The Compromise of 1850 essentially restored the Missouri Compromise.    	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Compromise of 1850 was the product of broad agreement on common national ideals.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Stephen Douglas was a strong opponent of the transcontinental railroad.    	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Kansas-Nebraska Act included an explicit repeal of the Missouri Compromise.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Kansas-Nebraska Act had the very strong support of southern congressmen.    	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Missouri Compromise and the doctrine of popular sovereignty were one and the same thing.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Abolitionism and free soil were essentially the same thing.    	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was a pro-slavery woman.    	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Dred Scott decision represented a stunning defeat for the antislavery movement.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled with the majority in the Dred Scott case.    	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Dred Scott decision went no further than ruling that blacks were not citizens of the United States.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Lincoln and the Republicans advocated the social equality of the races.    	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Abraham Lincoln believed that slavery was wrong, but he was not an abolitionist.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Democrats ran two candidates in the election of 1860.    	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Lincoln was elected in 1860 with a majority of the electoral college vote, but with less than a majority of the popular vote.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The South was committed to fighting a defensive war.    	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Opinion about the war was more divided in the North than in the South.    	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Lincoln dared to fight the Civil War without a formal declaration of war, but he did not dare suspend habeas corpus.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Despite being a Democrat, Andrew Johnson was selected to run with Lincoln in 1864.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
At the start of the Civil War, Lincoln was closer to the Conservative Republicans than to the Radical Republicans.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
In both the North and the South draftees could avoid military service if they hired substitutes.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Almost all of the fighting during the Civil War took place within the boundaries of the Confederacy.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Confederate leaders were more terrified of slave revolts during the war than they had been in peacetime.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Congress realized that Lincoln was commander in chief and gave him a fairly free hand in conducting the war as he saw fit.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The North had such an overwhelming advantage in naval power that its blockade of the South was completely effective.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
In the early part of the Civil War, the sympathies of the ruling classes in France and England lay with the South.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Both Antietam and Shiloh could be described as Union victories.    	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
After the Battle of Gettysburg the weakened Confederate armies were never again able to threaten Northern territory at all seriously.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Reconstruction was neither a vicious tyranny, as white Southerners charged, nor a thoroughgoing reform, as many Northerners claimed.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Even at the end of his life Lincoln continued to insist that the Confederate government had no legal right to exist.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Most Democrats favored a reconstruction process that would readmit the former Confederate states to the Union quickly.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
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.  	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Wade-Davis Bill sought to make it more difficult than Lincoln desired for those states which had left the Union to return.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
John Wilkes Booth, like John Brown, stood trial and was executed for his deeds.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
President Johnson vetoed both the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The congressional elections of 1866 resulted in a resounding victory for the Republicans.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Fifteenth Amendment was unanimously supported by the Northern states and unanimously opposed by the former slave states.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
President Johnson was impeached, but not convicted.    	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
"Scalawags" and "carpetbaggers" were both Northerners who moved south after the Civil War.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The most numerous Republicans in the South were the black freedmen.    	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
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.  	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The most ambitious goal of the Radical Republicans was to reform landownership in the South.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
During Reconstruction the black share of profits may have been rising, but the total profits of Southern agriculture were declining.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
As sharecroppers, the black labor force in the South worked hours that were just as long as had been the case under slavery.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Answer: A The Panic of 1873 was the worst the country had faced to that point in its history.  	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Grant administration achieved its greatest successes in foreign affairs.    	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Ku Klux Klan could be described as a veterans organization and as a racist organization, but not as a terrorist organization.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Democratic presidential candidate in 1876 won a majority of the popular vote, but he did not win the presidency.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Despite significant industrial growth, the South remained primarily agrarian in the final decades of the nineteenth century.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Tenant farming increased significantly in the South in the two decades following Reconstruction.   	1	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Booker T. Washington argued that blacks should concentrate on self improvement even as they lobbied for political rights.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
The Supreme Court generally struck down civil rights laws and upheld black voting rights in the late nineteenth century.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
Segregation of the races in the late nineteenth century at least meant declining violence against blacks.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE   	   	   	   	
In the late-nineteenth-century South, race played a secondary role to economic issues in politics.   	2	TRUE   	FALSE