(NO STIMULUS) Unit 19-21 Database: APUSH

Which of the following statements best summarizes the views of Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction?

He believed that Reconstruction was an executive branch matter and sought the rapid restoration of the former Confederate states to the Union.

In 1861 the North went to war with the South primarily to

preserve the Union

During the Civil War, the Republican Party passed legislation promoting economic development concerning all of the following EXCEPT the

granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods

In the late nineteenth century, state governments in the South were largely successful in restricting

African Americans’ voting rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment

The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it

forestalled the possibility of European intervention

Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth-century South?

A cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers

The goal of the American Colonization society was to

return freed slaves to Africa

The Union’s victory at Gettysburg was significant because it

halted the last major Confederate invasion of the North

Which of the following factors contributed most directly to the end of slavery in the United States?

The Union victory in the Civil War led to the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

After the Civil War, women reformers and former abolitionists were divided over

legislation that ensured the voting rights of African American males

The industrial resources of the North during the Civil War most likely accounted for which of the following?

The disadvantage of the Confederacy in access to arms, munitions, and other supplies

Which of the following statements about African American soldiers during the Civil War is correct?

For most of the war, they were paid less than White soldiers of equal rank.

The Fourteenth Amendment emerged from which of the following contexts?

Republican concerns that African Americans would be denied citizenship rights

Of the following, the most threatening problem for the Union from 1861 through 1863 was

possible British recognition of the Confederacy

In the first half of the nineteenth century, a major consequence of United States expansionism was

increased sectional discord, accompanied by the growing failure of compromise

During Reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the

spread of sharecropping

All of the following led Congress to impose Radical Reconstruction measured EXCEPT the

massive exodus of former slaves from the South

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in

the withdrawal of federal troops from the South

In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned with

protecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slaves

The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it

forestalled the possibility of European intervention

Which of the following factors can best be used to explain the Union victory in the Civil War?

Greater population and industrial development

Which of the following was LEAST involved in the struggle for women’s rights?

Dorothea Dix

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to

strengthen the moral cause of the Union

Which of the following best describes the situation of freedom in the decade following the Civil War?

The majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters.

The belief by some Americans that the Civil War was “a rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight” was reflected in

the draft riots in New York City

Why did Congressional Reconstruction end in 1877?

The Republican and Democratic parties effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 presidential election.

Which of the following factors best explains the territorial expansion of slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century?

The Mexican-American War incorporated extensive new lands into the United States.

Which of the following was true of the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases and the 1883 Civil Rights cases?

They weakened the protections given to African Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment.

All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the

passage of the Wilmot Proviso

The Black Codes passed in a number of southern states after the Civil War were intended to

place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities open to Black people

Which of the following was a serious constitutional question after the Civil War?

The political and legal status of the former Confederate states

The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established

the freedom of all slaves not emancipated under Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation

Which of the following groups would most likely have supported secession from the United States after the 1860 presidential election?

Southern Democrats

Which of the following occurred during Radical Reconstruction?

The formation of the Ku Klux Klan

At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, pro-Union sentiment was strong in western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina primarily because

there were relatively few slaves or large plantations in these regions

Which of the following achievements of the “carpetbag” governments survived the “Redeemer” administrations?

Establishment of a public school system

At the beginning of the Civil War, Southerners expressed all of the following expectations EXCEPT:

The South’s superior industrial resources would give it an advantage over the North.

On the eve of the Civil War, the South enjoyed an advantage over the North in

experienced military leadership