APUSH EXAM PRACTICE 1877 pg.445

The reasoning in the case is most similar to which prior Supreme Court precedent?

(United states Supreme Court, Dred Scott v. Sandford, March 1857)

• The power to determine the meaning of Constitution in Marbury v. Madison (1803)

• The supremacy of federal legislation over state legislation established in McCullough v. Maryland (1819)

• The sanctity of contracts established in Dartmouth college v. Woodward (1819)

• The authority of federal government to regulate interstate commerce established in Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

The supreme court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford most directly contradicted the provisions of the...

• Missouri Compromise (1820)

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

The Supreme Court's decision led to..

(Dred Scott v. Sandford)

• Accelerating westward migration

• increasing conflict with American Indian nations

• deepening divisons between the north and south

• strengthening the second party system

Which of the following most directly changed the legal status of African Americans established by the supreme court's Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?

• Emancipation Proclamation (1862)

• Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

• Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

• Fifteenth Amendment

  (1870)

The Staunton spectator, "The uses of economy," Virginia, November 4, 1862

This passage best serves as evidence of which of the following?

• The mobilization of economy and society to wage the civil war

• the failure of the confederacy to gain full diplomatic support from European powers

• The portrayal of the civil war as a struggle to fulfill America's democratic ideas

• The failure of numerous attempts at compromise to reduce conflict

The Staunton spectator, "The uses of economy," Virginia, November 4, 1862

The issues brought up in the passage were primarily a result of which of the following?

• The southern economy's dependence of imports

• improvements in union leadership and strategy

• African americans fleeing southern plantations

• differing forms of government between the north and the south

The Staunton spectator, "The uses of economy," Virginia, November 4, 1862

This passage was most likely written in response to the...

• Considerable home front opposition faced by the confederacy to waging the war

• initiative and daring shown by the North early in the war

• wartime destruction of the south's infrastructure

• greater resources possessed by the north

Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862

Which of the following events most directly contradicts Lincoln's views expressed in this passage?

• The enlistment of African Americans in the Union Army

• The Copperhead Democrats' plan to negotiate a peace with the confederacy

• The highly visible campaign of African American and white abolitionists against slavery

• The continued dominance of southern planters in the region after the war

Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862

Based upon the excerpt, Lincoln would most likely support

• The reinstatement of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the Dred Scott decision

• the settlement of freedpeople on the former plantation lands

• the Thirteenth Amendment

The Mississippi Black Code, 1865

The black codes emerged most directly from the context of which of the following?

• The compromise between the Virginia and New Jersey Plans during the constitutional convention

• Thomas Jefferson's reaction to the Alien and Sedition Acts

• The rise of democratic beliefs that influenced moral and social reforms

• The spread of the ideology of Social Darwinism