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Assignment:

Question 1. Which statement is false re: the causes of the Civil War? 

• The Missouri Compromise & the Compromise of 1850 illustrate the attempt to balance Northern & Southern interests.
• The question of the admittance of new states in the Western territories as free or slave caused tension between the North & South.
• The Republican Party, which is conservative, was formed to protect slavery.
• Southern states talked incessantly about state's rights, yet the Fugitive Slave Act required state officials to apprehend escaped slaves.

Question 2. Which statement is false re: the Civil War? 

• Northern industrial superiority contributed to the Union's victory.
• Sherman's March to the Sea was intended to demoralize the South.
• The capture of Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and severed the Confederacy.
• The continued prosecution of the war by Lincoln was assured by cancelling the Election of 1864.

Question 3. Which statement is false? 

• The Louisiana Purchase expanded the size of the United States.
• The admittance of Texas as a state caused tension between the United States & Mexico.
• The American victory in the Mexican War led to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the acquisition of the American Southwest.
• During the Bear Flag Revolt, American troops summarily executed captured Californios in what became known as the Goliad Massacre.

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

• Cotton led to the growth of slavery & contributed to Northern industrialization.
• Dueling was considered a matter of honor.
• There were Southern preachers that used the Bible to justify slavery.
• More than half of white Southern families owned slaves.

Question 5. With the Compromise of 1877, federal troops were withdrawn from the South, which led to disenfranchisement and segregation of African Americans. 

• True
• False

Question 6. Which statement would Carl Becker ("Everyman His Own Historian") agree with:

• Historians simply need to find the facts and then present them to the public.
• History is of little value to common people since they make little use of it.
• The interests of historians do not shift from one generation to the next.
• Historians are more interested in what happened than in our memories of what happened.
• History is an interpretive practice in which historians create a narrative by emphasizing certain facts and giving them meaning.

Question 7. James McPherson, in "Revisionist Historians," argued that revisionist works are outside the norm and that historians should avoid writing them.  

• True
• False

Question 8. Due to racism, no one in the North cared that the Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened by the Compromise of 1850. 

• True
• False

Question 9. During the era of Andrew Jackson, the suffrage was expanded to include non land-owning white men.  

• True
• False

Question 10. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Texas War of Independence.  

• True
• False

Question 11. Stephen Austin and his group of American settlers were granted permission by the Mexican government to settle in Texas with the proviso that they assimilate into Mexican society.  

• True
• False

Question 12. The Missouri Compromise is strange since it allowed slavery in Missouri but nowhere else above the 36 30 latitude line.  

• True
• False

Question 13. Slavery grew in tandem with cotton in the South, and arguably fueled Northern economic development as well due to the fact that most the textile mills were in the North. 

• True
• False

Question 14. Which statement is false regarding the American War with Mexico? 

• The admission of Texas into the United States was a source of tensions between Mexico and the USA.
• At the Goliad Massacre, American troops lined up Mexican prisoners and executed them.
• The war led to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in which California and much land in the Southwest was ceded to the United States.
• The acquisition of new territories heightened tension between the North and South.
• James K. Polk was president during the war.

Question 15. American soldiers massacred a large number of Mexican soldiers at the Goliad Massacre.  

• True
• False

Question 16. Andrew Jackson believed the Bank of the United States favored rich financiers and undermined the state banks, hence this is why he attacked it. 

• True
• False

Question 17. The Ku Klux Klan was formed during Reconstruction to fight for the maintenance of white supremacy. 

• True
• False

Question 18. It was the Democrats that most forcefully led the effort to help the recently freed slaves during Reconstruction.  

• True
• False

Question 19. John Brown, though he failed in his raid on Harper's Ferry, arguably helped start the Civil War because many Southerners thereafter believed that the North would take strong measures to abolish slavery.  

• True
• False

Question 20. The Freedman's Bureau established schools for the recently freed slaves. 

• True
• False