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- To members of the North's emerging middle-class culture, reform became a badge of respectability.
- The Union violated their citizens' civil liberties during the Civil War.
- Economically, the Civil War led to:a. the emergence of a nation-state committed to national economic developmentb. the building of a transcontinental railroad, completely through private fundingc. the creation of the Third Bank of the United States, despite opposition from old Jacksonian Democratsd. a decline in prosperity for North and South alikee. a tariff reduction to attract foreign goods to make up for the decline in domestic production
- During the 1850s, California and Australia had gold rushes at nearly the same time, and together they produced about 80 percent of the world's gold.
- Backed by many Radical Republicans for a time in 1864, presidential hopeful John Frémont ran on a campaign that called for the confiscation of the land of leading Confederates.
- Major General George Pickett led a charge, aptly known as Pickett's Charge, during the Second Battle at Bull Run.
- 'Fifty-four forty or fight' referred to demands for American control of:a. Californiab. Mexicoc. Texasd. Kansas and Nebraskae. Oregon
- The provision of the draft law allowing individuals to provide a substitute or buy their way out of the army caused widespread indignation.
- By 1856, the Republican Party formed from a coalition of the following political groups EXCEPT:a. northern Whigsb. antislavery Democratsc. Free Soilersd. Know-Nothingse. Federalists
- Women took to factory jobs and nursing during the war.
- By the time Abraham Lincoln actually took the oath of office, seven states had already seceded from the Union.
- On both sides, the outbreak of war stirred powerful feelings of patriotism.
- Moderate Republicans like Abraham Lincoln supported the Dred Scott decision.
- Under the constitution of independent Texas:a. people of African heritage were denied civil rightsb. all Mexicans were declared a separate racec. Native Americans gained equal rightsd. any race could purchase lande. slavery was banned
- The issue of Texas annexation was hotly linked to slavery and affected the nominations of presidential candidates in the 1840s.
- In spite of the controversy over the Statue of Freedom, Thomas Crawford refused to change his original design of the statue.
- When Democrats demanded the "reannexation" of Texas in 1844, they:a. implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchaseb. were seeking to take the slavery issue out of the presidential campaignc. neglected to say anything about the status of Oregond. were consciously appealing to northern Whigse. realized their stand would not be very popular in the South
- Nativism emerged as a major political movement in 1854, with the sudden appearance of the Liberty Party.
- Stephen Douglas said during the Lincoln-Douglas debates, 'A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.'
- Who wrote "On Civil Disobedience' as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?a. Ralph Waldo Emersonb. Abraham Lincolnc. David Wilmotd. David Walkere. Henry David Thoreau