TAMU RESCH HIST 105 FINAL Test Questions With Expert Solutions |Updated & Verified

In the 1850s the Republican Party attempted to win working class votes by supporting a lower tariff on imported manufacturing goods - False The republican N wanted to protect northern industries 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 - True Democratic silence on wage slavery leaves only reason to counter "free labor" 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 - True Just wanted independence (states rights) Lincoln responded to southern arguments defending secession by denying that the states had ever possessed independent sovereignty and that in the absence of moral justification, the "right of revolution" is simply an exercise in physical power - True By promising cheap western land to white family famers, "Free Soil" ideology appealed to popular-class values of equality and racism - False Free Soil is free for everyone, including blacks