The Compromise of 1850 essentially restored the Missouri Compromise.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
The Compromise of 1850 was the product of broad agreement on common national
ideals.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
Stephen Douglas was a strong opponent of the transcontinental railroad.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
The Kansas-Nebraska Act included an explicit repeal of the Missouri
Compromise.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
The Kansas-Nebraska Act had the very strong support of southern congressmen.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
The Missouri Compromise and the doctrine of popular sovereignty were one and
the same thing.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
Abolitionism and free soil were essentially the same thing.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was a pro-slavery woman.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
The Dred Scott decision represented a stunning defeat for the antislavery
movement.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled with the majority in the Dred Scott case.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
The Dred Scott decision went no further than ruling that blacks were not
citizens of the United States.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
Lincoln and the Republicans advocated the social equality of the races.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
Abraham Lincoln believed that slavery was wrong, but he was not an
abolitionist.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
The Democrats ran two candidates in the election of 1860.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
Lincoln was elected in 1860 with a majority of the electoral college vote,
but with less than a majority of the popular vote.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
The South was committed to fighting a defensive war.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
Opinion about the war was more divided in the North than in the South.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
Lincoln dared to fight the Civil War without a formal declaration of war, but
he did not dare suspend habeas corpus.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
Despite being a Democrat, Andrew Johnson was selected to run with Lincoln in
1864.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
At the start of the Civil War, Lincoln was closer to the Conservative
Republicans than to the Radical Republicans.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
In both the North and the South draftees could avoid military service if they
hired substitutes.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
Almost all of the fighting during the Civil War took place within the
boundaries of the Confederacy.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
Confederate leaders were more terrified of slave revolts during the war than
they had been in peacetime.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
Congress realized that Lincoln was commander in chief and gave him a fairly
free hand in conducting the war as he saw fit.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
The North had such an overwhelming advantage in naval power that its blockade
of the South was completely effective.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: B
In the early part of the Civil War, the sympathies of the ruling classes in
France and England lay with the South.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
Both Antietam and Shiloh could be described as Union victories.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
After the Battle of Gettysburg the weakened Confederate armies were never
again able to threaten Northern territory at all seriously.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
C.
D.
E.
Answer: A
Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white Southerners charged,
nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many Northerners claimed.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
Even at the end of his life Lincoln continued to insist that the Confederate
government had no legal right to exist.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
Most Democrats favored a reconstruction process that would readmit the former
Confederate states to the Union quickly.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
By the time of his death Lincoln's sympathies had shifted from essential
allegiance to the moderate wing of his party to casting his lot with the
Radical Republicans.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: B
The Wade-Davis Bill sought to make it more difficult than Lincoln desired for
those states which had left the Union to return.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
John Wilkes Booth, like John Brown, stood trial and was executed for his
deeds.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: B
President Johnson vetoed both the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act
of 1866.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
The congressional elections of 1866 resulted in a resounding victory for the
Republicans.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
The Fifteenth Amendment was unanimously supported by the Northern states and
unanimously opposed by the former slave states.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: B
President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
"Scalawags" and "carpetbaggers" were both Northerners who moved south after
the Civil War.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: B
The most numerous Republicans in the South were the black freedmen.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
In the South as a whole, the percentage of black officeholders during
Reconstruction was always far lower than the percentage of blacks in the
population.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
The most ambitious goal of the Radical Republicans was to reform
landownership in the South.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
During Reconstruction the black share of profits may have been rising, but
the total profits of Southern agriculture were declining.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
As sharecroppers, the black labor force in the South worked hours that were
just as long as had been the case under slavery.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: B
Answer: A
The Panic of 1873 was the worst the country had faced to that point in its
history.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
The Grant administration achieved its greatest successes in foreign affairs.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
The Ku Klux Klan could be described as a veterans organization and as a
racist organization, but not as a terrorist organization.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: B
The Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 won a majority of the popular
vote, but he did not win the presidency.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
Despite significant industrial growth, the South remained primarily agrarian
in the final decades of the nineteenth century.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
Tenant farming increased significantly in the South in the two decades
following Reconstruction.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: A
Booker T. Washington argued that blacks should concentrate on self
improvement even as they lobbied for political rights.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: B
The Supreme Court generally struck down civil rights laws and upheld black
voting rights in the late nineteenth century.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: B
Segregation of the races in the late nineteenth century at least meant
declining violence against blacks.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: B
In the late-nineteenth-century South, race played a secondary role to
economic issues in politics.
A.  TRUE
B.  FALSE
Answer: B