Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or

answers the question.

1. Mexico's main grievance against the United States before the

Mexican War was based upon the:

A) large debts the United States owed her.

B) invasion of California by John Charles Fremont.

C) intrigues of John Slidell.

D) annexation of Texas.

2. In 1846, the United States signed a treaty dividing the Oregon

Territory along the 49th parallel with:

A) Great Britain.

B) Russia.

C) France.

D) Spain.

3. Zachary Taylor was chosen to run for president by the Whigs in

1848 because of his:

A) great political sophistication.

B) opposition to slavery.

C) military career.

D) proven ability to campaign.

4. John C. Calhoun and Ralph Waldo Emerson both agreed:

A) that slavery was good for the nation.

B) on the Fugitive Slave Act.

C) that territories gained from Mexico would cause the greatest

crisis the nation would ever face.

D) on Millard Fillmore's position of slavery.

5. The New England Emigrant Aid Society provided "Beecher Bibles"

that were used in Kansas to:

A) give Indians the Christian view point.

B) bring about a common understanding between the two sides.

C) used to shoot pro-slavery people.

D) voted in a pro-slavery government.

6. The first state to leave the Union in 1860 was:

A) Mississippi.

B) Virginia.

C) South Carolina.

D) North Carolina.

7. The American Civil War was in the beginning fought to:

A) destroy slavery.

B) please the abolitionists.

C) preserve the Union.

D) punish the South.

8. Southerners were encouraged at the beginning of the war by all

of these facts EXCEPT:

A) all the border states had joined the Confederacy.

B) the South had superior officer personnel.

C) they would have to defend only short "interior" lines in

fighting.

D) some people in the North supported their right to leave the

Union.

9. Davis's "cotton diplomacy" met with defeat in 1861 because:

A) Britain had stopped using cotton.

B) Britain was most in need of Union wheat.

C) Britain knew the South could not win.

D) Union ships help seizing Confederate agents before they could

get to Britain.

10. The brutality of Sherman's "march to the sea" according to the

textbook:

A) was finally stopped by an executive order from Lincoln.

B) led to the support of the South by the French.

C) was a major turning point in the history of warfare in that

civilians were not brought directly into the conflict.

D) destroyed the Union's chances of getting control of the Deep

South

11. General Grant's plan to defeat Lee included:

A) keeping Lee's armies too busy to join other rebel forces,

while Sherman's army would sweep into Atlanta.

B) a direct assault on rebel strongholds in the North.

C) retreating to Washington to prevent its capture.

D) planning a major battle at Gettysburg.

12. The Civil War ended and two major questions were decided. One

was a moral question about slavery. The other was a political

one. What did the Union victory in the war decide politically?

A) The democratic party was dead.

B) The union was saved.

C) All people in the United States were politically equal.

D) The rights of states were equal to the federal government.

13. The Freedman's Bureau attempted to:

A) help the union troops.

B) give all Southerners land.

C) start sharecropping.

D) insure Blacks' rights.

14. The Black Codes were:

A) laws adopted by southern states in 1865 and 1866 which

severely restricted freedmen's liberties.

B) a set of resolutions adopted by radical Republicans which

outlined their principles for reconstruction.

C) guidelines for the Freedmen's Bureau in redistributing land.

D) the laws adopted by black South Carolina legislators in order

to equalize educational opportunities for blacks.

15. Under President Johnson's Reconstruction, the new southern

governments:

A) calmed the North by accepting the obvious results of the war.

B) angered the North by refusing to end slavery.

C) pacified the North by their devotion to the Union.

D) provoked the North by electing former Confederate leaders to

Congress.

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