Which one of the following individuals recommended an ʺAnaconda Policyʺ towards the South
Winfield Scott
100
Which one of the following constitutional amendments abolished slavery?
Thirteenth Amendment
100
Andrew Johnsonʹs acquittal on impeachment charges resulted from
the fears of some Republicans that his removal would threaten the balance of power of
the governmen
100
Popular sovereignty was the idea that ________.
it was for the citizens of a territory to decide if their territory would enter the Union as a slave state or a free state
200
The bloodiest one day battle of the war wa
Antietam
200
The Emancipation Proclamation freed who?
C) only slaves in the Confederate controlled areas.
200
Which of the following constitutional amendments attempted to give civil rights to the former slaves?
Fourteenth
200
As early as 1863, Lincoln proposed a plan for restoring southern state governments based on________ percent of the voting population of 1860 taking a loyalty oath to the Union.
10
200
In 1856, Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina, on the floor of the U.S. Senate, almost beat Senator ________ of Massachusetts to death.
Charles Sumner
300
The victory at ________ gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
300
The First Reconstruction Act of 1867
placed the South under military rule.
300
What amendment to the Constitution states that no person could be denied the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
Fifteenth
300
The Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case was largely the work of
Roger Taney
300
In the Antebellum South, social prestige and influence were determined by
the ownership of slaves
400
The Confederate victory at Chancellorsville cost them the life of
Stonewall Jackson
400
The legacy of Reconstruction for most former slaves was?
poverty and discrimination
400
The federal agency designed to assist former slaves in making the economic adjustment to
freedom was known as the
Freedmans Bureau
400
The political party known especially for its anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic philosophy was the
Know-Nothing Party
400
Abolitionists cited the ______________ as the most outrageous component of the Compromise of 1850.
enactment of the new Fugitive Slave Law
500
The most effective Union general was?
Ulysses S. Grant
500
The result of the disputed election of 1876 was significant because
meant the end of Reconstruction
500
Black Codes showed that
southerners wanted blacks to return to positions of servility.
500
Underlying the rapid growth of the Republican Party was its
position on slavery in the territories
500
Those people who would feel drawn to the positions described in this political pamphlet would also be drawn to support which of the following contemporary groups?
Know Nothing Party/American party or “The Order of the Star Spangled Banner”