The Causes of the Civil War?

Which statement is false re: the causes of the Civil War? a. The Missouri Compromise & the Compromise of 1850 illustrate the attempt to balance Northern & Southern interests.

b. The question of the admittance of new states in the Western territories as free or slave caused tension between the North & South.

c. The Republican Party, which is conservative, was formed to protect slavery.

d. Southern states talked incessantly about state’s rights, yet the Fugitive Slave Act required state officials to apprehend escaped slaves.

2. Which statement is false? 

a. Northern industrial superiority contributed to the Union’s victory.

b. Sherman’s March to the Sea was intended to demoralize the South.

c. The capture of Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and severed the Confederacy.

d. The continued prosecution of the war by Lincoln was assured by cancelling the Election of 1864.

3.Which statement is false? 

a. The Louisiana Purchase expanded the size of the United States.

b. The admittance of Texas as a state caused tension between the United States & Mexico.

c. The American victory in the Mexican War led to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the acquisition of the American Southwest.

d. During the Bear Flag Revolt, American troops summarily executed captured Californios in what became known as the Goliad Massacre.

4. Which statement is false re: the Old South? 

a. Cotton led to the growth of slavery & contributed to Northern industrialization.

b. Dueling was considered a matter of honor.

c. There were Southern preachers that used the Bible to justify slavery.

d. More than half of white Southern families owned slaves.

5. During Reconstruction, there were advances in literacy rates for African Americans, as well as voter participation and election to public office.

a. True

b. False

7. Perhaps paradoxically, some of the currents of the Second Great Awakening sought order, while others (such as the Shakers and the Mormons) challenged social norms. 

a. True

b. False

8. The Methodist and Baptist churches of the South generally rationalized slavery with various appeals to the Bible. 

a. True

b. False

9. The John Ridge faction of Cherokee negotiated the New Echota Treaty, while the John Ross faction opposed it. 

a. True

b. False

10. Escaped slaves, such as Frederick Douglass, that wrote about the conditions of slavery helped fan Northern discontent with the Fugitive Slave Act. 

a. True

b. False

11. African American soldiers, unfortunately, served in segregated units. 

a. True

b. False

12. The Ku Klux Klan used a variety of terror tactics in the hope that such tactics would limit and perhaps even halt the participation of African Americans in politics.  

a. True

b. False

13. James McPherson, in “Revisionist Historians,” argued that revisionist works are outside the norm and that historians should avoid writing them.  

a. True

b. False

14. The Seneca Falls Convention was held exclusively to combat slavery.  

a. True

b. False

15. The Market Revolution integrated the various regions of the country, encouraged urbanization, and created a national market.  

a. True
b. False

16. President John K. Polk waged war with Mexico and purchased the Oregon Territory from Britain to achieve American manifest destiny.  

a. True

b. False

17. John C. Calhoun believed in the preservation of slavery and states rights.  

a. True

b. False

18. One could reasonably argue that the US Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott case, was usurping Congress’ right to regulate Congress and thus was behaving as an activist court.  

a. True

b. False

19. During the era of Andrew Jackson, the suffrage was expanded to include non land-owning white men.  

a. True

b. False

20. William Tecumseh Sherman displayed his mastery of logistics and his conviction that the enemy’s morale and capacity to wage war should be obliterated with his famed March to the Sea. 

a. True

b. False

21. The Battle of Vicksburg is notable because it led to the capture of the Confederate capital of Richmond.  

a. True

b. False

22. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Texas War of Independence.  

a. True

b. False

23. Here’s some irony: Southerners often spoke of states rights and bemoaned the federal government, yet they expected northern states that were opposed to slavery to help apprehend and return their slaves in cooperation with the federal government.

a. True

b. False

24. American soldiers massacred a large number of Mexican soldiers at the Goliad Massacre.  

a. True

b. False

25. The Emancipation Proclamation all the slaves everywhere.  

a. True

b. False