US HIST Chapter 13 GML

Which was not part of Lincoln's appeal to northern voters in the 1860 election?

As an earlier candidate of the Know-Nothing Party, he appealed to immigrant voters

Which of the following was not a key goal of James K. Polk?

Establish a slave-free state in the West

The first state to secede the Union was also the state with the highest percentage of slaves in its population-

South Carolina

Abraham Lincoln reentered politics in 1854 as a result of

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of

The discovery of gold

In response to the nomination of Stephen Douglas's Democratic candidacy, seven of the southern delegates

Walked out of the convention

In the Compromise of 1850,

the slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia

During the early 1800s, the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande was claimed by both Texas and Mexico but was actually controlled by

Comanche Indians

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848

Ended the Mexican War

Which of the following pieces of the statue atop the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., was part of a controversy concerning slavery?

Her cap

When California became a state in 1850,

It entered the Union as a free state

Henry Clay lost the 1844 election, a major factor in this loss was because

James G. Birney, running on the Liberty Party ticket, received 16,000 votes in New York

In the 1844 presidential election,

James K. Polk, a slaveholder, was the Democratic Party's nominee

The initial fighting of the Civil War began when

Jefferson Davis ordered batteries to fire on Fort Sumter

In the presidential election of 1848,

Martin Van Buren ran for president as a candidate of the Free Soil Party

Which was not part of the Irish experience on their arrival in the United States in the late 1840s and 1850s?

Soon after their arrival, most Irish became strong proponents of the Republican Party

The first American conflict to be fought primarily on foreign soil and the first in which American troops occupied a foreign capital was

The Mexican War

The Fugitive Slave Act

allowed special federal commissioners to determine the fate of alleged fugitives without the benefit of a jury trial or testimony by the accused individual

The Republican Party, founded in 1854,

was a coalition of antislavery Democrats, northern Whigs, Know-Nothings, and Free Soilers

In 1853-1854, President Millard Fillmore dispatched American warships to Japan under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry in an effort to

force a trade treaty with an outright demand that the Japanese deal with the United States

When Texas declared itself independent of Mexico, its new constitution

protected slavery even though Mexico had earlier abolished slavery

In the 1850s, two great areas of industrial production had arisen in consequence of the market revolution. These were

the Atlantic Coast from Baltimore to Boston, and the cities around the Great Lakes

The Free Soil Party's platform called for

the government to bar slavery from the western territories and provide land free in the territories to people who wanted to homestead there

According to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act,

the question of whether slavery would be allowed in these territories would be decided by local (white) settlers

At the 1860 Democratic convention, Douglas's supporters felt they had a majority, yet

did not have the two-thirds required for a presidential nomination