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Early US History Unit 3 Review

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  • Identify the historical event depicted in the image.
    The 'Caning of Sumner'
  • Identify the image.
    The Alamo
  • What Constitutional amendment forbid the use of slavery?
    13th Amendment
  • What was the famous rallying cry by American settlers in Texas in their effort to gain independence from Mexico?
    Remember the Alamo!
  • Explain the circumstances led to the event known as 'Bleeding Kansas'
    Pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers attempted to intimidate and outnumber each other for purposes of determining the status of slavery in Kansas
  • The Emancipation Proclamation applied to what region? (Answer by color)
    Red (Confederate States)
  • What other country laid claim to the Oregon Territory and was the target of the '54˚-40' or Fight' slogan?
    Great Britain (England)
  • Identify ONE demand of the Radical Republicans regarding Reconstruction.
    citizenship for freed Blacks; guarantee civil rights/equal treatment under the law; guarantee Black men the right to vote; military sent to South
  • What did the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo do?
    formally ended the Mexican-American War; ceded the Mexican Cession (southwestern territories) to the United States
  • What war did the U.S. participate in that resulted in gaining the territory of California?
    Mexican-American War
  • Who was the individual who heavily promoted the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
    Senator Stephen Douglas (Illinois)
  • How did Texas become part of the United States?
    It was annexed by Congress in 1844; it entered the union as a slave state
  • Who is pictured in this image?
    Ulysses S. Grant
  • In 1860 what was the Republican Party's platform regarding slavery?
    The party was against the spread of slavery into the western territories
  • Which president's Reconstruction plan was the MOST lenient as it called for only 10% of a Southern state's male population to declare their loyalty to the Union?
    Abraham Lincoln's Plan
  • In what year was the California Gold Rush?
    1849
  • What did grandfather clauses do?
    A loophole exempted any citizen whose grandfather had been eligible to vote in 1867 from other voting requirements; protected poor whites' voting ability
  • What was ONE outcome of the Missouri Compromise (1820)?
    Missouri entered union as a slave state; Maine entered into the union as a free state; the 36˚-30' line would establish the future of slavery in the territories
  • What battle is considered the turning point in the Civil War?
    Battle of Gettysburg
  • Explain the significance of this image to the Civil War.
    The long-range accuracy of the Minié ball made traditional infantry assaults outdated; large number of amputations/casualties as the bullet shattered bones
  • It is an example of THIS concept pictured here.
    Jim Crow / segregation
  • Explain the significance of the Battle of Antietam.
    Union victory provided President Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation; bloodiest single day battle in US History
  • Identify ONE outcome of the Dred Scott ruling by the Supreme Court.
    blacks had no Constitutional rights; Congress had no power to limit where slavery could exist; The Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional
  • By what means did the United States settle the Oregon Territory dispute with Great Britain?
    a treaty (Treaty of Oregon)
  • What sparked the Mexican-American War?
    A border dispute regarding the southern boundary of Texas
  • What President's administration is BEST connected to the Manifest Destiny era?
    James K. Polk
  • Who was author of the book pictured here?
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • WHAT is the nickname of the Democrat Party coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy?
    The Redeemers
  • Because of the success of the underground railroad, what did Southerners demand?
    A stronger fugitive slave law be passed by Congress requiring the return of runaway slaves by northerners
  • What did Abraham Lincoln, an Illinois Congressman, propose in response to the U.S. declaration of war against Mexico?
    The 'Spot Resolution'
  • Identify ONE provision of the Compromise of 1877.
    Rutherford B. Hayes (Repub.) was declared the presidential winner; remaining military would be taken out of Southern states; military reconstruction ends
  • What is the significance of the firing on Ft. Sumter?
    Confederate forces attacked a union fort in South Carolina; Lincoln responded by asking for volunteer federal army to put down the Confederate rebellion
  • Identify ONE negative consequence of sharecropping.
    trapping freedmen in poverty and debt for generations; kept them on plantations
  • What is the name given to the region marked in yellow?
    The Gadsden Purchase
  • What individual is depicted in the center of the image?
    John Brown
  • The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the North American continent was both justified and inevitable defines what term?
    Manifest Destiny
  • Identify ONE goal/action of the Reconstruction era Ku Klux Klan.
    undermine the Republican Party; maintain black economic instability; ensure white racial and economic superiority in South; prevent Blacks from voting
  • Explain ONE advantage that the South had over the North during the Civil War.
    The South had a strong military tradition and a number of trained officers for its armies; the Confederates would be fighting on their own territory
  • Within two decades following Reconstruction, white Southern Democrat controlled state governments created a series of segregation legislation better known by THIS nickname.
    Jim Crow laws
  • What is popular sovereignty?
    a political concept that allowed the residents of the territories themselves, rather than Congress, to determine whether to permit or prohibit slavery
  • This individual became President as a result of the Compromise of 1877.
    Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
  • Identify ONE provision of the Compromise of 1850.
    California entered the union as a free state; popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico territories; no slave auctions in D.C.; stronger fugitive slave law
  • What was the outcome of the Texas War for Independence?
    Texas received its independence from Mexico
  • This president was impeached by Congress during Reconstruction because he did not support sending the military back into the South to protect and defend freed B
    Andrew Johnson
  • The presidential slogan: "54º-40' or Fight" applies to which area of land?
    Oregon Territory
  • Identify ONE hot button issue of debate that resulted from the California Gold Rush.
    California's entry into the Union; route of the transcontinental railroad
  • Identify ONE outcome of the Presidential Election of 1860
    Abraham Lincoln becomes President; southern states begin to secede from the Union
  • What did the 15th Amendment do?
    granted African American men the right to vote; states cannot deny a citizen the right to vote because of race/color/previous servitude
  • What was the status of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska terriories (the purple areas depicted on the map) per the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
    popular sovereignty was used; settlers who lived in those territories voted as to whether they would be slave or free
  • This battle located on the map was a crucial success for the Union army under General Grant; ended the Confederacy's hopes of blocking the Union advance into Mississippi
    Battle of Shiloh
  • Freedmen were not allowed to vote, hold office, sit on juries, serve in local militia, carry guns on plantations, homestead, or attend public schools are all examples of THIS concept during Reconstruction.
    Black Codes
  • What was the Pottawatomie Massacre?
    Murder of 5 pro-slavery settlers in Kansas by John Brown and his sons as revenge for a previous attack on an anti-slavery settlement
  • Identify the president that attempted to bring an end to the KKK and used the military to protect freedmen civil rights in the South during Reconstruction.
    President Ulysses S. Grant
  • What political party was created in protest to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
    The Republican Party
  • Which civil war battle resulted in a Confederate victory and forced both the North and South to face the sobering reality that the war was going to be long and bloody?
    Battle of Bull Run
  • What was the intent of the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
    steal weapons and ammunition from the federal arsenal and distribute them to nearby slaves to spark a large slave rebellion
  • Identify ONE component of the 14th Amendment.
    granted citizenship to freedmen; guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law; no state can deprive any person of life/liberty/property, w/o due process
  • The individual pictured here was the president of the Confederate States of America.
    Jefferson Davis
  • The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a political state is defined by what term?
    secession
  • Driven to find work, most freedmen took part in this economic activity during Reconstruction.
    sharecropping
  • Military Reconstruction, as seen in this image, took place during this individual's presidency.
    Ulysses S. Grant
  • Who was the victorious general at the Battle of Chancellorsville?
    Confederate General Robert E. Lee
  • Identify ONE way that white Southern Democrats were able to undermine the 15th Amendment?
    poll taxes; literacy tests; fear/intimidation (by groups such as the KKK)
  • What aspect of Manifest Destiny made it controversial to many Americans?
    The issue of the spread of slavery to territories added to the U.S.
  • Some historians argue that extremism/radicalism in the 1850s were a large factor leading to the Civil War. Identify ONE example of this.
    Raid on Harpers Ferry; Caning of Sumner; Bleeding Kansas; Publishing of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Pictured here, it is an example of THIS concept.
    literacy tests
  • What was the purpose of poll taxes?
    Due to the disproportionate levels of poverty among African Americans in the Southern states, many Blacks – as well as poor Whites – were excluded from voting.
  • What is the name given to this region [marked in red]?
    Mexican Cession
  • What Congressional program was created to assist freed slaves by providing them help to reunite families, find work, and provide educational opportunities after the Civil War.
    Freedmen's Bureau
  • In this Civil War reenactment photograph, what army is being depicted? (Union or Confederate)
    The Union army (blue uniforms)
  • What landmark Supreme Court case declared segregation constitutional under the principle of 'separate but equal?'
    Plessy v. Ferguson
  • Where did General Lee surrender his Confederate army to General Grant which basically brought the Civil War to an end?
    Appomattox Court House
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