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Nativist groups such as the American Protective Association supported
a) the Comstock Law.
b) the teaching of only American culture in schools.
c) immigration from southern and eastern Europe.
d) the social gospel movement.

How did the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin affect American society in the 1850s?
a) It convinced many Northerners that slavery would ruin the nation.
b) It resulted in the passage of laws protecting slaves from owners who beat them.
c) It convinced many Northerners that enslaved people were property.
d) It caused some slaveholders to allow slaves to buy their freedom.

The territory the United States gained after the Mexican War
a) was opened to settlers with or without slaves.
b) contributed to worsening relations between the North and South.
c) helped to resolve tensions between the North and South.
d) did not affect the slavery issue.

The most visible new black organizations in the South were
a) churches.
b) colleges.
c) political parties.
d) military clubs.

The Massacre at Wounded Knee resulted in the death of
a) more than 200 unarmed Sioux.
b) great buffalo herds.
c) Chief Sitting Bull.
d) Custer and his regiment.

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By the mid-1870s, many Americans were tired of Reconstruction partly because
a) the southern economy had fully recovered.
b) no important legislation had been passed.
c) Reconstruction legislatures taxed heavily.
d) all Reconstruction goals had been achieved.

How did new technology help farmers on the Great Plains?
a) It eliminated insect pests.
b) It lowered their debt.
c) It made crops drought-resistant.
d) It saved them time and effort.

Most of the South’s postwar industrial growth came from
a) cotton mills.
b) shipbuilding.
c) the manufacture of finished products.
d) canal building.

Which was a characteristic of agriculture in the South after the Civil War?
a) a decline in cotton production
b) an abundance of cheap labor
c) an emphasis on cash crops
d) an even distribution of wealth

The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo stated that Mexico
a) had reached a stalemate.
b) had lost the Mexican War.
c) had won the Mexican War.
d) would try to recover Texas.

Which one of the following is a lingering myth about the West?
a) Settlers nearly destroyed Native American peoples.
b) Western settlement damaged the environment.
c) Settlers were nearly all white males.
d) It was settled by a variety of races.

Reconstruction came to end when
a) President Johnson was impeached.
b) federal troops were removed from the South.
c) the Freedmen’s Bureau was dismantled.
d) the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified.

Farm mechanization resulted in
a) the end of bonanza farms.
b) stable crop prices.
c) a decline in the number of eastern farms.
d) an increase in farm production.

Many southern whites criticized northern business owners for
a) not caring about their workers.
b) refusing to hire African Americans.
c) assuming personal responsibility for workers.
d) trying to control workers’ lives.

In families on the homestead, what did women do?
a) cooked, cleaned, and made and washed clothes
b) raised and schooled the children
c) raised food crops
d) all of the above

Who were the main supporters of the new Republican Party?
a) southern industrialists
b) antislavery Southerners
c) antislavery Northerners
d) slaveholders

During his 1858 senatorial election debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln argued that
a) slavery was a moral issue.
b) whites and African Americans should have social and political equality.
c) slavery should be prohibited in the South.
d) southern states should secede.

Carpetbaggers were northern Republicans who
a) moved to the postwar South.
b) hired freedmen to work on plantations.
c) had once supported secession.
d) voted with the Democrats.

Many white reformers believed that Native Americans should
a) live on reservations.
b) give land to settlers.
c) sign treaties with the federal government.
d) be “civilized” and adopt white culture.

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