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What invention allowed cotton to become the most profitable product in the United States?
A.the automated press
B.the cotton gin
C.the locomotive
D.the cotton mill
What sectional dispute did President Andrew Jackson counter with the threat of war?
A.Western territories were admitting landowners with enslaved people.
B.The New England states refused to pay shipping taxes.
C.South Carolina refused to pay a national tariff.
D.Virginia seceded from the Union.
What was Manifest Destiny?
A.the national search for a route to Washington State
B.the belief that all slaves should be freed immediately
C.the belief that America was meant to extend to the Pacific Ocean
D.the desire for free land in the West for settlers
What military advantage did the North hold over the South as the Civil War began?
A.The North had greater popular support.
B.The North had better commanders.
C.The North had a strong naval tradition.
D.The North had more military colleges.
How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the way the war was perceived?
The Industrial Revolution involved what change in businesses?
A.Large-scale manufacturing with large workforces produced products that could be sold nationwide and abroad.
B.Businesses began to seek higher tariffs to protect from overseas products.
C.Businesses began to form unions that would prevent competition.
D.Labor became more expensive as people began to specialize.
What was the temperance movement?
A.a group of people who wanted to ban or reduce alcohol consumption
B.a reform movement that wanted voting rights for women
C.a group of teachers who wanted to reform the educational system
D.a movement of Northerners who wanted to abolish slavery
When he ran for president, James K. Polk promised to annex
A.California and New Mexico.
B.Texas and Oregon.
C.California and Oregon.
D.Texas and New Mexico.
Why was it easy for the North to disrupt Southern transportation once the war began?
A.The South had fewer miles of railroad track.
B.The South had purchased inferior locomotives from England.
C.The South did not have the military knowledge to prevent attacks.
D.The South decided not to protect its lines from attack.
Most of the immigrants arriving in the 1830s came from
A.Britain and Spain.
B.Ireland and Germany.
C.Britain and Germany.
D.Ireland and France.
How did the war with Mexico change the United States?
A.The United States was forced to pay war reparations to Mexico for the damage done there.
B.The United States lost Texas to Mexico.
C.The United States lost California and was forced to purchase it.
D.The United States acquired more than 500,000 miles of new territory.
Why did the North have a solid economic advantage over the South?
A.The North had more valuable exports than the South.
B.The North could borrow money from European nations.
C.The North could tax immigration.
D.Nearly 90 percent of American factories were in the North.
General Lee's defeat at Gettysburg gave the North all of the following advantages EXCEPT
A.Britain decided not to help the Confederacy.
B.President Jefferson Davis declared a truce.
C.Lee lost a third of his army.
D.The Republicans gained popularity and power.
The political debate about slavery in antebellum America focused primarily on what question?
A.whether freed slaves could travel out of the South
B.whether the North had the right to abolish slavery in the South
C.whether slavery would be allowed to extend into the Western territories
D.whether people from slave states could be elected president
What was abolitionism?
A.the anti-immigration movement
B.the demand for an immediate end to slavery
C.the movement to gain voting rights for women
D.the push for better factory conditions
What was popular sovereignty?
A.the idea that the people of Texas had the right to join the United States
B.the idea that Americans wanted slavery to confined to the South
C.the idea that citizens of each territory should decide whether to allow slavery there
D.the idea that Congress had the right to determine whether a territory would allow slavery
What two provisions gave freedmen their first civil rights in America after the Civil War?
A.the Black Codes and the Readmission Act
B.the Military Reconstruction Act and the Republican Codes
C.the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
D.the Bill of Rights and the Freedmen's Act
What was the primary concern of female progressives?
woman suffrage
What event prompted a sectional crisis in Congress in 1819?
A.The president announced that slavery was a U.S. institution.
B.Missouri wanted to enter the union as a slave state.
C.Maine wanted to enter the union as a separate state.
D.Congress voted to allow states to determine the slavery issue for themselves.
What was the unintended result of the Fugitive Slave Act?
A.It further enraged Northerners against the institution of slavery.
B.It allowed Southern plantation owners to recoup damages for enslaved people who successfully escaped.
C.It allowed the country to reach a compromise that would keep them from war.
D.It provided funding to fugitive slave catchers to help the Southern economy.
What was the significance of the First Battle of Bull Run?
What event signaled the end of Reconstruction?
A.Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in 1874.
B.President Hayes pulled the last federal troops out of the South.
C.The Whiskey Ring scandal hurt Republican power.
D.Liberal Republicans left the Republican Party to side with Southern Democrats.