TAMU RESCH HIST 105 FINAL Test
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In 1856 Democratic presidential candidate James Buchanan used northern racism and the fear of
southern secession to campaign against "Black" Republican support for "racial equality" and "disunion"
- ✔✔True
Don't vote for a black republican - vote for me (Democrat)
The introduction of "greenbacks" during the Civil War facilitated both rising profits for northern
capitalists and rising real wages for northern workers - ✔✔False
greenbacks - paper money led to inflation
The "draft riots" in the North were the result of working-class outrage over the inequalities of the
Conscription Act of 1863 as well as racist resentment over the Emancipation Proclamation - ✔✔True
Workers attack blacks & rich (who could pay to avoid conscription)
In the Dred Scott decision the Supreme Court ruled that Congress lacked the power to keep slavery out of
any state or territory because slaves were property and thus protected by the Constitution - ✔✔True
Dred Scott: "slaves are property"
The Union victory at Shiloh opened the heart of the slave South to Union invasion - ✔✔True
led to the take over of Tennessee then victory at Vicksburg
Events in Kansas demonstrated to many northerners the willingness of the "Slave Power" to resort to
illegal and violent means to extend slavery into the western territories - ✔✔True
Most black soldiers were emancipated slaves who joined the Union army after the Northern seized
control of the rich plantation lands of the Mississippi Valley in 1863 - ✔✔True
, Hinton Helper's "The Impending Crisis" urged non-slaveholding southern whites to rally around
the planter elites or face the inevitable end of "herrenvolk democracy" - ✔✔False
"black slavery is crucial for white equality"
Let's "HELP" the slaves (free)
The concept of "negative liberty" refers to the expansion of individual liberties protected by the central
government from the negative power of the states to deny or restrict them - ✔✔False
Negative liberty - freedom of states from interference of national government
Because of their own experience of discrimination in England, Irish immigrants to the United States
rejected racism within the Democratic Party and "whiteness" among American workers - ✔✔False
Liked white superiority because then they were above the blacks
Sherman's "march to the sea" was intended to destroy the South's ability to continue fighting and to
crash the will of southerners to supper the war - ✔✔True
Sherman was "sher" to crush the South
Mass migration along the Oregon and California Trails was discouraged by the federal government
because American settlers would antagonize the governments of Mexico and England - ✔✔False
Oregon trail was way up North; Mexico and England don't care about that
After 1863 nearly 200,000 black soldiers served in the Union Army and the vast majority of them
were recruited in the slave states - ✔✔True
In his famous debates with Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln admitted blacks were inferior to
whites in many respects, but they were equal to whites in their right to eat the bread earned with
their own labor - ✔✔True
The economic crisis of 1857 significantly altered sectional debates in Congress when the
Democratic Party embraced the anti-capitalist demands of industrial workers in the North -
✔✔False
Questions With Expert Solutions |Updated &
Verified
In 1856 Democratic presidential candidate James Buchanan used northern racism and the fear of
southern secession to campaign against "Black" Republican support for "racial equality" and "disunion"
- ✔✔True
Don't vote for a black republican - vote for me (Democrat)
The introduction of "greenbacks" during the Civil War facilitated both rising profits for northern
capitalists and rising real wages for northern workers - ✔✔False
greenbacks - paper money led to inflation
The "draft riots" in the North were the result of working-class outrage over the inequalities of the
Conscription Act of 1863 as well as racist resentment over the Emancipation Proclamation - ✔✔True
Workers attack blacks & rich (who could pay to avoid conscription)
In the Dred Scott decision the Supreme Court ruled that Congress lacked the power to keep slavery out of
any state or territory because slaves were property and thus protected by the Constitution - ✔✔True
Dred Scott: "slaves are property"
The Union victory at Shiloh opened the heart of the slave South to Union invasion - ✔✔True
led to the take over of Tennessee then victory at Vicksburg
Events in Kansas demonstrated to many northerners the willingness of the "Slave Power" to resort to
illegal and violent means to extend slavery into the western territories - ✔✔True
Most black soldiers were emancipated slaves who joined the Union army after the Northern seized
control of the rich plantation lands of the Mississippi Valley in 1863 - ✔✔True
, Hinton Helper's "The Impending Crisis" urged non-slaveholding southern whites to rally around
the planter elites or face the inevitable end of "herrenvolk democracy" - ✔✔False
"black slavery is crucial for white equality"
Let's "HELP" the slaves (free)
The concept of "negative liberty" refers to the expansion of individual liberties protected by the central
government from the negative power of the states to deny or restrict them - ✔✔False
Negative liberty - freedom of states from interference of national government
Because of their own experience of discrimination in England, Irish immigrants to the United States
rejected racism within the Democratic Party and "whiteness" among American workers - ✔✔False
Liked white superiority because then they were above the blacks
Sherman's "march to the sea" was intended to destroy the South's ability to continue fighting and to
crash the will of southerners to supper the war - ✔✔True
Sherman was "sher" to crush the South
Mass migration along the Oregon and California Trails was discouraged by the federal government
because American settlers would antagonize the governments of Mexico and England - ✔✔False
Oregon trail was way up North; Mexico and England don't care about that
After 1863 nearly 200,000 black soldiers served in the Union Army and the vast majority of them
were recruited in the slave states - ✔✔True
In his famous debates with Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln admitted blacks were inferior to
whites in many respects, but they were equal to whites in their right to eat the bread earned with
their own labor - ✔✔True
The economic crisis of 1857 significantly altered sectional debates in Congress when the
Democratic Party embraced the anti-capitalist demands of industrial workers in the North -
✔✔False
