Exam 4: Ch. 12,13,14

On April 10, 1861, General __________ of the Confederacy demanded the surrender of Ft. Sumter.

Ex-slave __________ gave passionate public lectures in the northern states and Midwest against slavery.

The Confederate States of America elected __________ from Mississippi as president.

The Free Soilers captured roughly 40 percent of the popular vote in 1848.

Many northerners responded to John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry with sympathy.

Although Lincoln received less than 40 percent of the popular vote in the election of 1860, he carried every free state except New Jersey.

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

Popular sovereignty appealed to some politicians because its ambiguity enabled people to interpret it as they pleased.

The Ostend Manifesto, a document intended to pressure Spain to sell Cuba to the United States, was

In the 60 years after the Constitutional Convention, compromise over questions relating to slavery had been possible because of the

The election of 1852 was characterized by

Radical abolitionist John Brown

The majority of Republicans in the 1850s supported a government policy to

The election of a proslavery territorial legislature in Kansas in 1855

Which of the following was NOT part of the long-term historical importance of the Scott case?

Which of the following men ran for office in 1860?

In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that

All of the following statements are true of John Brown's raid EXCEPT:

Which of the following factors did NOT contribute to Zachary Taylor's victory in the election of 1848?

According to South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, Congress lacked the power to

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

Most of the changes experienced by women in war work remained in place after the conflict ended.

Historians estimate that southern wealth declined by roughly 43 percent during the war years.

When the war ended, approximately 3 million American men had served in the military on both sides.

The war made it impossible for many northern and southern women to conform to traditional gender roles.

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.

In Ex parte Merryman, Chief Justice __________ of the Supreme Court ruled that if the public's safety was endangered, only Congress had the right to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.

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

At the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee

To secure Maryland for the Union, Lincoln

Jefferson Davis was observed by his contemporaries as too

In response to Fort Sumter,

In February 1861, the original seceding states created a provisional government

The Civil War transformed race relations in the South as

Why did the North win the Civil War?

Which of the following does NOT describe the prison camp experience of American men during the Civil War?

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in

The largest civil disturbance of the nineteenth century occurred in New York City in early July 1863, as

Which of the following was a/were famous Civil War healthcare professionals who revolutionized hospital care for the wounded?

The New York City draft riots of 1863

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

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

Democratic governments created the South's first public school systems.

By the 1880s, African American school attendance had decreased from 40 to 5 percent.

President Johnson vetoed Reconstruction Acts, hindered the work of the Freedman's Bureau, and undermined congressional Reconstruction efforts in many other ways.

The Democratic party in Mississippi used a special program known as the __________ Plan to thwart Republican rule in the state.

After the Civil War, southern state governments attempted to reestablish white dominance by passing the __________ .

Democrats called their victory in Louisiana, " __________ ."

The Republican governments that controlled the southern states during Reconstruction were

In an overall analysis, Congressional Reconstruction for the freedpeople

As the Allstons began to reestablish their lives after the Civil War, they found that

During the Reconstruction Era, the "Black Codes"

In the years immediately following emancipation, the freedpeople

During the Reconstruction period, northerners

In providing aid to the blacks after the Civil War, the Freedman's Bureau

In 1872, which of the following men became president of the United States?

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

During the Reconstruction period, southern tenant farmers

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

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