US History Review

1. US History Review Chapters 7-12

2. Americans who believed in republican virtues called on women to • a. take on new political and legal rights. • b. work outside the home. • c. become the recognized heads of families • d. serve as examples of honesty and discipline.

3. Preachers during the Second Great Awakening taught that • a. churches should be controlled by the wealthy. • b. God can only be understood by highly educated people. • c. religion is for men only. • d. salvation is available to anyone, rich or poor.

4. Starting in 1843, settlers moved west in organized wagon trains along • a. the Mohawk Trail. • b. the Oregon Trail. • c. the Great Valley Road. • d. Forbes’s Road.

5. Most pioneers who settled west of the Appalachians were • a. families looking for good land. • b. miners looking for gold and silver. • c. missionaries seeking converts. • d. bankers from New York and Boston.

6. The huge numbers of settlers from the United States in Texas led to • a. a decline of slavery in Texas. • b. Mexican independence. • c. decreased trade with the United States. • d. an independence movement in Texas.

7. The Monroe Doctrine stated that • a. European countries must give up their colonies in the Western Hemisphere. • b. the United States was free to take sides in European wars. • c. Europe must not try to control any nation in the Western Hemisphere. • d. further European colonization in the Western Hemisphere was welcome.

8. How did many southern states react to the uprisings of Vessey and Turner? • a. They passed harsher slave laws. • b. They condemned slave owners who treated their slaves cruelly. • c. They encouraged plantation owners to begin to end slavery. • d. They passed laws to restrict the slave trade.

9. How did the Jacksonian Democrats differ from the National Republicans? • a. They opposed government interference with the economy. • b. They thought the federal government should control business. • c. They supported a high tariff on foreign goods. • d. They favored a national bank for the United States.

10. After Congress banned the importation of slaves, • a. the cotton industry collapsed. • b. the slave population increased dramatically. • c. the slave population decreased dramatically. • d. most southern states voted to end slavery.

11. Jackson defended the spoils system by claiming that it prevented • a. partisan politics. • b. control of government by the rich. • c. minority rule. • d. an imbalance of power

12. Most immigrants to the United States from 1820 to 1860 came from • a. Asia. • b. Africa. • c. northern Europe. • d. the Caribbean

13. Some northern workers opposed the antislavery movement because • a. Congress had imposed the gag rule. • b. women were not allowed to speak at antislavery meetings. • c. free blacks accepted lower wages than whites. • d. the Constitution supported slavery.

14. As a result of the early women’s movement, women began to • a. own property and make wills. • b. join religious revivals. • c. vote in local elections. • d. graduate from college.

15. The territory the United States gained after the Mexican War • a. helped to resolve tensions between the North and South. • b. was opened to settlers with or without slaves. • c. contributed to worsening relations between the North and South. • d. did not affect the slavery issue.

16. Under popular sovereignty, the decision whether or not to allow slavery in a territory was made by • a. Congress. • b. the voters of the territory. • c. the Supreme Court. • d. the President.

17. Abolitionists objected to the Dred Scott decision because it • a. freed enslaved people who left the South. • b. strengthened the Missouri Compromise. • c. outlawed due process as called for by the Fifth Amendment. • d. meant Congress had no power to ban slavery anywhere.

18. In 1860 and 1861, seven southern states seceded from the Union in protest of the • a. election of Republican Abraham Lincoln as President. • b. federal government’s refusal to punish John Brown. • c. brutal beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate. • d. Dred Scott decision.

19. How did the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin affect American society in the 1850s? • a. It convinced many Northerners that enslaved people were property. • b. It resulted in the passage of laws protecting slaves from owners who beat them. • c. It caused some slaveholders to allow slaves to buy their freedom. • d. It convinced many Northerners that slavery would ruin the nation.

20. During his 1858 senatorial election debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln argued that • a. slavery was a moral issue. • b. whites and African Americans should have social and political equality. • c. slavery should be prohibited in the South. • d. southern states should secede.

21. The phrase “Manifest Destiny” refers to the belief that the United States • a. had a right to all of the land claimed by Mexico. • b. had a divine mission to spread liberty across the continent. • c. ought to give up all claim to land between the Mississippi and the Pacific. • d. had a right to all of Oregon Country.

22. Which of the following was a provision of the Compromise of 1850? • a. California would be a free state. • b. Missouri would be a free state. • c. Slavery would be prohibited in New Mexico and Utah. • d. No new states or territories would be allowed to have slaves.

23. “Bleeding Kansas” earned its name from clashes over • a. the Dred Scott decision. • b. religious differences. • c. slavery. • d. land ownership.

24. Secessionists believed that they had a right to leave the Union, because • a. they had joined it voluntarily. • b. it had been created unconstitutionally. • c. they were being unfairly taxed. • d. the North refused to compromise.

25. What caused President Lincoln to become dissatisfied with General McClellan’s command? • a. He thought McClellan took unnecessary risks. • b. He thought McClellan was too slow to take action. • c. He objected to McClellan’s political views. • d. He said that McClellan was a coward.

26. The single greatest cause of death of Confederate and Union soldiers was • a. canisters. • b. shells. • c. disease. • d. gunboats.

27. Sherman treated South Carolina harshly because • a. it was the home state of Robert E. Lee. • b. his troops had been treated harshly in the state. • c. he wanted to force Lee to send reinforcements to the state. • d. it had been the first Confederate state to secede.

28. Which of the following was a strategy of the Confederate government? • a. blockading the North’s Atlantic coast • b. attacking the North by way of the Mississippi River • c. seeking support from Britain and France • d. limiting the upper draft age to 35

29. At Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865, • a. Lincoln was shot. • b. Lee signed the terms of surrender. • c. the Civil War officially ended. • d. Lincoln gave his Second Inaugural Address.

30. The Freedmen’s Bureau succeeded in • a. redistributing formerly white-owned land to black southerners. • b. keeping ex-Confederate supporters out of office. • c. providing clothing, medical care, food, and education to many freed people. • d. electing African Americans to southern state governments.

31. During Reconstruction, southern governments tried to improve economic conditions in the South by • a. lowering cotton prices. • b. building railroads and businesses. • c. redistributing land. • d. lowering taxes.

32. Which best reflects President Lincoln’s hopes for Reconstruction? • a. to punish the South severely for seceding from the Union • b. to replace all white officials in the South with African Americans • c. to strengthen the North’s domination of the South • d. to bind the nation together and create a lasting peace

33. The most visible new black organizations in the South were • a. military clubs. • b. colleges. • c. churches. • d. political parties.

34. One example of the wise use of Reconstruction funds was investing in • a. sharecropping. • b. business schemes run by scalawags. • c. cotton plantations. • d. public education

35. Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment showed that Congress accepted • a. Lincoln’s stand against slavery. • b. Lee’s terms for ending the war. • c. its responsibility for the war. • d. Sherman’s destruction of Atlanta.

36. The main goal of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction was to • a. prevent African Americans from exercising their rights. • b. gain control of state legislatures. • c. restore the Confederacy. • d. improve conditions for poor whites.