1. In the later phases of the Civil War, General __________, running for president against Lincoln, declared that he would not make emancipation a condition of reconstruction.

A. Longstreet

B. Sherman

C. McClellan

D. Meade

2. Which of the following statements about John D. Rockefeller is most accurate?

A. He drilled the first oil well near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

B. He invented the concept of vertical integration.

C. He founded the Standard Oil Company when he was 24 years old.

D. He considered competition to be the central ideal of capitalism.

3. Which of the following statements about the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 is true?

A. The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.

B. Fugitive slaves were denied any and all constitutional rights.

C. The New Mexico Territory was absorbed into Texas.

D. The principle of popular sovereignty was abandoned.

4. Which of the following noted American authors wrote works that supported slavery?

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. Harriet Beecher Stowe

C. Henry David Thoreau

D. Edgar Allan Poe

6. Which of the following statements is true regarding the construction of the transcontinental railway?

A. The Sierra Nevadas were the most difficult obstacle for the Union Pacific Railroad.

B. Most workers on the Central Pacific leg of the railway were Chinese.

C. Construction began in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1863 and in Sacramento, California, in 1865.

D. Most workers for the Union Pacific Railroad were Chinese.

7. In the first major pioneering movement, settlers made their way to Oregon and California by way of the _______ Trail.

A. Kearny

B. Oregon

C. Cumberland

D. Overland

8. General Grant's army came closest to defeat in the West as a result of a surprise Confederate attack at the Battle of

A. Vicksburg.

B. Manassas.

C. Fort Henry.

D. Shiloh.

9. A series of legislative acts passed under the Grant administration in 1870 and 1871 authorized federal protection for black suffrage through the use of the Army against the Ku Klux Klan. Together, these were known as the _______ Acts.

A. Reconciliation

B. Force

C. Klan

D. Grant

10. The Wade-Davis Bill passed by Congress, then vetoed by Lincoln, stipulated that _______ percent of voters in a Confederate state must take an oath of future loyalty to the Union before a process of restoration could begin.

A. 20

B. 70

C. 10

D. 50

11. In the new cities of the 1800s, streetcars were to the suburbs and residential neighborhoods as glass and steel were to

A. railroad stations.

B. skyscrapers.

C. palatial mansions of the rich.

D. factories.

12. Which of the following labor activists founded the American Federation of Labor?

A. Uriah Stephens

B. Samuel Gompers

C. Terence Powderly

D. William Sylvis

13. If you were a reform-minded person who, above all, loathed the social problems associated with alcohol, you would have been especially sympathetic to the

A. evangelical efforts of Dwight L. Moody.

B. Mugwumps.

C. Comstock Law.


14. The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed amendment to a military appropriations bill that would

A. permit the slavery issue to be determined by popular sovereignty.

B. regulate competition between free and slave states.

C. establish slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.

D. ban slavery in territories acquired from Mexico

15. In 1866, the Sioux Chief Red Cloud ambushed and massacred Union soldiers in an incident that would be referred to as the _______ Massacre.

A. Wounded Knee

B. Little Big Horn

C. Fetterman

D. Chivrington

16. As ratified in 1870, the _______ Amendment prohibited any state from denying the vote to any male citizen on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

A. Fifteenth

B. Fourteenth

C. Thirteenth

D. Sixteenth

17. Founded by Oliver H. Kelley, the organization that came to be known as the _______ provided educational, social, and cultural activities to its rural members.

A. Prairie Alliance

B. Grange

C. Farm Guild

D. Okies


A. South Carolina

B. Kentucky

C. Mississippi

D. Virginia

19. Which of the following statements about President Andrew Johnson is true?

A. He was well educated, but he was a poor stump speaker.

B. He was impeached and forced from office.

C. He defended the planter aristocracy.

D. He was raised under conditions of extreme poverty

20. In the election of 1860, the _______ won the electoral votes of all the free states, except a fraction of the New Jersey votes.

A. Republicans

B. Whigs

C. Democrats

D. Constitutional Union Party