A test on early America leading up to and through the Civil War.
Mexicans
Shoshone
African slaves
Cherokee
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It affirmed that the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
It established the principle of judicial review.
It barred an outgoing president from making last-minute appointments.
It allowed a president to dismiss a judge appointed by a previous president.
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I and II
I and IV
II and III
II and IV
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Free-Soilers
Border ruffians
Abolitionists
Confederates
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To keep Confederate veterans from forming a new Southern army
To limit acts of violence and voter intimidation against African Americans
To protect the land farmed by African-American sharecroppers
To put down riots caused by bank failures during the Panic of 1873
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The raid on Harpers Ferry.
The Lincoln-Douglas debates.
The Fugitive Slave Act.
The Dred Scott decision.
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Violence broke out in Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed.
California was admitted as a free state.
Slavery was ended in Washington, D.C.
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Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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African Americans resented interference from Northern carpetbaggers.
Slavery remained in force in several Southern states.
Many white Southerners refused to accept equal rights for blacks.
African Americans did not hold office at the state or local level.
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To fight until the Confederacy had no army left
To break the Southern people’s will to fight
To wage war in every part of the South
To use the most lethal weapons available
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The Southern climate was warm, while the Northern climate was cooler.
The South was less densely populated than the North.
The South was agricultural, while the North was more industrialized.
The Southern economy depended on slavery, while the Northern economy did not.
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Nationalism
States' rights
Judicial review
Territorial expansion
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Being in free territory did not make a slave free.
Being in free territory automatically made a slave free.
Slave owners could not move into free territory with slaves.
Slave owners could not travel through free territory with slaves.
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Admit Missouri as a state
Resolve disputes over slavery in the territories
Change the balance of slave and free states
Incline the Southerners toward secession
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Food production
Civilian leadership
Industrial capacity
Military leadership
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“We are not prepared for this suffrage. But we can learn.”
“All persons held as slaves . . . henceforward shall be free.”
“The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”
“You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and determined people on earth—right at your doors.”
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Slave rebellions
Runaway slaves
Gradual emancipation
African Americans in the Union
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To free the slaves
To punish the South
To restore the Union
None of the above
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The Senate
The president
The residents of the territory
The House of Representatives
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The South would be divided into military districts.
Southern states had to pass the Fourteenth Amendment.
Southern states had to give African Americans the right to vote.
All African-American families would receive 40 acres and a mule.
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The Oregon Territory
The Western Hemisphere
North America
Texas
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It immediately freed Southern slaves.
It gave a moral purpose to the war.
It united the Republican Party.
It kept Great Britain out of the war.
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Overruling Supreme Court decisions with which he disagreed.
Ensuring that government officials would agree with his policies.
Taking power away from the wealthiest Americans.
Raising tariffs to fill the government treasury with funds.
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Marbury v. Madison.
The Trail of Tears.
The nullification crisis.
The Missouri Compromise.
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Compromising on the difficult issue of slave versus free states.
Withdrawing funds from the unpopular Bank of the United States.
Giving common people across the nation a voice in government.
Protecting American businesses with a tax on imported items.
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It favors the Ku Klux Klan.
It is neutral toward the Reconstruction South.
It opposes the Ku Klux Klan.
It was a recruitment poster for the Ku Klux Klan.
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