US History WGU Academy Final Exam Questions and Answers (Graded A)

In 1836, Texas did not immediately join the US in part because... - ANSWER-President Andrew Jackson thought it would add to sectional tensions. Which of the following towns served as a major departure point for migrants traveling West on the overland trails? - ANSWER-Independence, Missouri In the 1820's and 1830's, the government of Mexico... - ANSWER-moved from favoring to opposing American immigration into Texas. As a result of the Gold Rush, by 1850... - ANSWER-California's population had become even more diverse. In 1836, an attack by Mexican forces on the Alamo mission... - ANSWER-saw the death of Davy Crockett The key to victory for the United States in the Mexican War was... - ANSWER-Winfield Scott's seizure of Mexico City. During the Mexican War, - ANSWER-American Settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the US navy. Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States - ANSWER-Agreed to pay millions to Mexico. As President James K. Polk - ANSWER-None of these answers are correct. In 1853, The Gadsden Purchase - ANSWER-Advanced the cause of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad. In the election of 1860, - ANSWER-Abraham Lincoln was elected with less than half the vote of the popular vote. The admission of California into the US was a decisive national issue because - ANSWER-California's entry would upset the nation's numerical balance of free and slave states. In the election of 1852 - ANSWER-The free-soil party gained strength In the 1850's, the "Young America" movement, - ANSWER-Supported the expansion of American Democracy throughout the world. The Free-Soil Ideology Included: - ANSWER-Opposition to the expansion of Slavery James Buchanan - ANSWER-Pressured Congress to admit Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution. The 1857 Lecompton (Kansas) Constitution was - ANSWER-Twice rejected by a majority of Kansas Voters In 1861, the First Battle of Manassas or Bull Run was - ANSWER-a Victory for the Confederates The Most important Union Military Commander was - ANSWER-Abraham Lincoln At the Start of the Civil War, the - ANSWER-North had more advanced industrial and transportation systems The Confiscation Act of 1861 - ANSWER-Declared that slaves used by the Confederate States in the war effort were free. In the Course of the Civil War, - ANSWER-Popular Support for the Union was strong in England. In 1865, Southern Whites defined "Freedom" as - ANSWER-Controlling their future without Northern Interference In 1865 Southern Blacks defined " Freedom" as - ANSWER-All these answers are correct After the Civil War, most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from - ANSWER-Country Stores The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln - ANSWER-Involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration The Panic of 1873 - ANSWER-was the nation's worst economic depression to the time. During the Johnson Administration, the United States acquired - ANSWER-Alaska The Alabama Claims - ANSWER-Involved complaints by the United States against England During Reconstruction the Southern School System - ANSWER-Reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876 The Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWER-Gave Citizenship rights to all people born in the United States. The Wade-Davis Bill - ANSWER-sought to bring about the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates. In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he - ANSWER-All of these Answers are correct Which of the following statements about the end of Reconstruction is accurate? - ANSWER-Many White Southern Leaders sympathized with Republican economic policies in the South but could not publicly Support them. In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant - ANSWER-Entered the White House with no political Experience In the 1890's, the black Journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking - ANSWER-The Crime of Lynching Advocates for the "New South" - ANSWER-Promoted Southern industry and railroad development After Reconstruction, political power under southern "Redeemers" - ANSWER-Was very often restricted and conservative During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, southern agriculture - ANSWER-Saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system Jim Crow Laws - ANSWER-Imposed a system of s