Question 1

1. The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California

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along with a strengthened Fugitive Slave Act.

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as a free state, along with Utah and New Mexico as slave states.

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as a slave state.

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along with an agreement to construct a transcontinental railroad.

Question 2

2. The Wilmot Proviso

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prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.

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passed in the House and was signed into law.

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banned all slavery west of the Mississippi River.

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overturned the Missouri Compromise.

Question 3

3. As a result of the gold rush, by 1850,

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California had a very diverse population.

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Californian Indians saw their social conditions improve.

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California became virulently antislavery.

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California had a large surplus of labor.

Question 4

4. In the mid-1850s, the struggle over Kansas saw

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John Brown murder several pro-slavery settlers.

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President Franklin Pierce oppose pro-slavery settlers in the territory.

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federal troops take military control of the region.

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the Missouri legislature ban its own citizens from entering Kansas.

Question 5

5. In the 1850s, in an effort to undercut the Fugitive Slave Act, some northern states

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passed laws preventing the deportation of fugitive slaves.

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began actively funding the underground railroad.

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called for secession from the South.

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proposed a national referendum on the slave issue.

Question 6

6. The ideology of Free-Soil included

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opposition to the expansion of slavery.

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an argument for black male suffrage.

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a call to end slavery in the United States as soon as possible.

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the use of military force to suppress slavery.

Question 7

7. The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) held that

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As someone's property, Scott was not a citizen and could not sue in a federal court.

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Scott must be freed under federal law.

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slaves were property unless they moved to a free state.

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states were not allowed to abolish slavery within their borders.

Question 8

8. In 1845, the immediate cause of war with Mexico was

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a dispute over territory.

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tariffs.

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the issue of slavery.

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Mexico's debt to the United States.

Question 9

9. The 1853 Gadsden Purchase

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advanced the cause of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad.

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temporarily calmed the rivalry between North and South.

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cost the United States government $25 million.

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was made with England.

Question 10

10. At the start of the Civil War, the

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North had a much more substantial economy.

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North was unified by a commitment to end slavery.

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South had more combat-age males.

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South had a massive reserve of cash.

Question 11

11. On April 14, 1861, Fort Sumter surrendered after

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Confederate forces bombarded it.

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President Lincoln chose to not resupply the fort.

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Southern soldiers occupied the fort.

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the Union commanding officer, Robert Anderson, was killed.

Question 12

12. The state admitted to the Union during the Civil War was

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West Virginia.

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Minnesota.

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Wisconsin.

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Iowa

Question 13

13. During the Civil War, as a result of new technology in weapons,

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organized infantry did not fight in formation.

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the Gatling gun became the primary combat weapon.

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infantry troops began to fight standing in line formations.

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battlefields became more organized.

Question 14

14. In the South in 1865, as a result of the Civil War,

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there were more women than men in some states.

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the traditional roles of women were reinforced and maintained.

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few women could find employment.

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large numbers of widowed Southern women married Union soldiers.

Question 15

15. The U.S. Military Telegraph Corps was headed by Thomas Scott and what future tycoon?

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Andrew Carnegie

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J. Pierpont Morgan

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John D. Rockefeller

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Jay Gould

Question 16

16. The Battle of Vicksburg in 1863

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allowed the North to split the Confederacy in two.

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put George McClellan back in good standing with President Lincoln.

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saw a quick Union victory.

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briefly revived the military hopes of the Confederacy.

Question 17

17. In naval warfare during the Civil War,

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both the Union and Confederate militaries developed ironclads.

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the Confederacy managed to build a navy equal to that of the Union.

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the Confederacy devastated Union fleets with ironclad warships.

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the Union blockade of the South was largely ineffective.

Question 18

18. In the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln declared freedom for slaves

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in the parts of the Confederacy still in rebellion.

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that joined the Union military.

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in the slave states that had remained loyal to the Union.

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in the parts of the Confederacy already under Union control.

Question 19

19. A major federal victory occurred in April 1862 when Union troops captured the city of

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New Orleans.

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Vicksburg.

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Mobile.

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Chattanooga.

Question 20

20. The Fourteenth Amendment

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gave citizenship rights to all people born in the United States.

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ended slavery throughout the United States.

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was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

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gave voting rights to all male Americans.

Question 21

21. In 1867, congressional plans for Reconstruction

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required new state governments in the South to give voting rights to black males.

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required that state legislatures ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.

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were rejected by every former Confederate state.

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replaced federal military commanders in the South with civilian leaders.

Question 22

22. The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of

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suffrage.

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slavery.

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citizenship.

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cruel and unusual punishment.

Question 23

23. In the 1860s, Black Codes were

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designed to give whites control over freedmen.

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holdovers from the antebellum era that were repealed by Southern state governments.

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passed by Congress to govern former Confederate states.

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vetoed by President Andrew Johnson.

Question 24

24. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

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involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration.

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saw John Wilkes Booth convicted of the murder of the president.

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brought a Radical Republican to the presidency.

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was intended to bring Andrew Johnson into the presidency.

Question 25

25. Jim Crow laws

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imposed a system of state-supported segregation.

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led immediately to a dramatic black exodus from the South.

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attacked the problem of lynching.

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challenged white Redeemer rule in the South.

Question 26

26. The Freedmen's Bureau

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distributed food to millions of Southern blacks.

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pushed for voting rights for former male slaves.

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was created to operate for only five years.

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gave forty acres of land and a mule to millions of Southern blacks.

Question 27

27. The Panic of 1873

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was the nation's worst economic depression to that time.

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saw President Grant favor putting more paper currency into circulation.

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began after the Southern crop-lien system collapsed.

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saw Republicans call on Grant to go off the gold standard.

Question 28

28. During Reconstruction&#44; most "carpetbaggers" were

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Northern white veterans who moved to the South.

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freedmen who moved out of the South.

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white Southerners who moved to the North.

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former confederates who moved to the West.

Question 29

29. As president&#44; Andrew Johnson

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offered amnesty to Southerners who pledged their loyalty to the United States.

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proposed delaying the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.

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argued the South should be readmitted to the Union without conditions.

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quickly sided with the Radical Republicans.

Question 30

30. Grandfather laws established that

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men who could not meet the literacy and property qualifications could vote if their ancestors had voted before Reconstruction began.

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men could vote if they met certain property qualifications.

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African Americans could only vote if they could prove that they had been in the United States for at least two generations.

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certain levels of property holdings could exempt a potential voter from a literacy test.

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