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
What was the Freedmen’s Bureau and what did it accomplish? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: education; land; voting; employment; alternative views of Reconstruction
Date: September 9th, 2020
The cattle drives in the 1860s-1870s would not have been possible without __________. A) steamship transport from the Texas coast to New York City B) rail lines to eastern markets C) new laws establishing American ownership of range cattle D) the Homestead Act ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Navajo and Hopi are examples of tribal groups that __________. A) vanished under white pressure B) assimilated and merged into white society C) held onto their lands and survived by adapting D) became dependents of the Office of Indian Affairs ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Compare the real West to the mythic West. What made the myth of the West so compelling to so many people? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: Western realities; Western myths; manifest destiny; views of nature; views of Indian peoples
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which group would have been least likely to get jobs in trades such as construction and restaurant service? A) immigrant women B) non-English speakers C) African Americans D) immigrant men ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
