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How did the Civil War affect the northern economy?

A 100

It stimulated industrialization there.

A 100

What formally abolished the institution of slavery in 1865?

A 200

The ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

A 200

How did the federal government encourage the building of the transcontinental railroad in the

second half of the 1800s?

(1) giving land to the railroad companies

(2) purchasing large amounts of railroad stock

(3) forcing convicts to work as laborers

(4) taking control of the railroad trust

A 300

(1) giving land to the railroad companies

A 300

Why were the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 passed by

Congress?

A 400

To encourage the development of the Midwest and the western parts of the

country.

A 400

Name three advantages the North had over the South at the beginning of the

Civil War.

A 500

Much larger population, more industrialized, more economic

resources, larger navy...

A 500

Most Southern political leaders praised the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v.

Sanford (1857) because it

(1) granted citizenship to all enslaved persons

(2) upheld the principle of popular sovereignty

(3) supported the right of a state to secede from the Union

(4) protected the property rights of slave owners in the territories

B 100

(4) protected the property rights of slave owners in the territories

B 100

Why did the South develop a plantation system economy instead of an industrial

economy such as the North had developed?

B 200

The climate and topography encouraged the growing of cash crops there, such as

cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco.

B 200

Which phrase best completes the title for the partial outline below?

Reasons for the ________________

A. Increasing sectionalism

B. Disagreements over states’ rights issues

C. Breakdown of compromise

D. Election of 1860

(1) Start of the Revolutionary War

(2) Secession of the Southern States from the Union

3) Failure of the Whiskey Rebellion

(4) Adoption of the Bill of Rights B 300

(2) Secession of the Southern States from the Union

B 300

What was the immediate result of Lincoln’s election to the presidency

in 1860?

B 400

South Carolina and several other southern states seceded

from the Union.

B 400

Name three advantages the South had at the beginning of the Civil War.

B 500

Defensive war, knew the land, fighting for their

independence, had better or more capable generals, had some European sympathy

B 500

Manifest Destiny was used to justify what American desire

in the mid-1800s?

C 100

To expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean.

C 100

The Homestead Act, the mass killing of buffalo, and the completion of the

transcontinental railroad are most closely associated with the

(1) rise of organized labor

(2) building of the Erie Canal

(3) northern migration of African Americans

(4) decline of the Plains IndiansC 200

(4) decline of the Plains Indians

C 200

The purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided free federal land, was to

(1) encourage settlement of the West

(2) set up reservations for Native American Indians

(3) establish land-grant agricultural colleges

(4) assist in the construction of transcontinental railroads

C 300

(1) encourage settlement of the West

C 300

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C 400

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Which event was most influenced by the principle of Manifest Destiny?

(1) founding of Jamestown

(2) defeat of the British in the Revolutionary War

(3) purchase of Florida

(4) acquisition of the Mexican Cession

C 400

(4) acquisition of the Mexican Cession

C 400

The slogan “Fifty-four forty or fight!,” the annexation of Texas, and the

Mexican War all relate to the

(1) theory of nullification

(2) practice of secession

(3) belief in Manifest Destiny

(4) idea of due process

C 500

(3) belief in Manifest Destiny

C 500

What did Lincoln believe, according to his “House Divided” speech?

(1) slavery was immoral and should be abolished immediately

(2) sectional differences threatened to destroy the Union

(3) the Southern states should be allowed to secede

(4) to save the Union, the North should compromise with the South on slavery

D 100

(2) sectional differences threatened to destroy the Union

D 100

One way that “Bleeding Kansas,” the Dred Scott decision, and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s

Ferry had a similar effect on the United States was that these events

(1) ended conflict over slavery in the territories

(2) eased tensions between the North and South

(3) contributed to the formation of the Whig Party

(4) made sectional compromise more difficult

D 200

(4) made sectional compromise more difficult

D 200

As the Civil War began, President Abraham Lincoln stated that his primary goal was to

(1) end slavery

(2) set new national boundaries

(3) increase congressional powers

(4) preserve the Union

D 300

(4) preserve the Union

D 300

Before the Civil War, the principle of popular sovereignty was proposed as a

means of

(1) allowing states to secede from the Union

(2) permitting voters to nullify federal laws

(3) deciding the legalization of slavery in a new state

(4) overturning unpopular decisions of the Supreme Court

D 400

(3) deciding the legalization of slavery in a new state

D 400

The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska

Act (1854) were all efforts to

(1) end fighting between Midwestern farmers and Native American Indians

(2) encourage manufacturing in the West

(3) increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

(4) settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

D 500

(4) settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

D 500

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Slavery

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What was the phrase that described the clashes between

pro-slavery and antislavery forces over the use of popular

sovereignty in western territories during 1856?

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“Bleeding Kansas”

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