attacks on Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts by Southern Democrats indicate that events in Congress in the 1850s provide evidence of the __________.Group of answer choicesdesperation of Southern Democrats to protect slavery made it difficult to find compromiseSouthern tendency toward brutalityproclivity toward violence that made the Civil War inevitableweakness of antislavery Northerners

What was the most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850?Group of answer choicesThe Fugitive Slave LawThe Women's clauseThe Ranchero addendumThe Land and Missions Law

Starting in 1860, Southern states began to secede in response to __________.Group of answer choicesthe election of Abraham Lincolnthe attack on Fort SumterJohn Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferrythe Kansas-Nebraska Act

What political party emerged for the first time after the 1854 congressional elections and had a firm commitment to oppose future concessions to Southern slave interests?Group of answer choicesthe Republican PartyNorthern Democratsthe American Partythe Constitutional Union PartyNext

Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party’s achievements in winning the Civil War included WHICH ONE of the following?Group of answer choicesExecuting or imprisoning for life all the leading Confederate politicians and generalsEstablishing a viable Republican Party in the South that lasted through the 1940sAllowing slavery to exist until the 1890s in those Border States, such as Kentucky, that remained in the UnionMaintaining the Union and the integrity of democratic elections

Discuss the major issues involved in Reconstruction. Describe “the ten percent plan," "The Wade-Davis Bill," "the Amnesty Plan," and "Military Reconstruction." What were the main points of the 13th , 14th, & 15thamendments, and what was the outcome of the 1866 elections for Congress? Describe Democrats, Black Codes, Thaddeus Stevens, scalawags, Republicans, the 1875 Civil Rights Act, carpetbaggers, and U.S. v. Cruikshank. Discuss the 1876 Election and the Compromise of 1877. Explain tenancy and sharecropping. How may one explain the impeachment of Andrew Johnson? Identify "the Eleven Particulars." How did the U.S. industrialize, and what were some of the issues around railroads in the 1800's? Discuss the transcontinental railroad, ,J.P. Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller, ‘horizontal integration,’ 'vertical integration,' 'trusts' and labor. Identify “The Homestead Strike” and "The Haymarket Square Incident. Contrast the Knights of Labor with the AFL. What were cities like in the late 1800's and early 1900's? Identify Jacob Riis, "dumbbell tenements," "machine politics," George Washington Plunkitt, settlement houses, the WCTU, and "the social gospel movement." What were the native countries of many immigrants during the late nineteenth century, and how did they fare in the United States? Identify "The Immigration Restriction League" and "The Chinese Exclusion Act." Discuss U.S. farmers in the nineteenth century. Identify "The Homestead Act," "The Timber Culture Act," Joseph Glidden, 'turkey red,' and 'granger laws.' Why were there cattle drives, and what halted them? Identify Joseph McCoy and “ the Goodnight-Loving Trail”. Discuss Native American issues, including "The Battle of Wounded Knee," "The Battle of Little Big Horn," and "the Sand Creek Massacre." Discuss "The Dawes Severalty Act." Discuss the political issues of the late 19th century. Who was “Czar Reed,” and how did he cope with “the disappearing quorum?” What did the Pendleton Act do, and who was Charles Guiteau? Why did farmers wish for money backed by silver? What is meant by “free coinage of silver?” How did the Sherman Silver Purchase Act address this question? What was the populists’ agenda, and how was it pursued? Identify the Ocala Demands, the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union, Ben Patterson, and the Southern Alliance. What took place in the 1896 election, and how did it harm populists? Identify the background, provisions, and importance of Plessy v. Ferguson. Identify the goals, accomplishments, and programs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and Booker T. Washington. Describe exodusters, and “The Great Migration.”