american history review civil war and cold war 2012
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American History ReviewCivil War and Cold War 2012
Why was the election of 1848 significant?
The Free-Soilers diverted enough votes from the Democrats to let Taylor win
Free-Soil party, in U.S. history, political party that came into existence in 1847–48 chiefly because of rising opposition to the extension of slavery
All of the following were components of the Compromise of 1850 except
(A) A new Fugitive Slave Law was passed
(B) Slavery was banned in Washington, D.C.
(C) Popular sovereignty would determine the future of slavery in the territories
(D) California was admitted as a free state
All of the following steeled Northern public opinion against the South except
(A) The Kansas-Nebraska Act (B) The Wilmot Proviso (C) Uncle Tom’s Cabin (D) The Fugitive Slave Law
The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act anger Americans in the North?
It effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise
Who were the “border ruffians”?
Proslavery Missourians who rushed to Kansas after Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Why did Stephen Douglas push the Kansas-Nebraska Act through Congress in 1854?
A) He wanted a northern transcontinental railroad to terminate in Chicago
(B) He wanted to resolve the slavery debate
(C) He wanted to increase his stature within the Democratic Party
(D) All of the above
What did Lincoln do in his first inaugural address?
Professed his friendship for the South and said he would ignore South Carolina’s illegal secession
What did John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry demonstrate?
That Northern and Southern opinions on slavery were irreconcilable
What did Harriet Tubman and other Underground Railroad “conductors” defy?
The Fugitive Slave Law
Why were the Lincoln-Douglas debates significant in Lincoln’s political career?
They boosted him to national prominence
Which of the following was one reason the border states were so important to the Union?
They would have doubled Confederate manufacturing capabilities had they seceded
Lincoln was different from Davis in that he
Had a knack for understanding and using public opinion to his advantage
Why was Britain not as dependent on Southern cotton as the Confederacy had believed?
Cotton could also be obtained from Egypt and India
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed slaves in secessionist states
The Union victory at Antietam was significant because
(A) It convinced Britain not to forge an alliance with the South
(B) It gave Lincoln the opportunity to fire George McClellan
(C) It gave Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
(D) All of the above
The Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg
Were the major turning point in the war
Which of the following actions by Lincoln violated the Constitution?
A) His order of a naval blockade of the South
(B) His increase of the size of the U.S. Army
(C) His authorization of illegal voting methods in the border states
(D) All of the above
Why did Lincoln suspend the writ of habeas corpus?
To enable Confederate sympathizers to be arrested without being formally charged
The Confederacy collapsed at the end of the war for all of the following reasons except
Massive slave uprisings
Lincoln’s primary objective during the war was
To restore the Union
Who won the presidential election of 1864?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the first state to secede during the civil war?
South Carolina
COLD WAR QUESTIONS Joseph McCarthy’s political influence
waned after The Army-McCarthy hearings
What did the Montgomery G.I. Bill do?
Gave money to World War II veterans to go to school
America’s postwar economic prosperity was the result of all of the following except
The creation of the World Bank
Truman fired General MacArthur for
Publicly criticizing Truman
What was the Marshall Plan intended to do?
Rebuild war-ravaged Europe
The imaginary line of secrecy and mistrust that separated the USSR and Eastern Europe from the West was known as
The iron curtain
The United States and the USSR distrusted each other after World War II for all of the following reasons except
The United States and Great Britain had wanted to assassinate Stalin during the war
In which U.S. presidential election did television first play a major role?
1960
Kennedy’s doctrine of “flexible response”
Allowed foreign policy officials to use a range of strategies to fight Communists abroad, depending on the crisis
Eisenhower cut many federally funded government programs in order to curb what he called
“Creeping socialism”
The fall of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 prompted
Eisenhower to funnel U.S. funds into fighting Communist-leaning North Vietnamese
Which Kennedy initiative hoped to thwart Communist insurgents in Latin America by reducing income inequality in the region?
The Alliance for Progress
All of the following were consequences of the Cuban missile crisis except
A) The USSR removed its nuclear warheads from Cuba
(B) The United States removed its nuclear warheads from Turkey
(C) Kennedy authorized the Bay of Pigs invasion
(D) Khrushchev was removed from power in the USSR
The United States and the USSR came closest to nuclear war during the
Cuban missile crisis
What did Kennedy’s New Frontier program seek to do?
Increase social welfare spending
The belief that the United States had to prevent the USSR from expanding and Communism from spreading was known as
Containment
Why did the USSR vehemently oppose the Marshall Plan?
It feared invasion from a newly industrialized Germany
What did Republicans in the House of Representatives create in order to hunt for Communist spies?
HUAC Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
The Warsaw Pact was signed because….
To create an Eastern bloc alliance to counter NATO
The leader of nationalist, Communist forces in Vietnam in the 1950s was
Ho Chi Minh
Who constituted the bulk of the Bay of Pigs invasion force?
Cuban exiles and expatriates
Cuban leader Fidel Castro allowed the USSR to place nuclear missiles in Cuba after
The Bay of Pigs invasion
The Cold War was fought between the United States and
USSR