The nullification crisis was precipitated by southern disappointment with congressional action on A) the Tariff of 1832. B) Indian policy. C) the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States. D) the preemption acts. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
During the Gilded Age, the Republican Party could usually count on the votes of all of the following EXCEPT A) religious minorities. B) wealthy businessmen. C) reformers. D) African Americans. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the central issue that dominated American politics during the 1850s? A) the constitutionality of slavery B) territorial expansion C) the morality of slavery D) slavery in the western territories ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the primary reason the Plains Indians were unable to resist white encroachment onto the Plains? A) the absence of a warrior tradition in the tribes B) the assimilationist policy of the federal government C) the destruction of the buffalo herds D) the Indians’ lack of a sense of “territory” to be defended […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The various factions in the Whig Party coalition were united by their common opposition to A) federal interference in the economy. B) slavery. C) Andrew Jackson. D) humanitarian reform. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
In its final form, the Compromise of 1850 did NOT include a provision to have Congress A) require Texas to abandon its claim to New Mexico territory. B) admit California to the Union as a free state. C) abolish the slave trade in the District of Columbia. D) deny itself the power to regulate the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The new Fugitive Slave Law enacted in 1850 A) required ordinary citizens to assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves. B) was carefully designed to protect the basic civil liberties of fugitive slaves and northern free African Americans. C) generally went unenforced. D) was ruled unconstitutional in Prigg v. Pennsylvania. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The text authors state that for freedmen in the South, “emancipation had come piecemeal.” Describe the process of slave emancipation from 1861 to 1865. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: Confiscation Acts; Emancipation Proclamation; actions of the Union Army; Thirteenth Amendment; notification of the slaves in the South.
Date: September 9th, 2020
Explain on what basis Lincoln and Johnson justified their assumptions of Reconstruction policy and the basis on which Congress justified its takeover of Reconstruction. What specific events moved Congress to take Reconstruction out of the hands of the president? ANSWER Lincoln’s and Johnson’s policies rested on the president’s power to pardon. To them, states […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Early Maryland first served as a A) haven for persecuted Catholics. B) Dutch trading post. C) home for Puritan separatists. D) penal colony. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
