Midterm Exam Part 2 May 18th, 2015
A: Cotton Gin
2. D: Slavery
3. B: Maintain a balance of free and slave states
4. D: Maine
5. B: Democratic
6. B Jackson was a self- made man who rose from poverty
7. D: spoils system
8. B: John C. Calhoun
9. A: Calhoun supported state's’ right and nullification, and Jackson favored a strong central government and unity
10. C: nullification of tariffs (taxes)
11. C: A state could pass an ordinance to nullify the law
12. A: The Force Act
13. D: Whig
14. D: Andrew Jackson
15. B: remove Native Americans from east of the Miss River to west of the Miss River
16. B: Trail of Teats
17. D: Cherokee
18. C: Spain
19. A: Cotton
20: B: The Mexican government feared that so many Americans may take over part of Mexico
21. A: to protest the harsh Mexican Laws
22. A: Gadsden Purchase
23. B: Louisiana Purchase
24. B: The Mexican- American War
25. B: California
26. A: to require the return of runaway slaves to their owners
27. A: the Fugitive Slave Law
28. D: Popular Sovereignty
29. B: If passed, it advanced the plantation system in Kansas
30. A: Abraham Lincoln had just been elected US President
31. D: South Carolina
32. B: Jefferson Davis
33. D: Fort Sumter
34. C: 11
35. A: blockade the Southern States to prevent them from getting supplies
36. D: 13 Million
37. D: 83 Percent
38. C: 31,000
39. D: in the Confederate States
40. A: It placed its cotton in warehouses to sell later to England or France to encourage their help
41. C: The bought cotton that was grown in other parts of the world
42. B: It would demoralize people and cause them to lose interest in the war
43. B: because he wanted to attack the capital of the state where the war began
44. B: Life in the South during the Civil War was harsh
45. D: the cloth that was available was used to make clothes for the troops
46. D: it was difficult to get parts or new equipment to keep the factories up
47. B: to feed, clothe, and educate former slaves
48. B: the took advantage of their inability to read and write
49. C: The planters could not afford to pay high taxes set up by carpetbaggers