EXAM 4 DCUSH

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who led the raid on the federal arsenal at harpers ferry, virginia, in 1859?

John Brown

what is one reason the civil war is often called the first modern war?

Industrial technology had created deadlier weapons

what statement is true about the ku klux klan (kkk)?

Founded in 1866 in Tennessee, the KKK was a terrorist organization that attacked black and white Republicans during Reconstruction.

with the beginning of radical reconstruction, southern African Americans in the late 1860s and early 1870s took direct action to remedy long-standing grievances. These actions included

the creation for the first time of all-black churches

The Thirteenth Amendment

abolished slavery throughout the United States

What did Andrew Johnson focus on with his Reconstruction plan?

issuing presidential pardons

The Reconstruction amendments toppled the ideals of what Supreme Court decision?

Dred Scott vs. Sandford

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Civil Rights Bill of 1866?

it promoted equality before the law

Lincoln’s issuance of an emancipation proclamation

followed the anrrow Union victory in the Battle of Antietam

The Enforcement Acts

drove the Ku Klux Klan out of existence in 1872

Why was Andrew Johnson acquitted on charges of impeachment?

Johnosn’s lawyers assured moderate Republicans that he would behave for the rest of his term, so several voted to acquit him

Which strategy did General Robert E. Lee follow most consistently during the war?

fighting a defensive war, hoping the enemy would grow tired of fighting

The Fifteenth Amendment

guaranteed that one could not be denied suffrage based on race

Which statement is true in reference to President Andrew Johnson?

Johnson grew up in poverty in the South and saw the planter class as a “bloated, corrupted aristocracy.”

Which was a result of the 1861 attack on Fort Sumter?

Lincoln succeeded in making the South fire the first shot

What became a key component of the Underground Railroad in the 1850s?

trains were used more frequently to take slaves to Canada and freedom OR abolitionists finally agreed to participate in hiding and moving slaves to freedom

The southern Black Codes

allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of former slaves who failed to sign yearly labor contracts

Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce were the first two blacks to

be part of the U.S Senate

What do authors of South Carolina’s Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession present as the cause of their leaving the Union?

the North’s increasing opposition to slavery

Which of the following was true according to Fredrick Douglass?

slavery was not going to be truly abolished until black men held the ballot

Why specifically did Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan fail?

ex-confederates and pre-civil war elite returned to power

Which fo he following is an exmaple of the poltiical impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Acr?

the Whig party collapsed, and many disgruntled northerners joined the new republican party

Monitor and Merrimack were

ironclad ships

What can be determined through analyzing the “Sharecropping Contract”?

the contract was a type of economic slavery

General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order 15

set aside land to distribute among black families

The election of 1876

was tainted by claims of fraud in Florida, South Carolina, and Lousiana

For most former slaves, freedom first and foremost meant

landownership

As a result of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,

the thousands of black refugees who fled to Canada challenged the image of the U.S as a refugee for freedom

The whiskey Ring scandal took place during the administration of

Ulysses S. Grant

General Sherman marched from Atlanta to the sea in order to

demoralize the South’s civilian population

Which statement is true about the Confederacy?

The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly guaranteed slave property in the states and any newly acquired territories

Becasue Presdient Johnson ended land reform and no land distribution took place,

the vast majority of rural African-Americans remained poor and wihtout property

The Freedmen’s Bureau’s greatest accomplishments were in

education and health care

The Free Soil Party

appealed to northern working-class Americans who saw access to western homesteads as the key to economic independence.

Whihc of the largest battle ever fought on the North American contintnent?

Battle of Gettysburg

The American Civil War began in April 1861, when

Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter

Which position was taken by Stephen Douglas in the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Local self-government was essential in order for America to truly be a free country

Why did Andrew Johnson veto the Civil Rights Bill of 1866?

he argued that blacks did not deserve the right of citizenship

The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks

actually helped the new republican party

Sharecropping

was preferred by african-americans to gang labor, because they were less subject to supervision

What was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850?

the new mexico and utah territories would use popular sovereignty to decide on slavery

Who is identified as an “enemy” in Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession?

federal government

Which of the following stattemnts accurately describes the sharecropping system?

sharecroppers rented land and split the crops with the plantation owner

Which of the following best describes the black response to the ending of the Civil War and the coming of freedom?

blacks adopted different ways of testing their freedom, including moving about, seeking kin, and rejecting older forms of deferential behavior

What key component of the 1860 Republican platform had never before been part of a major party’s platform?

slavery should not be extended into new states and territories

Rose Greenhow

was a confederate spy in Washington, D.C

At the first Battle of Bull Run

spectators from the city came to watch

During Reconstruction, those like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone who supported a woman’s right to vote

found themselves divided over whether to support the fifteenth amendment

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Radical Republicans?

they promoted the ideal of a strong federal government able to protect the rights of all

What was one of the ways in which black education evolved during Reconstruction?

the first black colleges were established