CPUSH Unit 2 Review - Nation Divided

Question 1

Out of these political parties, which party wanted to end slavery?

Accepted Answer

Republicans

Question 2

Which of these new laws guaranteed one's right to vote, regardless of skin color (or previous status as a slave)?

Accepted Answer

15th Amendment

Question 3

Which of the following occurred as a result of the election of 1860?

Accepted Answer

Lincoln didn't win a single southern state, Lincoln won the popular vote, but not a majority, Lincoln won a majority of the electoral vote, South Carolina seceded from the Union

Question 4

Which of these is the best description for the KKK?

Accepted Answer

secret terrorist vigilante organization

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

Accepted Answer

Kansas would become a slave state

Question 6

Champion of women's rights and anti-slavery advocate

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 7

Which of these new laws provided food, clothing, shelter, education, and healthcare for former slaves?

Accepted Answer

Freedmen's Bureau

Question 8

President Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction...

Accepted Answer

Wanted to re-instate the Southern states as quickly as possible, didn&#x27;t have many conditions, Punished confederate leaders harder than Lincoln&#x27;s plan

Question 9

A group who sought to end slavery in the United States was known as __________.

Accepted Answer

Abolitionists

Question 10

TRUE or FALSE: the cotton gin INCREASED slavery in the United States.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Question 11

When President Johnson was impeached, what was the end result?

Accepted Answer

The HOUSE impeached but the SENATE voted not to press charges

Question 12

What was the title for the grassroots network of homes/farms that helped slaves escape to Freedom?

Accepted Answer

Underground Railroad

Question 13

Out of everything that the Freedmen's Bureau provided, what was the most significant (lasting) effect?

Accepted Answer

education

Question 14

Why did the Confederacy expect Britain to support them?

Accepted Answer

Britain had always depended on Southern Cotton

Question 15

Which of these new laws officially abolished slavery in America?

Accepted Answer

13th Amendment

Question 16

Why did South Carolina secede from the Union?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 without a single southern vote

Question 17

What does the principle of 'popular sovereignty' mean?

Accepted Answer

a vote of the people in that state/territory

Question 18

When the Kansas-Nebraska act was passed...

Accepted Answer

it overturned the Missouri Compromise, popular sovereignty would let each state vote on slavery

Question 19

Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write the book: Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Accepted Answer

to expose the harsh cruelty of slavery

Question 20

Which political party gained lots of new voters during Reconstruction?

Accepted Answer

Republicans

Question 21

What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

Accepted Answer

freed slaves in Confederate states

Question 22

Which Supreme Court Case stated that slaves were not citizens & were always their master's property- even in free zones?

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Question 23

President Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction...

Accepted Answer

Only required 10% of a Confederate State to remain loyal to the Union

Question 24

When did Reconstruction officially end?

Accepted Answer

Northern army left the South in 1877

Question 25

Laws passed in Southern states to prevent freed slaves from voting

Accepted Answer

black codes

Question 26

What was a result of NATIVISM during the 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Irish and German immigrants faced persecution

Question 27

Which of the following was NOT part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Accepted Answer

California would be a free state

Question 28

Many American women got their first outside-the-home job in what industry?

Accepted Answer

textile factories

Question 29

Which Civil War battle was the bloodiest 24 hours of American history at that time?

Accepted Answer

Antietam

Question 30

Why is Harriet Tubman historically important?

Accepted Answer

She rescued hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad

Question 31

When the Civil War started, the _____ South was at a disadvantage against the _____ North.

Accepted Answer

Agricultural; Industrial

Question 32

Where did a significant women's rights convention occur?

Accepted Answer

Seneca Falls, NY

Question 33

What do you call a state that stayed in the Union but still allowed slavery?

Accepted Answer

Border State

Question 34

When Spain controlled Texas, they asked white settlers to...

Accepted Answer

convert to Catholicism, abolish slavery, learn and speak Spanish, obey Santa Anna

Question 35

Which civil war battle lasted 3 days, killed 50,000+ Americans, and turned the tide of the war?

Accepted Answer

Gettsyburg

Question 36

Where did the Civil War end?

Accepted Answer

Appomattox Courthouse

Question 37

What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo do when the Mexican-American war ended?

Accepted Answer

Rio Grande river would be the border between USA and Mexico, California and some western land granted to USA, Mexico would be paid $15 million

Question 38

Why did so many Irish workers move to the United States in the 1800s?

Accepted Answer

American factories had lots of jobs, potato famine

Question 39

Which of these describes the religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening?

Accepted Answer

individual people sought salvation, women and African-Americans became more religious, church membership increased

Question 40

Former slave who became a great speaker and anti-slavery advocate

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglass

Question 41

Which side was completely wrecked when the war ended?

Accepted Answer

South

Question 42

Which of these new laws made everyone born (or naturalized) in the USA an automatic citizen?

Accepted Answer

14th Amendment

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