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Question 1

1 out of 1 points

Popular sovereignty appealed to some politicians because its ambiguity enabled people to

interpret it as they pleased.

Answer

Selected Answer: True

Correct Answer: True

Question 2

1 out of 1 points

Frederick Douglass gave a famous Independence Day speech in 1852 that symbolized the

increasing stridency of free blacks against slavery.

Answer



Question 3

1 out of 1 points

Over 80,000 gold miners arrived in California in 1849, swelling the American population of the

state.

Answer



Question 4

1 out of 1 points

Although Lincoln received less than 40 percent of the popular vote in the election of 1860, he

carried every free state except New Jersey.

Answer



Question 5

1 out of 1 points

The Compromise of 1850 delayed but did not prevent the outbreak of more serious sectional

conflicts.

Answer



Question 6

1 out of 1 points

Senator Stephen Douglas argued that the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 should be voted

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on as a package rather than individually to demonstrate national unity.

Answer

Selected Answer: False

Correct Answer: False

Question 7

0 out of 1 points

The election of a proslavery territorial legislature in Kansas in 1855

Answer

Selected Answer: helped delay secession of the South.

Correct Answer: resulted from wholesale election fraud.

Question 8

0 out of 1 points

Abraham Lincoln believed that

Answer

Selected Answer: separation of the races would have harmful long-term implications.

Correct Answer: slavery should be placed on a course of ultimate extinction.

Question 9

1 out of 1 points

According to South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, Congress lacked the power to

Answer

Selected Answer: exclude slavery from the territories.

Correct Answer: exclude slavery from the territories.

Question 10

1 out of 1 points

According to the doctrine of popular sovereignty, the decision whether to permit slavery in a

territory would be made by the

Answer

Selected Answer: local territorial legislature.

Correct Answer: local territorial legislature.

Question 11

1 out of 1 points

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Answer

Selected Answer: reopened the question of slavery in the territories.

Correct Answer: reopened the question of slavery in the territories.

Question 12

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following events split the Democratic Party during the 1850s?

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Answer

Selected Answer: All of the above.

Correct Answer: All of the above.

Question 13

0 out of 1 points

What was the long-term outcome of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry?

Answer

Selected Answer: The South gave up on slavery.

Correct Answer: Brown was hanged and became a martyr, inflaming tensions and leading

to the Civil War.

Question 14

1 out of 1 points

General Zachary Taylor earned a living in Louisiana as a

Answer

Selected Answer: slave owner.

Correct Answer: slave owner.

Question 15

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following men ran for office in 1860?

Answer



Question 16

1 out of 1 points

All of the following statements are true about the short-term facts of John Brown's raid EXCEPT:

Answer

Selected Answer: The attack was a major military success.

Correct Answer: The attack was a major military success.

Question 17

1 out of 1 points

On April 10, 1861, General __________ of the Confederacy demanded the surrender of Ft.

Sumter.

Answer

Selected Answer: Beauregard

Correct Answer: Beauregard

Question 18

1 out of 1 points

Ex-slave __________ gave passionate public lectures in the northern states and Midwest against

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slavery.

Answer

Selected Answer: Sojourner Truth

Correct Answer: Sojourner Truth

Question 19

1 out of 1 points

A faction of Democrats in New York bolted the party in 1848 and joined with "conscience" Whigs

to form the Free-Soil Party and support __________ for president.

Answer

Selected Answer: Van Buren

Correct Answer: Van Buren

Question 20

0 out of 1 points

The __________ - __________ party opposed immigration, particularly of Catholics, and

especially the Irish.

Answer

Selected Answer: Know Nothing

Correct Answer: Know-,Nothing

Question 1

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following does NOT describe the prison camp experience of American men during

the Civil War?

Answer

Selected Answer: Southern prison commanders received northern praise after the conflict

ended.

Correct Answer: Southern prison commanders received northern praise after the conflict

ended.

Question 2

1 out of 1 points

What roles did women achieve during the war that stood outside of traditional domestic life?

Answer



Question 3

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following were famous Civil War healthcare professionals who revolutionized

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hospital care for the wounded?

Answer



Question 4

0 out of 1 points

The material assets of the North during the Civil War

Answer

Selected Answer: offset the greater supply of manpower in the South.

Correct Answer: became effective only in the long run.

Question 5

1 out of 1 points

The use of the new, longer-range rifles during the Civil War

Answer

Selected Answer: produced a ghastly crop of dead men.

Correct Answer: produced a ghastly crop of dead men.

Question 6

0 out of 1 points

The Civil War transformed race relations in the South as

Answer

Selected Answer: white violence toward blacks intensified with growing frustration over a

losing war effort.

Correct Answer: blacks proved increasingly unwilling to play a subservient role.

Question 7

1 out of 1 points

Placed in command of the Union armies in 1861, General George McClellan

Answer

Selected Answer: wished to win the war "by maneuvering rather than fighting."

Correct Answer: wished to win the war "by maneuvering rather than fighting."

Question 8

1 out of 1 points

The largest civil disturbance of the nineteenth century occurred in New York City in early July

1863, as

Answer

Selected Answer: workers opposed to the draft rioted for three days.

Correct Answer: workers opposed to the draft rioted for three days.

Question 9

1 out of 1 points

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For his cabinet, Lincoln selected

Answer

Selected Answer: important Republicans whether they agreed with him or not.

Correct Answer: important Republicans whether they agreed with him or not.

Question 10

1 out of 1 points

The Battle of Bull Run was a prophetic one in that it showed the

Answer

Selected Answer: possibility that victory would be neither quick nor easy.

Correct Answer: possibility that victory would be neither quick nor easy.

Question 11

1 out of 1 points

The early struggle of the Civil War in the East focused on the capture of __________ , the

Confederacy's capital and one of the South's most important railroad, industrial, and munitions

centers.

Answer

Selected Answer: Richmond

Correct Answer: Richmond

Question 12

1 out of 1 points

Immigrant workers in eastern cities and those who lived in the southern parts of the Midwest

had little sympathy for abolitionism or blacks, supporting the antiwar stance of the Peace

Democrats, often referred to as __________ .

Answer

Selected Answer: Copperheads

Correct Answer: Copperheads

Question 13

1 out of 1 points

Unless rebellious states (or parts of states in rebellion) returned to the Union by January 1, 1863,

the president would declare their slaves "forever free," according to the __________ .

Answer

Selected Answer: Emancipation Proclamation

Correct Answer: Emancipation Proclamation

Question 14

1 out of 1 points

Winfield Scott, the Union commanding general at the beginning of the Civil War, favored a

cautious, long-term strategy known as the __________ .

Answer

Selected Answer: Anaconda Plan

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Correct Answer: Anaconda Plan

Question 15

1 out of 1 points

By December of 1864, the Confederate desertion rate topped 50 percent.

Answer



Question 16

1 out of 1 points

When the war ended, approximately 3 million American men had served in the military on both

sides.

Answer



Question 17

0 out of 1 points

At the end of the war, roughly 30 million African American slaves were free.

Answer



Question 18

1 out of 1 points

The Republican Party completely united behind its war-weary president in the election of 1864.

Answer



Question 19

1 out of 1 points

Historians estimate that southern wealth declined by roughly 43 percent during the war years.

Answer



Question 20

1 out of 1 points

Confederate women played a vital role in caring for the sick and wounded during the war.

Answer



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Instructions

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Question 1

1 out of 1 points

In response to Fort Sumter,

Answer

Selected

Answer: both the North and South witnessed a tremendous

outpouring of support.

Correct

Answer: both the North and South witnessed a tremendous

outpouring of support.

Question 2

1 out of 1 points

Jefferson Davis was observed by his contemporaries as too

Answer

Selected Answer:

preoccupied with details.

Correct Answer:

preoccupied with details.

Question 3

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1 out of 1 points

Placed in command of the Union armies in 1861, General George McClellan

Answer

Selected

Answer: wished to win the war "by maneuvering rather than

fighting."

Correct Answer:

wished to win the war "by maneuvering rather than

fighting."

Question 4

1 out of 1 points

During the early years of the war in the East

Answer

Selected

Answer: a stalemate developed as decisive victory eluded both

sides.

Correct Answer:

a stalemate developed as decisive victory eluded bothsides.

Question 5

1 out of 1 points

Lincoln's early actions as president indicated that he intended to

Answer

Selected Answer:take responsibility for running his own administration.

Correct Answer:

take responsibility for running his own administration.

Question 6

1 out of 1 points

In February 1861, the original seceding states created a provisionalgovernment

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Answer

Selected Answer:

emphasizing the sovereignty of the states.

Correct Answer:emphasizing the sovereignty of the states.

Question 7

1 out of 1 points

Southerners thought that European nations would recognize and support the

Confederacy because of the Europeans'

Answer

Selected Answer:

dependence upon southern cotton.

Correct Answer:

dependence upon southern cotton.

Question 8

0 out of 1 points

The Civil War transformed American society as

Answer

Selected

Answer: Americans became more parochial in their interests and

concerns.

Correct

Answer: economic dislocations reduced the standard of living for

most civilians.

Question 9

1 out of 1 points

The largest civil disturbance of the nineteenth century occurred in New York

City in early July 1863, as

Answer

Selected Answer:

workers opposed to the draft rioted for three days.

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Correct Answer:

workers opposed to the draft rioted for three days.

Question 10

1 out of 1 points

What roles did women achieve during the war that stood outside of traditional

domestic life?

Answer

Selected Answer:

All of the above.

Correct Answer:

All of the above.

Question 11

1 out of 1 points

In the election of 1864, President Lincoln surprised himself, his party, and the

nation by taking 55 percent of the popular vote.

Answer



Question 12

1 out of 1 points

The war made it impossible for many northern and southern women to

conform to traditional gender roles.

Answer



Question 13

0 out of 1 points

By December of 1864, the Confederate desertion rate topped 50 percent.

Answer

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Question 14

0 out of 1 points

The Republican Party completely united behind its war-weary president in the

election of 1864.

Answer



Question 15

1 out of 1 points

Slaveholders eagerly allowed the impressment of their slaves for war work.

Answer



Question 16

0 out of 1 points

Historians estimate that southern wealth declined by roughly 43 percent

during the war years.

Answer



Question 17

0 out of 1 points

Fashionable Washington photographer __________ , realizing that the camera

was the "eye of history," asked Lincoln for permission to record the war.

Answer

Selected Answer: Mathew Brady

Correct Answer: Matthew Brady

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Question 18

0 out of 1 points

InEx parte Merryman, Chief Justice__________ of the Supreme Court ruledthat if the public's safety was endangered, only Congress had the right to

suspend the writ of habeas corpus.

Answer

Selected Answer: Roger Taney

Correct Answer: Roger B. Taney

Question 19

1 out of 1 points

Unless rebellious states (or parts of states in rebellion) returned to the Union

by January 1, 1863, the president would declare their slaves "forever free,"

according to the __________ .

Answer

Selected Answer: Emancipation Proclamation

Correct Answer: Emancipation Proclamation

Question 20

1 out of 1 points

Winfield Scott, the Union commanding general at the beginning of the Civil

War, favored a cautious, long-term strategy known as the __________ .

Answer

Selected Answer: Anaconda Plan

Correct Answer: Anaconda Plan

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Submitted 7/20/12 9:16 AM

Status Completed

Score 15 out of 20 points

Time Elapsed 22 minutes out of 40 minutes.

Instructions

false

Question 1

0 out of 1 points

An effective argument against the Wilmot Proviso was the fact that Congress

had never before restricted the extension of slavery into new territories.

Answer



Question 2

1 out of 1 points

Frederick Douglass gave a famous Independence Day speech in 1852 that

symbolized the increasing stridency of free blacks against slavery.

Answer



Question 3

1 out of 1 points

The arrival of Irish and German immigrants spurred an anti-Catholic backlash

from the Anglo American Protestant core of the nation.

Answer



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Question 4

1 out of 1 points

Popular sovereignty appealed to some politicians because its ambiguityenabled people to interpret it as they pleased.

Answer



Question 5

0 out of 1 points

Many northerners responded to John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry with

sympathy.

Answer



Question 6

0 out of 1 points

Senator Stephen Douglas argued that the provisions of the Compromise of

1850 should be voted on as a package rather than individually to demonstrate

national unity.

Answer



Question 7

1 out of 1 points

Northerners supported all of the following EXCEPT

Answer

Selected Answer:

immigration and trade restrictions.

Correct Answer:

immigration and trade restrictions.

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Question 8

1 out of 1 points

According to South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, Congress lacked thepower to

Answer

Selected Answer:

exclude slavery from the territories.

Correct Answer:

exclude slavery from the territories.

Question 9

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following was NOT part of the long-term historical importance

of the Scott case?

Answer

Selected

Answer: Many African American slaves rebelled after the

decision.

Correct Answer:

Many African American slaves rebelled after the

decision.

Question 10

1 out of 1 points

In the Freeport debate against Lincoln, Stephen Douglas argued that slavery

Answer

Selected Answer:

could not exist without favorable local legislation.

Correct Answer:

could not exist without favorable local legislation.

Question 11

1 out of 1 points

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The rejection of the Lecompton Constitution in 1858 meant that

Answer

Selected Answer:

Kansas would remain a territory.

Correct Answer:

Kansas would remain a territory.

Question 12

1 out of 1 points

General Zachary Taylor earned a living in Louisiana as a

Answer

Selected Answer:

slave owner.

Correct Answer:

slave owner.

Question 13

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following men ran for office in 1860?

Answer

Selected Answer:

All of the above.

Correct Answer:

All of the above.

Question 14

1 out of 1 points

Which of the following issues faced the nation in 1849?

Answer

Selected Answer:

All of the above.

Correct Answer:

All of the above.

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Question 15

1 out of 1 points

Northerners were offended by the provision of the Fugitive Slave Act thatAnswer

Selected

Answer: designated a higher fee for commissioners deciding to return

rather than free a fugitive.

Correct

Answer: designated a higher fee for commissioners deciding to return

rather than free a fugitive.

Question 16

1 out of 1 points

All of the following statements are true about Dred Scott and his legal case

EXCEPT:

Answer

Selected Answer:

The court ruled that Scott was a citizen.

Correct Answer:

The court ruled that Scott was a citizen.

Question 17

0 out of 1 points

Ex-slave __________ gave passionate public lectures in the northern states

and Midwest against slavery.

Answer

Selected Answer: Frederick Douglass

Correct Answer: Sojourner Truth

Question 18

0 out of 1 points

The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 was the __________ ,

appeasing southerners but infuriating northerners.

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Answer

Selected Answer: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Correct Answer: Fugitive Slave Act

Question 19

1 out of 1 points

When President Lincoln met __________ in 1863, he is reported to have said,

"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."

Answer

Selected Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Correct Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 20

1 out of 1 points

On April 10, 1861, General __________ of the Confederacy demanded the

surrender of Ft. Sumter.

Answer

Selected Answer: Beauregard

Correct Answer: Beauregard

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