Antebellum period
What law would cause bleeding Kansas?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Which battle is the turning point in the Civil War.
a. The Battle of Gettysburg
b. The Battle of Little Bighorn
c. The Battle of South Sumter
d. The Battle of Shiloh
a is the correct as the Battle of Gettysburg was General Robert E. Lee last effort to invade the North.
What are the 3 reconstruction amendments?
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment
What is not true about Seward’s Folly?
a. The United States purchased Alaska for 7 million dollars.
b. The purchase ended Russia’s presence in North America.
c. Secretary of State William Seward signed that treaty the purchased Alaska.
d. The land was purchased at 25 cents per acre.
d is the correct answer as the United States purchased Alaska for roughly 2 cents a acre.
Which act gave 160 acres for free to anyone who would pay $10 and promise to cultivate land for minimum of 5 years.
Homestead Act
Which court case established African Americans as not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
What was the second reason for the Civil War besides slavery.
State's rights was another reason for the Civil War.
What law would remake the South under military enforcement?
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Which treaty would end the Mexican-American War?
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
True OR False? The Pacific Railway Act designated the 32nd parallel as the initial transcontinental route.
True
True OR False? New intellectual/religious movements were trends during the Antebellum Period.
True
Was it the South or the North that fired the first shots in the Civil War?
The South fired shots at fort Sumter
What method is used by landowners to rent out land to farmers who are usually supplied with farming tools and a crude house?
Sharecropping
What was the platform for the Free Soil Party?
They opposed the expansion of slavery into the west.
A network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States used to help African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada.
The Underground Railroad
Who started an armed slave revolt in Southern states by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
John Brown
Who was the general in charge of the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
What unwritten deal affectively ended reconstruction in the south?
Compromise of 1877
What did the United States gain from the Gadsden Purchase?
a. Parts of Texas
b. Parts of Alaska
c. Parts of New Mexico
d. Parts of Arizona
c and d are correct
Which state has the first black representative?
South Carolina
Which act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
1850 Fugitive Slave Act
What were the main advantages that the North had in the Civil War.
Larger population for troops, income tax and war bonds, federal currency, Greater industrial capacity, railroad transportation-trains.
Black codes were established under which president?
President Andrew Johnson
Which law authorized the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States?
The Pacific Railway Act
Where did the California Gold Rush start?
Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California