How does Bent’s Fort illustrate the issues of a frontier of inclusion? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: multiethnic population; inhabitants and relationships; differences between Bent’s Fort and Texas
Date: September 9th, 2020
Incidents involving Anthony Burns and Thomas Sims demonstrated that the federal government __________. A) had no desire to offend northern abolitionists B) would vigorously enforce the Fugitive Slave Law C) would only enforce the Fugitive Slave Law in the South D) would use the Fugitive Slave Law to recover blacks who fled to Canada […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Lecompton constitution was an unsuccessful attempt to create a state government for __________. A) California B) Texas C) Kansas D) Missouri ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Residents of which of these states swept into Kansas to support the establishment of slavery in the territory? A) Indiana B) Ohio C) Illinois D) Missouri ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
When the new Confederate government issued its call to arms, __________. A) men flocked to enlist B) slaves began to escape in record numbers C) most poor whites refused to answer D) many Southerners were ambivalent about joining up ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The tide was turned in the 1864 election by __________. A) Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg B) a scandal involving leading Copperheads C) the diplomatic recognition of the Confederacy by Britain D) the capture of Atlanta ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
During the war, Lincoln played a role most similar to this earlier president’s. A) Washington B) Jefferson C) Polk D) Buchanan ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free the slaves, what effects did it have? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: terms of the Emancipation Proclamation; impact in the North; impact in the South; reaction of free blacks; reaction of slaves
Date: September 9th, 2020
One of the most lasting African American institutions and the first they fully controlled was the __________. A) school B) Freedmen’s Bureau C) church D) state legislatures ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Johnson, like Lincoln, held the view that Reconstruction __________. A) should punish the South for secession B) should make it impossible for secession to ever happen again C) needed to be a complete socioeconomic transformation D) was a presidential function ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
