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AP US History Quiz on Period 5 Quiz, created by Tumaini Sango on 19/12/2016.
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Question 1

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Refers to the Southern culture of segregation that existed for almost a century after the Civil War was called:
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  • Jim Crow
  • Uncle Tom

Question 2

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The primary focus of women's reform movements in the fifty years after the Civil War was the:
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  • Struggle for wage equality
  • Suffrage

Question 3

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In Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court ruled that:
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  • Grandfather clauses were illegal
  • Separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites was legal.

Question 4

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The term "redemption" as used in the Reconstruction era refers to:
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  • Programs that were introduced in the period to integrate ex-slaves into Southern society as citizens
  • The post-Reconstruction return of the South to white rule.

Question 5

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President Andrew Johnson was impeached as a result of his:
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  • Violation of the Tenure of Office Act
  • Veto of the Civil Rights Bill of 1866

Question 6

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The ultimate consequence of the sharecropping system for the South was:
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  • A gradual increase in the region's overall crop yields and productivity
  • An increase in poverty for both blacks and whites

Question 7

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All of the following were major elements of the Union strategy for victory in the Civil War EXCEPT:
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  • Impressing ex-slaves into the Union army
  • Preventing European powers from entering the conflict

Question 8

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At the outset of the war, which of the following was the greatest advantage possessed by the Confederacy:
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  • Superior military leadership
  • Its influence in the border states

Question 9

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The Emancipation Proclamation had which of the following effects:
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  • It freed all the slaves in the South
  • It prevented England and France from joining the conflict.

Question 10

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The faction of Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War became known as the
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  • Know-Nothings
  • Copperheads

Question 11

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The logic and reasoning employed by Southerners in seceding from the Union borrowed heavily from the:
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  • Declaration of Independence
  • Concept of popular sovereignty

Question 12

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The Republican Party campaign platform of 1860 called for:
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  • The restriction of slavery from the territories
  • The immediate abolition of slavery

Question 13

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Which of the following statements best explains why the Mormons migrated west:
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  • The lure of easy gold strikes in California probed irresistible to them
  • They were seeking out their own new promised land

Question 14

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Which of the following was NOT a result or consequence of the Dred Scott decision of 1857:
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  • Congress had no right to restrict slavery in the territories
  • The Fugitive Slave Act was repealed

Question 15

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In the 19th century, Southerners used all of the following arguments to justify slavery EXCEPT:
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  • Slavery provided a civilizing influence for the slave
  • The international slave trade was highly profitable for all regions of the country

Question 16

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What became the most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850:
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  • The admission of California as a free state
  • The Fugitive Slave Act

Question 17

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Theory that individual states do not necessarily have to carry out any federal laws with which they disagree is known as:
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  • Popular sovereignty
  • Nullification

Question 18

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A result of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852:
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  • The Underground Railroad was formed
  • Abolitionism gained ground in the North

Question 19

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In terms of politics, the 1850s were noteworthy because they witnessed the:
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  • Decline in the power of the free-soil movement
  • Dissolution of national political parties over sectional concerns

Question 20

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Advocated for the immediate and uncompensated release of all slaves held in the United States?
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  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • Abraham Lincoln

Question 21

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Southern critics of slavery most often asserted that:
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  • Slavery was immoral
  • The plantation economy made the South a colony of the North

Question 22

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As whites moved westward into Indian territories in the last half of the 19th century:
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  • Indians were granted U.S. citizenship through the reservation system
  • The American Indians themselves were often blamed for the troubles that ensued

Question 23

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The following was NOT a cause of increased American settlement of the West after the Civil War:
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  • They deployment of the Army in the region
  • Sharp increases in urban food prices

Question 24

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Belief that the United States had a special mission to expand over the entire North American continent was known as:
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  • American Exceptionalism
  • Manifest Destiny

Question 25

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With regard to the Oregon Territory, in 1846, the United States:
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  • Concluded a peace treaty with Britain which established the United States' northern border at 54°40° north latitude
  • Hammered out a compromise agreement with the British Empire

Question 26

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The Wilmot Proviso:
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  • Encouraged slavery's expansion westward
  • Called for American annexation of lands conquered from Mexico as free territory

Question 27

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A central element in the conquest and submission of the American Indians of the West was the:
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  • Rapid growth of cities and population on the California coast
  • Destruction of the buffalo herds

Question 28

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American interests and priorities with regard to Asia in the 1840s and 1850s primarily centered around
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  • Trade and commerce
  • Seeking opportunities for colonization

Question 29

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The American or "Know-Nothing" Party of the 1850s:
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  • Gave birth of the free-soil movement
  • Sought to limit the rights of immigrants

Question 30

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The following was the MOST important reason why immigrants tended to cluster in ethnic communities in urban areas during the antebellum period:
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  • The majority of immigrants came from urban areas of Europe
  • It allowed immigrants to retain their languages and customs to a greater degree
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