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BYU HIST 043 Final Exam Set
Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
What is the difference between nationalism and sectionalism?
Ans: Nationalism is pride in one's country and sectionalism is loyalty to a
part of the country.
What does civil war mean?
Ans: a war between people from the same country
How did most colonists view slavery before the American Revolution?
Ans: Slavery was a necessary evil.
Which individuals were all abolitionists?
Ans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Maria
Stewart
Which invention helped the North and the South transport goods more
quickly and efficiently?
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Ans: steamboat
What policy was passed to help former slaves after the Civil War?
Ans: Freedmen's Bureau
How did Northerners react to the Dred Scott decision?
Ans: They were shocked because blacks could not be citizens.
Which abolitionist founded the Boston antislavery newspaper the Liberator?
Ans: William Lloyd Garrison
Why was the Civil War considered a turning point in American history?
Ans: Many lives were lost and blacks received some basic rights.
What is a cash crop?
Ans: any crop that is sold for money
Which of the following was one type of resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act?
Ans: Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape using the Underground
Railroad.
What impact did Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin have on
America?
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Ans: The book convinced a large group of Northerners that slavery was
wrong.
Why was Reconstruction viewed as not being very successful?
Ans: The South returned to their old traditions and social order.
Which of the following was not a result of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Ans: Andrew Johnson became president of the United States.
If Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860, what did the leaders of the
South want the Southern states to do?
Ans: leave the Union
Why was the South so dependent on cotton?
Ans: Farmers made a lot of money growing cotton.
What did the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act have in
common?
Ans: They were both a compromise on the issue of slavery in the
territories.
Who was the Republican candidate for the 1860 election?
BYU HIST 043 Final Exam Set
Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
What is the difference between nationalism and sectionalism?
Ans: Nationalism is pride in one's country and sectionalism is loyalty to a
part of the country.
What does civil war mean?
Ans: a war between people from the same country
How did most colonists view slavery before the American Revolution?
Ans: Slavery was a necessary evil.
Which individuals were all abolitionists?
Ans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Maria
Stewart
Which invention helped the North and the South transport goods more
quickly and efficiently?
, Page | 2
Ans: steamboat
What policy was passed to help former slaves after the Civil War?
Ans: Freedmen's Bureau
How did Northerners react to the Dred Scott decision?
Ans: They were shocked because blacks could not be citizens.
Which abolitionist founded the Boston antislavery newspaper the Liberator?
Ans: William Lloyd Garrison
Why was the Civil War considered a turning point in American history?
Ans: Many lives were lost and blacks received some basic rights.
What is a cash crop?
Ans: any crop that is sold for money
Which of the following was one type of resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act?
Ans: Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape using the Underground
Railroad.
What impact did Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin have on
America?
, Page | 3
Ans: The book convinced a large group of Northerners that slavery was
wrong.
Why was Reconstruction viewed as not being very successful?
Ans: The South returned to their old traditions and social order.
Which of the following was not a result of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Ans: Andrew Johnson became president of the United States.
If Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860, what did the leaders of the
South want the Southern states to do?
Ans: leave the Union
Why was the South so dependent on cotton?
Ans: Farmers made a lot of money growing cotton.
What did the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act have in
common?
Ans: They were both a compromise on the issue of slavery in the
territories.
Who was the Republican candidate for the 1860 election?
