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Which of the following factors can best be used to explain the Union victory in the Civil War?ASuperior military leadership, particularly early in the warBGreater population and industrial developmentCStronger resilience and ideological commitment to a causeDBetter understanding of contested territory and shorter supply lines to resources
The excerpt best reflects which of the following developments?APopular support for the idea of Manifest DestinyBThe emergence of nativist political partiesCThe collapse of the Second Party SystemDThe increase in sectional tensions before the Civil War
The excerpt best supports the conclusion that in the 1850s, the United States governmentAsought to prevent Japan from forming a naval alliance with the British empireBwas willing to intimidate Asian countries like Japan to secure economic opportunitiesCattempted to monopolize Japanese commerce and to exclude the participation of Europeans in tradeDwas interested in making the government of Japan more democratic
Which of the following could best be used as evidence to support the argument in the excerpt that "ethnic conflict among whites rivaled sectional conflict as a major political issue" of the period?AGrowing concern about the political and cultural influence of Catholic immigrantsBGrowing fear of political radicalism among southern and eastern European immigrantsCIncreasing cultural influence of European Romanticism in the United StatesDIncreasing support for the antislavery cause among the immigrant community
Which of the following most directly contributed to the request expressed in the excerpt?AThe removal of Native Americans east of the MississippiBThe passage of legislation ending the international slave tradeCThe desire for international trade and access to global marketsDThe expansion of westward settlement following the Civil War
The excerpt most likely reflects which of the following historical situations?AAbraham Lincoln won all of the electoral college votes in the presidential election.BFormerly enslaved people were given the right to vote in presidential elections.CSouthern states refused to participate in the presidential election.DStates in the South had begun seceding after the presidential election.
The conflict described in the excerpt is most similar to conflict in what other period?AThe period from after the Seven Years' War through the 1760sBThe period from after the War of 1812 through the 1820sCThe period from after the First World War through the 1920sDThe period from after the Second World War through the 1950s
Evidence in the excerpt best corroborates which of the following?ASouthern politicians would not abandon slavery, and they believed Lincoln was a threat to that system.BSectional divisions were not as deep as many thought, and there was agreement about gradual abolition.CPolitical leadership in previous administrations had successfully limited sectional conflict.DLincoln viewed foreign influences as serious threats to the stability of the United States.
The provision above overturned theAAlien and Sedition ActsBChinese Exclusion ActCSupreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. SandfordDSupreme Court ruling in McCulloch v. MarylandESupreme Court ruling in Worcester v. Georgia
Historians could best use the excerpt as an example of which of the following?AExpansion of voting rights during the Jackson administrationBDebates over the separation of church and state in the United StatesCAdvocacy for policies promoting the idea of Manifest DestinyDPolitical responses to changing demographics in the United States
Which of the following best explains the reason for the reconciliation described by Blight?AMass immigration from abroad and internal migration of African Americans reduced racial tensions in the North and South.BThe federal government established a limited social welfare state that reduced regional differences between the North and South.CEfforts to change southern racial attitudes and culture ultimately failed because of the South's determined resistance and the North's waning resolve.DThe theory of Social Darwinism encouraged political and business leaders to reduce efforts to create racial equality in the South.
The proclamation most clearly provides evidence for which of the following?AThe spreading of violence associated with the Kansas-Nebraska ActBThe failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tensionsCThe abolitionist roots of the Republican PartyDThe absence of racism in antebellum New England
The image most strongly supports the argument that ReconstructionAled to the unfair punishment of White Southerners by the NorthBencouraged large-scale rebellions by former slavesCinvolved unconstitutional abuses of government powerDtemporarily altered race relations in the South
In adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress was primarily concerned withAprotecting the powers of the southern state governments established under Andrew JohnsonBprotecting legislation guaranteeing civil rights to former slavesCending slaveryDguaranteeing all citizens the right to voteEestablishing the Freedmen's Bureau
The sentiments expressed in the proclamation would have been most widely condemned by White residents ofAcoastal South CarolinaBnorthern CaliforniaCwestern New YorkDwestern Virginia
During Reconstruction, which of following was a change that took place in the South?AMany African Americans found manufacturing employment.BMany White Southerners supported African Americans' rights.CAfrican Americans favored the Democratic Party.DAfrican Americans were able to exercise political rights.
The situation depicted in the image best serves as evidence of theAexpansion of federal powerBdecline of an agrarian economyCincrease in sectional divisionsDinstitutionalization of racial segregation
The issuing of documents such as the proclamation generally had which of the following effects?AAccumulating support for the theory of slavery as a positive goodBEncouraging armed rebellions by enslaved people in the SouthCIncreasing the visibility of organized opposition to slaveryDImproving relations between native-born residents and recent Catholic immigrants
The excerpt best serves as evidence for which of the following developments?AAbraham Lincoln attempted to increase the size of the army to regain Southern states.BLincoln rejected allowing any additional states to join the United States.CLincoln sought to avoid violence over the issues that divided the country.DLincoln intended to enforce the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
African Americans during the Revolutionary War...A) fought for both the Americans and the British. B) fought only for the British. C) fought only for the Americans. D) supported neither side, as both enslaved them. E) seized the opportunity to gain their freedom by running away to Barbados.