Chapter 12-14

According to the doctrine of popular sovereignty, the decision whether to permit slavery in a territory would be made by the

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852),

Abraham Lincoln believed that

The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court

All of the following statements are true about Dred Scott and his legal case EXCEPT:

Members of the American Party feared Catholic immigrants of the 1840s and 1850s would

The election of 1852 was characterized by

During the early 1850s, political parties lost influence because of the

What was the long-term outcome of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry?

The supporters of "free soil" in the territories made all of the following arguments EXCEPT that

Which of the following southern states was the first to leave the Union?

Harboring presidential ambitions, Stephen Douglas hoped to win the support of southern Democrats by recommending that the Kansas and Nebraska territories

A faction of Democrats in New York bolted the party in 1848 and joined with "conscience" Whigs to form the Free-Soil Party and support __________ for president.

The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 was the __________ , appeasing southerners but infuriating northerners.

When President Lincoln met __________ in 1863, he is reported to have said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."

Senator Stephen Douglas argued that the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 should be voted on as a package rather than individually to demonstrate national unity. True False

An effective argument against the Wilmot Proviso was the fact that Congress had never before restricted the extension of slavery into new territories. True False

The arrival of Irish and German immigrants spurred an anti-Catholic backlash from the Anglo American Protestant core of the nation. True False

Frederick Douglass gave a famous Independence Day speech in 1852 that symbolized the increasing stridency of free blacks against slavery. True False

Over 80,000 gold miners arrived in California in 1849, swelling the American population of the state. True False

At the end of the war, roughly 30 million African American slaves were free. True False

The Republican Party completely united behind its war-weary president in the election of 1864. True False

Slaveholders eagerly allowed the impressment of their slaves for war work. True False

Favorable statistics of population and industrial development invariably decide the outcome of a war. True False

In the election of 1864, President Lincoln surprised himself, his party, and the nation by taking 55 percent of the popular vote. True False

Fashionable Washington photographer __________ , realizing that the camera was the "eye of history," asked Lincoln for permission to record the war.

The early struggle of the Civil War in the East focused on the capture of __________ , the Confederacy's capital and one of the South's most important railroad, industrial, and munitions centers.

Originally a U.S. warship, which sank as the federal navy abandoned the Norfolk Navy Yard, the Confederates raised the __________ and covered it with heavy armor.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in

The Civil War transformed race relations in the South as

In response to Fort Sumter,

As commander of the Union armies, General Ulysses S. Grant recommended a

When the war was over, what had the South lost besides political independence? A. Large and great cities lay in ruins. B. Tools were worn out. C. Agricultural fields lay barren. D. All of the above.

The Civil War transformed American society as

Which of the following qualities was NOT a part of Lincoln's success as president?

During the early years of the war in the East

During the Civil War, the northern army

Why did the North win the Civil War?

Southerners thought that European nations would recognize and support the Confederacy because of the Europeans'

The New York City draft riots of 1863

During the Reconstruction Era, poor black southerners

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution

The Republican governments that controlled the southern states during Reconstruction were

During the Reconstruction Era, the "Black Codes"

In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, the southern states

In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, the Democratic party

Stimulated by the Civil War, many American workers during Reconstruction formed

The election of 1866 was critical in determining the outcome of Reconstruction because the

During Reconstruction, poor blacks and poor whites in the South

At the end of the Civil War, emancipated blacks

During the late 1860s as Republicans lost interest in the South, American women like Susan B. Anthony

In the months immediately after the Civil War, the dominant emotion among southern whites was

Three __________ , passed by Congress during the Grant administration, helped to protect voters from violence or fraud.

The __________ Amendment guaranteed civil rights for blacks.

In 1869, two __________ met in Utah, linking the Atlantic and the Pacific for the first time.

Class divisions among blacks in Louisiana helped to end Reconstruction there. True False

In the Memphis race riot of 1866, Union soldiers firmly defended blacks against attacks by whites. True False

Because of the loyalty of their former slaves, southern whites had little fear that the freedpeople would try to take revenge on southern white people. True False

The primary reason for the Democrats' return to power was violence. True False

Republicans increased taxes and state debts in the South during Reconstruction. True False