HISTORY 105 TAMU RESCH Exam 3 - Practice Solution Manual Fully Solved Latest Update 2025 Already
Passed
In the 1850s the Republican Party attempted to win working class votes by supporting a lower tariff on
imported manufacturing goods. - Answers false: wanted to increase tariff
Among the Confederacy's advantages during the Civil War was that its military-aged male population
was greater than the Unions. - Answers False: the union's was far larger
Unwilling either to criticize "wage slavery" in the North or to condemn slavery in the South, the
Democratic Party increasingly appealed to racism in order to compete with the Republican Party. -
Answers True
Severe depression of the 1870s and 1890s threw millions of Americans out of work and changed the
middle-class view that the poor were responsible for their own misery. - Answers false: middle class
didn't change its views
Although neoliberalism has greatly increased economic inequality since 1980, it has delivered on its
promise of global economic stability - Answers false
The goal of the Confederacy during the Civil War was to not to win, but to force the North to realize that
victory was impossible, weaken its will to fight, and force it to concede southern independence. -
Answers true: They only needed the north to know they couldn't win.
The New Right was an alliance of capitalists (anxious to cut the wages of American workers, "down-size"
and "off-shore" American manufacturing, and eliminate liberal "New Deal" governments) and white
middle- and working-class voters (angry with New Left anti-imperialism, support for civil rights, and
equal rights for women). - Answers True
By promising cheap western land to white family farmers, "Free Soil" ideology appealed to popular-class
values of equality and racism. - Answers false: weakened the populist appeal, and wanted no slavery in
the West.
Thaddeus Stevens opposed the confiscation and redistribution of land of disloyal Southern planters as a
violation of the Constitution. - Answers False: he was a member of the Radical republicans, wanted
redistribution of land
The South's strategy of attrition in 1864 produced staggering Union casualties and greatly strengthened
the anti-war candidacy of Democrat George McClellan. - Answers False: the north had the strategy of
attrition which led to union victories
By means of his Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas argued that the Dred Scott decision meant that
antislavery settlers were obligated to assist slaveowners in the prevention and pursuit of escaped slaves.
- Answers False: said despite the Dred Scott decision slavery could be excluded from territories
, At Antietam the nation suffered more casualties than on any other day in its history. - Answers True:
bloodiest battle
By the 1880s the 14th Amendment meant "liberty of contract" for big corporations not equality of the
law for African-Americans. - Answers true: they still wanted African Americans to work cheaply for them
Lincoln wanted the Congress to pass the Thirteenth Amendment before the war ended in order to
insure it would not be defeated by a post-war compromise between northern and southern Democrats.
- Answers False: he was worried about how the border states would react.
For many northerners, the term "slave power" meant the domination of the nation by the South, the
domination of the South by wealthy planters who therefore constituted the ruling class of the United
States. - Answers true
In 1860 the Democratic Party split when Stephen Douglass rejected southern demands for a federal
slave code for the territories. - Answers True
The New Left coalition of blacks, feminists, and anti-war protestors was premised on the class conflicts
and economic crises of capitalism. - Answers true: anti-capitalist
During the Progressive era mass consumption began to supplant definitions of freedom centered on
economic independence and political sovereignty. - Answers true: pg.141
The creation of "Contraband Camps" allowed the North to attack southern slavery without declaring
abolition to be an objective of the Civil War - Answers true: Contraband camps were places escaped
slaves could go.
In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe presented the social relations of southern slavery as a
peaceful relationship between noble slaves like Uncle Tom and paternalist slaveowners such as Simon
Legree - Answers false: she showed how awful slavery was.
New Deal economic policies were unsuccessful because American capitalists and the Congress of
Industrial Organizations were both bitterly opposed to it. - Answers True
By and large, white voters in the South returned prominent Confederates and members of the old elite
to power during Presidential Reconstruction. - Answers True
Social Darwinism so tainted the word "freedom" that many Progressives preferred to speak of
"democracy" instead - Answers true
Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he feared losing the support of
slaveholding border states within the Union - Answers True
By vigorously enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law the northern states were able to convince southerners of
their intention to honor the Compromise of 1850. - Answers False: They didn't enforce it whatsoever
Passed
In the 1850s the Republican Party attempted to win working class votes by supporting a lower tariff on
imported manufacturing goods. - Answers false: wanted to increase tariff
Among the Confederacy's advantages during the Civil War was that its military-aged male population
was greater than the Unions. - Answers False: the union's was far larger
Unwilling either to criticize "wage slavery" in the North or to condemn slavery in the South, the
Democratic Party increasingly appealed to racism in order to compete with the Republican Party. -
Answers True
Severe depression of the 1870s and 1890s threw millions of Americans out of work and changed the
middle-class view that the poor were responsible for their own misery. - Answers false: middle class
didn't change its views
Although neoliberalism has greatly increased economic inequality since 1980, it has delivered on its
promise of global economic stability - Answers false
The goal of the Confederacy during the Civil War was to not to win, but to force the North to realize that
victory was impossible, weaken its will to fight, and force it to concede southern independence. -
Answers true: They only needed the north to know they couldn't win.
The New Right was an alliance of capitalists (anxious to cut the wages of American workers, "down-size"
and "off-shore" American manufacturing, and eliminate liberal "New Deal" governments) and white
middle- and working-class voters (angry with New Left anti-imperialism, support for civil rights, and
equal rights for women). - Answers True
By promising cheap western land to white family farmers, "Free Soil" ideology appealed to popular-class
values of equality and racism. - Answers false: weakened the populist appeal, and wanted no slavery in
the West.
Thaddeus Stevens opposed the confiscation and redistribution of land of disloyal Southern planters as a
violation of the Constitution. - Answers False: he was a member of the Radical republicans, wanted
redistribution of land
The South's strategy of attrition in 1864 produced staggering Union casualties and greatly strengthened
the anti-war candidacy of Democrat George McClellan. - Answers False: the north had the strategy of
attrition which led to union victories
By means of his Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas argued that the Dred Scott decision meant that
antislavery settlers were obligated to assist slaveowners in the prevention and pursuit of escaped slaves.
- Answers False: said despite the Dred Scott decision slavery could be excluded from territories
, At Antietam the nation suffered more casualties than on any other day in its history. - Answers True:
bloodiest battle
By the 1880s the 14th Amendment meant "liberty of contract" for big corporations not equality of the
law for African-Americans. - Answers true: they still wanted African Americans to work cheaply for them
Lincoln wanted the Congress to pass the Thirteenth Amendment before the war ended in order to
insure it would not be defeated by a post-war compromise between northern and southern Democrats.
- Answers False: he was worried about how the border states would react.
For many northerners, the term "slave power" meant the domination of the nation by the South, the
domination of the South by wealthy planters who therefore constituted the ruling class of the United
States. - Answers true
In 1860 the Democratic Party split when Stephen Douglass rejected southern demands for a federal
slave code for the territories. - Answers True
The New Left coalition of blacks, feminists, and anti-war protestors was premised on the class conflicts
and economic crises of capitalism. - Answers true: anti-capitalist
During the Progressive era mass consumption began to supplant definitions of freedom centered on
economic independence and political sovereignty. - Answers true: pg.141
The creation of "Contraband Camps" allowed the North to attack southern slavery without declaring
abolition to be an objective of the Civil War - Answers true: Contraband camps were places escaped
slaves could go.
In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe presented the social relations of southern slavery as a
peaceful relationship between noble slaves like Uncle Tom and paternalist slaveowners such as Simon
Legree - Answers false: she showed how awful slavery was.
New Deal economic policies were unsuccessful because American capitalists and the Congress of
Industrial Organizations were both bitterly opposed to it. - Answers True
By and large, white voters in the South returned prominent Confederates and members of the old elite
to power during Presidential Reconstruction. - Answers True
Social Darwinism so tainted the word "freedom" that many Progressives preferred to speak of
"democracy" instead - Answers true
Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he feared losing the support of
slaveholding border states within the Union - Answers True
By vigorously enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law the northern states were able to convince southerners of
their intention to honor the Compromise of 1850. - Answers False: They didn't enforce it whatsoever
