Mexican American war occur?

1846-1848

Why did the Mexican government want Americans to settle in Texas?

To provide protection from Native American attacks

How does President Polk provoke war with Mexico in the 1840s?

He sent U.S troops to the disputed border region of Texas and ordered them to block the Rio Grande river

What is the correct order of presidents from the 1820s-40s?

Jackson, van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor

In reaction to the fast settlement of Texas, why did the Mexican government repeal the Mexican Constitution?

To centralize power under the Mexican government’s authority and strip Texas of their rights.

Americans who lived in the ( ) states wanted to go to war with Mexico, whereas Americans against it lived in the ( ) state.

southern; northern

Slave codes restricted blacks from what?

a. seek an education

b. testify in court

c. own property or guns

d. take part in religious activites

e. assemble in groups

all of the above

Which of the following was not an effect of the Mexican American war?

a. The U.S gained a large amount of land and fulfilled manifest destiny

b. The relationship between the U.S and New Mexico worsened, as well as other Latin America countries.

c. Future civil war Gen. Grant and Lee gained military experience

d. questions lingered about whether slavery would spread to the territories won from Mexico

e. the U.S gained the Oregan territory

E.

In the early to mid 1800s, new arguments provided to support slavery included:

a. a justification of slavery because it was referenced in the Bible

b.

This person was instrumental in recruiting Americans to settle in Texas, and he later encouraged them to rebel against the Mexican government.

Stephen Austin

The term Cult of Domesticity refers to:

a belief that woman’s focus should be on the home and the family

Which of the following events occurred first:

a. The Gadsden Purchase

b. The Texas Revolution began

c. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was passed

d. The Mexican American war ended

B

All of the following contributed to the quantity of reform movements taking shape in the early 1800s, except:

a. the settlement of AMericans in lands west of the Mississippi river

b. the Puritan sense of mission

c. changing relationships among men and women

d. the Enlightenment belief in human goodness

e. the politics of the Jacksonian democracy

A.

Religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening were a reaction against:

the belief in human reason that had become popular during the American Revolution

In Texas, Americans were referred to as ( ) while the Native Mexican people were referred to as ( )

Anglos; Tejanos

The Seneca Falls Convention was:

the first woman’s rights convention in U.S history where attendees discussed their grievances and goals.

In the years prior to the Civil War, free black people in the north and south:

a. faced discrimination

b. had limited access to jobs

c. established churches and schools for support

d. formed social organizations to push for political change

All of the above

True or false? Manifest destiny was the 19th century belief that Americans possessed a God-ordained right to expand the country into the west.

True

True or false? With the increase in factories in the northeast, there was an increase in the population and actual size of cities.

True

True or false? In the 19th century, American woman had the legal right to vote, own land, and divorce their husbands.

False

True or false? The varying opinion among Americans about possible war with Mexico highlighted the growing sectionalism throughout the country.

True

True or false? For a time before it was annexed by the U.S, New Mexico was an independent republic.

False

True or false? Slave owners argued that the Bible justified slavery and that slaves were happy under the institution of slavery.

True

True or false? The decision to admit Texas into the U.S was delayed because Congress struggled with maintaining a balance of power between free and slave states

True

True or false? The treaty of Fort Laramie was intended to give Native Americans control of the Great Plains, but they ended up just pushing tribes of their land as American settlement increased.

True

True or false? Rice farmers were drawn to settle in Texas because the land was conducive for growing the crop.

False

True or false? As a result of the Black Hawk War, the Sauk and Fox Native American tribes were killed and pushed off their land into regions west of the Mississippi river.

True

True or false? When the Mexican government passed a law banning additional Americans from settling in Texas, Americans followed the law and there was no further immigration.

False

True or false? Americans who supported the movement to ban alcohol consumption in America believed that doing so would protect woman and children from abuse, and men from poverty.

True

True or false? President Polk attempted to buy the southwestern region of the U.S, but the Mexican government refused to discuss it.

True

True or false? The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican American war.

True

True or false? Travelers on the Sante Fe Trail were often missionaries who went into New Mexico to preach the Gospel to the Mexican people and convert them to Christianity.

False

True or false? In general, enslaved people working in a skilled trade in an urban setting tended to receive better treatment than those enslaved on rural plantations.

True

This woman helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention, a gathering for those supporting woman’s equality.

Susan B. Anthony

This person called for an end to slavery through violent means if necessary.

David Walker

This person led reforms for prisons and the treatment of the mentally ill.

Dorothea Dix

This person revoked the Mexican Constitution, taking its power to self-govern.

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

This person advocated for the immediate freeing of enslaved people. He spread his ideas through his Newspaper, The Liberator.

William Llyod Garrison

The leading advocate for state funded public school systems to be established.

Horace Mann

There was sectional division surrounding this reform movement, with most southern Americas not supporting the movement’s success.

Abolition movement

This movement called for banning of alcohol to solve the social problem of abuse and poverty.

Temperance movement

This person helped lead Texas to victory at the battle of San Jacinto during the Texas Revolution.

Sam Housten

This person desired an end to slavery through peaceful actions. His ideas were spread through a publication titled The North Star.

Frederick Douglass.