MTTC US History 2024 New Update Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+
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MTTC US History 2024 New Update Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+
The Compromise of 1850 - Answer-- Forestalled the Civil War by instating the Fugitive Slave Act, which banned slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and instating popular sove...
MTTC US History 2024 New Update
Exam Questions and Answers
Graded A+
The Compromise of 1850 - Answer-- Forestalled the Civil War by instating the Fugitive
Slave Act, which banned slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting
up the Texas territory, and instating popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession
The Kansas-Nebraska Act - Answer-- Repealed the Missouri Compromise
- Set up Kansas and Nebraska as states, and each state would use popular sovereignty
to decide what to do about slavery
- Both pro-slavery and antislavery supporters rushed into Kansas to affect the outcome
of the first election
- Kansas eventually became a state....started 1854, became a state in 1861 (just before
start of Civil War)
Reconstruction Era - Answer-1865-1877
- Period after the Civil War during which Northern political leaders created plans for the
governance of the South and a procedure for former Southern states to rejoin the Union
- Southern resentment of this era lasted well into the 20th century
Radical Republicans - Answer-- Congressional group that wished to punish the South
for its secession from the Union
- Pushed for measures that gave economic and political rights to newly freed black in
the South and that made it difficult for former Confederate states to rejoin the Union
Formation of the Republican Party - Answer-- Wisconsin, former members of the Whig
Party met to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western
territories
- Kansas-Nebraska Act helped formation of party
Strategies Adopted by Union and Confederate Military Leaders - Answer-Union:
Offensive strategy, combined attacks on Confederate territory with economic pressure
(blocking the coastlines and interrupting cotton trade with Europe)
Confederacy: Cordon defense strategy of manning entire border of territory, then chose
offensive-defensive strategy
Major Battles of the Civil War- First Bull Run - Answer-- First battle of the Civil War
- Untrained volunteers joined northern troops to fight the Confederacy
, - Fled back to DC (Confederacy won)
- North realized this would be a long war
Major Battles of the Civil War- Antietam - Answer-- First major battle to take place on
northern soil
- Bloodiest single-day battle in American history (23,000 casualties)
- Union won after McClellan let Lee retreat back to Virginia
- After this win for the North, Lincoln finally had the chance to issue the Emancipation
Proclamation
Major Battles of the Civil War- Fredericksburg - Answer-- General Burnsides did a
frontal attack on Lee, but Union lost
Major Battles of the Civil War- Vicksburg - Answer-- Union force wanted to capture in
order to control the Mississippi River
- Grant surrounded place and bombed it for a month
- Confederate soldiers starved until they surrendered
- Union took control of the Mississippi River cutting the Confederacy in half
Major Battles of the Civil War- Gettysburg - Answer-- Union General George G. Meade
led an army to victory against General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army
- War's most famous battle because of its large size, high cost in lives, location in a
northern state, and for President Lincoln's
Emancipation Proclamation - Answer-- September 22, 1862
- Lincoln freed all slaves in the states that had seceded
- After the Northern victory at the Battle of Antietam
- Lincoln had no power to enforce the law, until the 13th amendment was passed
Objectives of Spanish Explorers in North America - Answer-- Conquered civilizations of
Mexico and America
- Goal was to take wealth back to Spain
- Became leaders of the civilizations, which died out due to exposure to new diseases
Objectives of Europeans colonizing North America - Answer-- Exploration
- Could not conquer the native tribes due to the large amounts of different tribes and
their migrations to new areas following the seasons
- Different from Spanish in that they did not want to only take wealth back to home
country, but find new areas to live
- Wanted to find faster way to China and the "East" than going around Africa
Key Expeditions During European Colonization- St. Augustine - Answer-- Explored by
the Spaniards looking for gold
- Wanted to set up military bases for the pirates
- Wiped out major Indian populations from disease
- Did not really colonize successfully
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