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Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of slavery?

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Most slaves gladly accepted the limits on their freedom in return for security.

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Which of the following statements accurately describes the Upper South and the Lower South?

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After about 1830, both were united in their defense of slavery.

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Who led the 1831 rebellion in Southampton County, VA that terrified the South for generations?

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Nat Turner

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By 1860 what percentage of white southern families owned slaves?

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25%

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What was the largest group of southern whites in the antebellum period?

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Non-slaveholding yeomen

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Which of the following is not one of the reason that non-slaveholding southerners supported the slave system?

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They knew that they were outnumbered and had no choice but to support it.

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Which of the following is an accurate description of the typical slave diet?

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It was generally unbalanced, but there was plenty of food.

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in 1860, about what percent of slave owners owned more than 20 slaves?

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Only about 12 percent

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Which of these reflects the opportunities that cities provided for free blacks in the Old South?

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All of these choices

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Which of the following was a common form of slave resistance?

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Work stoppage and theft

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In "The Impending Crisis of the South", Hinton Helper argued that

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non-slaveholders should abolish slavery in their own interest

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Most runaway slaves

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remained in the South

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What fact of life was the greatest source of sorrow for plantation wives?

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their husbands sexual relationships with slave women

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Which of the following was the most interracial institution in the Old South?

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Church

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What was the status of the black slave family?

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It had no legal status

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Great Britain and the United States almost went to a war between in the 1840's because of a dispute over

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Claims to Oregon territory

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How much did the United States increase its land size by during President James K. Polk's administration?

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50 percent

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What pushed the Irish to leave their homeland in the 1840s and 1850s and come to the United States?

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A potato famine which left many people starving and hopeless

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In the 1820s, Mexico attempted to attract American settlers to Texas by

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providing generous land grants to recruiting agents

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Which of the following was one of the reasons why some antislavery northerners believed there was a southern conspiracy to extend slavery into the Southwest?

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President Tyler, a states rights Democrat from Virginia, maneuvered to arrange the annexation of Texas.

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What was one reason that "dark horse" James K. Polk won the presidency in 1844?

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Polk convinced many northerners that the annexation of Texas would be in their best interest

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In the 1840s, which of the following groups was not likely to support territorial expansion?

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Members of the Whig party

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"Manifest Destiny" is the belief that the United States had

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A mission to spread American ideals across the continent

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President James K. Polk's objectives in Oregon included

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A division of the territory at the 49th parallel

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What did President James K. Polk want from Mexico in 1845 and 1846?

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Acquisition from Mexico of California and New Mexico

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What military leader in the Mexican-American War became a national hero and eventually president?

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Zachary Taylor

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Who led the Texas army that defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto

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Sam Houston

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Why did John C. Calhoun believe that the federal government had no power to prohibit slavery in the Mexican Cession?

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He believed that slaves were properly, and the Constitution protected the right to property

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According to the doctrine of "popular sovereignty" or "squatter sovereignty,"

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Residents of a territory should be allowed to decide whether or not to permit slavery

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Who led the American forces that helped seize California from Mexico?

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John Fremont

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In Dred Scott versus Sandford, the Supreme Court ruled that?

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All of these choices

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Why did Abraham Lincoln win the 1860 presidential election?

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He took advantage of the split in the Democratic Party and won a plurality of the vote

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What was the reaction of many northerners to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act?

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Although some northerners saw the act as the price of saving the Union, many more saw it as a vile monument of infamy and therefore took up the abolition cause.

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Which statement concerning the presidential election of 1852 is true?

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The Whig part lost much support in the South and began to break up

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What did the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson conclude about John Brown's raid?

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Brown's execution would make him a martyr for the abolitionist cause

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Which of the following was not true about the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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It rendered the terms of the Compromise of 1850 void

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Which of the following was not an opinion on slavery held by free soil supporters?

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Free-soilers believed that American slavery had natural geographic limits beyond which it would not spread.

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Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

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Fort Sumter

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The principle of popular sovereignty held that

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Each territory would decide for itself whether or to allow slavery or not

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Why did "Bleeding Kansas" occur?

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All of these choices

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The Lecompton Constitution

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Protected the property rights of slaveholders already living in Kansas and provided for a referendum on whether to admit more slaves

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In the course of his campaign against Stephen Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared all of the following except

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The best way to preserve the Union was too ensure that slavery was legal in all states, North and South

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As a result of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry,

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Southern fire eaters were incensed

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Which statement best describes the Republican party position in the election of 1860?

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There should be no further extension of slavery into the territories

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Why did the states of the Upper South join the Confederacy?

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Lincoln called for volunteers to suppress the rebellion in the Lower South

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What advantage did the South have over the North at the beginning of the Civil War?

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The South had better military leaders

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During the war, most slaves

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remained on the plantations or farms with their owners

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Of all the methods the northers and southern governments used to finance the war, which was the most effective in raising revenue?

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Printing paper money

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What advantages did the North have over the South at the beginning of the war?

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Massive industrial capacity and most of the nation's railroad tracks

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During the Civil War, women's rights activists

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hoped that their wartime service would be rewarded with greater equality, especially the right to vote

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The Civil War can be considered the first modern war for all of the following reasons except

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Airplanes significantly altered the experience of combat

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The South had an advantage over the North in terms of

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soldier morale

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Originally developed by General Winfield Scott and later adopted by General Ulysses S. Grant, the Anaconda plan advocated

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constant pressure on Southern forces by controlling the Mississippi River and blockading the coast

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The Battle of Antietam in September 1862

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encouraged Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

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Approximately how many Americans died in the Civil War?

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620,000

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Which of the following is not one of the reasons why the Confederacy expected assistance, or at least diplomatic recognition, from France or Great Britain?

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The British Prime Minister had secretly promised aid and recognition to Jefferson Davis in 1860

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At the First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas)

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amateur armies on both sides fought a bloody battle with confederate forces ultimately prevailing

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The Emancipation Proclamation

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was formulated by the Radical Republicans and issued by Lincoln despite his strong personal objections

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During the war, women in the North and South

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All of these choices

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Which organization did Congress create to provide relief, education, and employment for former slaves?

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Freedmen's Bureau

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