US History EOC Study Guide Late 19th/20th Centuries

California was admitted to the Union as a free state;

New legislation (the Fugitive Slave Act) was passed to allow runaway slaves not to return to their masters;

The remainder of the Mexican cession was divided into the two territories of New Mexico and Utah and organized without mention of slavery;

The claim of Texas to a portion of New Mexico was satisfied by a payment of $10 million;

Passage of the bill irrevocably split the Whig Party, one of the two major political parties in the country at the time.

Northern Whigs reorganized themselves with other non-slavery interests to become the REPUBLICAN PARTY, the party of Abraham Lincoln.

Should have resolved issues that led to the Civil War.

Violations of the hated Fugitive Slave Law increased.

Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses S Grant

Winfield Scott

Horace B Mann

The Thirteenth Amendment

The Fourteenth Amendment

The Fifteenth Amendment

True

False

Most of the land went to speculators, cattlemen, miners, lumbermen, and railroads.

Of some 500 million acres dispersed by the General Land Office between 1862 and 1904, only 80 million acres went to homesteaders.

Comparatively few laborers and farmers could afford to build a farm or acquire the necessary tools, seed, and livestock.

The Act resolved an issue of growing poverty in the population moving westward.

railroads charging varying amounts for the transport of similar cargo to similar places.

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.

the Civil War.

Gave African Americans a chance to leave an oppressive life in the South

Changed from a mostly rural to a significant urban population

Exposed many of the injustices in employment and society forcing change

Continued to oppress African Americans from realizing social and economic gains