From 1800 to 1850, the land area of the United States __________. A) more than doubled B) more than tripled C) more than quadrupled D) remained unchanged ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Kansas-Nebraska Act opened Indian Territory to American settlers __________. A) as slave territories B) under the Wilmot Proviso C) if they would agree to kill all Indians on sight D) under the principle of popular sovereignty ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of these states seceded after the Civil War began? A) South Carolina B) Arkansas C) Maryland D) Texas ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
How did enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law galvanize abolitionist support in the North? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: terms of the Fugitive Slave Law; reaction of free black communities; personal liberty laws; Anthony Burns
Date: September 9th, 2020
During the Civil War, the tribes in Indian Territory __________. A) sided with the Union B) stayed neutral C) had their own civil war as they split between Union and Confederacy D) became a well-disciplined brigade under Stonewall Jackson ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Sherman’s march to Savannah was primarily designed to __________. A) make it easier for slaves from the Deep South to escape B) cut off Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama from the rest of the Confederacy C) destroy Confederate coastal ports D) obtain stored cotton for the industrial mills of the North ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
After the fall of Fort Sumter, Lincoln called up the state militias, ordered a naval blockade of the South, and __________. A) imposed a curfew on all large cities B) suspended all forthcoming elections C) cut taxes across the board D) vastly expanded the military budget ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The premise behind Thaddeus Stevens’s view of Reconstruction was that the South should be __________. A) industrialized B) returned to the rule of the planter elite C) controlled by corporate farms that would replace the old plantation system D) populated with black and white yeoman ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
White soldiers who remained in the South after the war were derisively called __________. A) scalawags B) interlopers C) tramps D) carpetbaggers ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
As the maps of the Barrow Plantation show, __________. A) few former slaves stayed on their masters’ plantations B) most former slaves became landowners C) many former slaves remained on the plantations as sharecroppers and tenants D) freedmen were unable to form separate communities ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
