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Refers to the Southern culture of segregation that existed for almost a century after the Civil War
Sufferage
Jim Crow
Nullification
Manifest Destiny
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court ruled:
Impeachment of President Johnson was constitutional
the principle of judicial review was established in the United States,
Separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites was legal
the legality of the national bank and a tax that that a state imposed on it.
Which senator alienated his antislavery constituents with his Seventh of March speech delivered in support of the Compromise of 1850?
Daniel Webster
William H. Seward
Stephen Douglas
John C. Calhoun
In what year was Texas annexed into the United States?
1836
1845
1849
1855
The New Mexico and _____________ Territories were organized as part of the Compromise of 1850.
California
Nevada
Utah
Arizona
One of the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 was to assist ___________________ in paying its debts.
Missouri
California
Texas
Louisiana
Which president was elected in 1844 on a platform supporting expansion and Manifest Destiny?
John Quincy Adams
William H. Harrison
Zachary Taylor
James K. Polk
All of the following were western trails taken by American pioneers EXCEPT
California
Mormon
Texas
Oregon
Which president signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act into law?
Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
Zachary Taylor
Franklin Pierce
Members of the Know Nothing Party feared the influence of the ___________________ religion, which they believed was a threat to republicanism.
Methodist
Jewish
Catholic
Islamic
Which of these government policies led directly to the founding of the Republican Party in the 1850s?
Fugitive Slave Act
Dred Scott Decision
Gadsden Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska Act
In which election did the Republican Party first compete for the presidency?
1848
1856
1860
1864
Which of these men was not part of the "Great Triumvirate" of the US senators in the mid-antebellum period?
William H. Seward
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
"Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" was a slogan employed by expansionists in reference to __________________.
Texas
California
Kansas
Oregon
Which of these treaties concluded the Mexican-American War?
Guadalcanal
San Jacinto
Guadalupe Hidalgo
San Francisco
Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War were referred to by their Republican opponents as...
Copperheads
Rattlers
Cobras
Anacondas
The political phenomenon in which the Southern states supported the Democratic party nearly exclusively between 1877 and 1964 was known as the _________________ South.
Sturdy
Solid
New
Unbroken
The Ku Klux Klan targeted all of the following groups with its intimidation tactics EXCEPT
Freedmen
Democrats
Republicans
Carpetbaggers
Which of these states was a slave state that did NOT secede from the Union
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
North Carolina
Which amendment did Congress require former Confederate states to ratify in order to be re-admitted into the Union during Radical Reconstruction?
Thirteenth
Fourteenth
Fifteenth
Sixteenth
Which election marked the end of Reconstruction?
1864
1872
1876
1880
In Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, his opponents ended up being ________ vote(s) short of the votes required for a conviction.
one
two
five
seven
After which battle did Lincoln issue the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
Fredricksburg
Antietam
Gettysburg
Shiloh
Which of the following battles is most often cited at the "turning point" of the American Civil War?
Appomattox
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Gettysburg
During Reconstruction, Southern whites who cooperated with the Republican Party were known as ______________.
carpetbaggers
redeemers
jayhawkers
scalawags
Which African American volunteer regiment was the subject of the award-winning 1989 film, Glory?
54th Massachusetts
26th Pennsylvania
42nd Maine
38th New Jersey
Which president cooperated with the Reconstruction policies of the Radical Republicans?
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Rutherford B. Hayes
Lincoln's legislative maneuver that allowed him to veto the Wade-Davis Bill by ignoring it is known as a ________________ veto.
Curtain
Closet
Silent
Which amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery throughout the United States?
Twelfth
Thirteenth
Fourteenth
Fifteenth
The overall Union war strategy was outlined in Gen. Winfield Scott's ______________ Plan.
Copperhead
Cobra
Boa
Anaconda
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