TAMU RESCH HIST 105 FINAL Test Questions With Expert Solutions |Updated & Verified
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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 eith...
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 co ncede 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, incl uding blacks The South's strategy of attrition in 1864 produced staggering Union casualties and greatly strengthened the anti -war candidacy of Democrat George McClellan - ✔✔True attrition: action of reducing the effectiveness of someone (the north) North wanted to end the war after heavy casualities By means of his Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas argues that the Dred Scott decision meant that anti slavery settlers were obligated to assist slaveowners in the prevention and pursuit of escaped slaves - ✔✔False Douglas says that the people should do what they want; not obligated Lincoln wanted the Congress to pass the 13th amendment before the war ended in order to insure it would to be defeated by a post -war compromise between northern and southern Democr ats - ✔✔True Lincoln passed the amendment before the south surrendered For many northerners, the term "slave power" meant the domination of the nation by the South, the domination of the South by wealthy planters who therefore constituted the ruling class of the US - ✔✔True Slave power = great amount of power that slaveholders had In 1860 the Democratic Party split when Stephen Douglas rejected southern demands for a federal slave code for the territories - ✔✔True Douglas wouldn't make the people follow a slave code; South no longer likes him The creation of "Contraband Camps" allowed the North to attack southern slavery without declaring abolition to be an objective of the Civil War - ✔✔True Contraband camps = refuge for escaped slaves In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe presented the social relations of southern slavery as a peaceful relationship between noble slaves like Uncle Tom and paternalist slaveowners such as Simon Legree - ✔✔False By vigorously enforcing the Fugitive S lave Law the northern states were able to convince southerners of their intention to hone the Compromise of 1850 - ✔✔False Northern states didn't enforce slave codes, which made southerners doubt their intention The Panic of 1857 allowed Republicans to ov ercome Democratic resistance to the Homestead Act and land grants for the Transcontinental Railroad - ✔✔False
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