Transcript American History Review 2012

American
History Review
Civil 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effectively repealed the Missouri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 KansasNebraska 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