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U.S. I Final Review
U.S. I Final Review
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Overview from the Cotton Gin to the Civil War
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At the end of the war Lincoln's attitude to the South was:
To punish their political and economic leaders
To allow them to retain their right to slavery
To allow Congress to decide what was best
To seek ways to reconnect them to the country without malice
2
Reason why Gettysburg was the turning point for war:
It caused the South to surrender
The South's capital was captured as a result
The South lost too many men to go on offense again
It cut the South in two on the Mississippi
3
Best definition of Manifest Destiny:
America believes in free enterprise and capitalism
America has a fate to expand its lands and ideas
America is a Christian nation
America is committed to the idea of equality
4
Example of the idea of popular sovereignty:
The national government forbids slavery in an area
A line is drawn where slavery is legal or not
State voters decide if slavery is appropriate
People have the right to own slaves anywhere.
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The trigger for the secession of the Deep South was:
Bleeding Kansas
The election of Lincoln
The firing on Fort Sumter
The raid on Harper's Ferry
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Middle class social reformers had success in creating:
Racially mixed schools in the South
Efficient political machines
Horizontal integration
Settlement houses
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Sinclair's The Jungle exposed:
Boss Tweed's corruption
Monopoly practices of Standard Oil
Union busting in the steel industry
Unsanitary and dangerous conditions in the meat industry.
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An example of Sherman's Total War:
All of the above
Freeing slaves
Burning plantations
Destroying railroads
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Main goal of Emancipation Proclamation:
Enlist slaves into Union army
Free the slaves in the South only
Free the slaves in America
Give women equal rights
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Social Darwinism can be seen in the following belief:
All of the above.
Rich people should give charity to those in need.
The poor deserve to be poor because they lack ability to be successful.
God has chosen certain people to go to Heaven.
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Goal of the Radical Republicans:
Bring the idea of racial equality to the South.
Expand the country.
Support Big Business.
Limit the new rights of Black people in the South.
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Collective Bargaining was a method used by:
Women to get the vote from government.
Business to deprive workers of union rights.
Business to increase factory production.
Workers to get better wages from business.
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Impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Increased sectionalist tension
Illustrated the harm of slavery to North
All of the above
Increased support for abolition
14
Reformers were worried that this group had too much influence on Congress:
Big Labor
Immigrants
Big Business
Southerners
15
Lincoln chose not to fire the first shot at Sumter because:
He was looking for a way to allow a successful secession.
He had decided to withdraw the troops.
He wanted the South to appear as aggressors.
He was indecisive as to what to do.
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The action that ended slavery throughout the United States:
The Compromise of 1876.
The Thirteenth Amendment.
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Wilmot Proviso.
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Muckrakers were:
Investigative journalists
Workers in steel mills.
Corrupt political leaders.
Former Confederate leaders.
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Polk's Declaration of War was based on the idea of:
Mexican dictatorship
Failure to pay debts
Market Revolution
Self-Defense
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Voting rights were protected during Reconstruction through:
The Dred Scott Decision
Black Codes
Jim Crow laws.
The Fifteenth Amendment
20
Traditional Southern leaders hated all of the following Except:
Scalawags
Sharecoppers
Elected African Americans
Carpetbaggers
21
Tammany Hall is connected to:
The location for the Compromise of 1877
Corrupt political machines.
Thomas Alva Edison's inventions.
A settlement house in New York City.
22
The goal of the Americanization effort:
Improve corrupt city governments
Assist immigrants in adapting to the American culture.
Support business efforts to dominate the world economy.
Increase democracy at th national level.
23
A proposed law that comes from the people rather than politicians:
Recall
Amendment
Initiative
Declaration
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Clay's primary purpose in creating the Compromise of 1850:
Allow the spread of slavery as a right of property
Set the stage for abolition and emancipation
Avoid North-South Civil War
End the idea of popular sovereignty
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Goal of Vertical Integration:
Buy companies that produce raw materials needed for the final product
Work with unions to ensure a productive work force.
Use the assemby line to increase production.
Buy out companies that produce a similar product.
26
The following were northern responses to the Fugitive Slave Act:
Underground Railroad
Vigilance Committees
All of the above
Personal Liberty laws
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An example of graft:
Exposing corruption in a Muckraker article.
Using bribery to get people to vote for a candidate.
Using political connections to get a government job.
Taking kickbacks from a government contract.
28
The movement behind the Chinese Exclusion Act was:
Socialism
Imperialism
Revivalism
Nativism
29
Border states were a problem for the Union because:
They had slaves
They had large numbers of immigrants
They lacked soldiers to fight Mexico
They controlled the Mississippi
30
White Supremacy was reimposed by the South through:
Jim Crow laws
Sharecropping
All of the above
The Klan
31
Dred Scott Decision did this:
Indicated slavery could exist but didn't have to be enforced
Closed territories to slavery
Opened territories to slavery
Upheld the Missouri Compromise
32
Event that immediately led to Emancipation Proclamation:
The surrender of Lee at Appomattox
The Battle of Antietam
Lincoln's election in 1860
The raid on Harper's ferry
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Overall Union plan to defeat the South:
Monroe Doctrine
Anaconda Plan
Manifest Destiny
Total War
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Central figure in Bleeding Kansas
Henry Clay
John Calhoun
Sam Houston
John Brown
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An example of patronage:
Offering a bribe to get a contract
Campaigning for a particular law
Getting a job through merit
Geting a job through political connections.