American History - Unit 4 Test

What were the three components of the Missouri Compromise?

-admit Missouri as a slave state -admit Maine as a free state -forbid slavery north of 36 o 30' in the Louisiana Purchase

1.Robert E. Lee 2.manifest destiny 3.Harriet Beecher Stowe 4.Fugitive Slave Law 5.Stephen Douglas 6.Frederick Douglass 7.Roger B. Taney

1.captured John Brown 2.expand from Atlantic to the Pacific 3.Uncle Tom's Cabin 4.runaway slaves 5.Kansas-Nebraska Act 6.a leading black abolitionist 7.Dred Scott case

1.Santa Anna 2.William Lloyd Garrison 3.Jim Bowie 4.John Brown 5.Harriet Tubman 6.John C. Fremont 7.Tariff of Abomination

1.led Mexican army against Alamo 2.published "The Liberator" 3.died at the Alamo 4.abolitionist who led the raid on Harper's Ferry 5.underground railroad 6.led United States troops into California 7.Tariff of 1828

During the time of manifest destiny, the addition of _____ was highly desirable because it contained two of the three natural ports on the Pacific coast.

California

Slaves were not imported into the United States after 1808.

False

Who published the anti-slavery newspaper "The North Star"?

Frederick Douglass

The Compromise of 1850 was proposed by:

Henry Clay

What decision, promoted by Stephen Douglas, made popular sovereignty a national policy for dealing with slavery?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Select the person who was not an abolitionist.

Roger B. Taney

In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, which man's position is described below? 1. Advocated popular sovereignty.2. Explained that slavery could only exist if the state legislature passed laws protecting slave property and could, therefore, curtail slavery without banning it outright.

Stephen Douglas

The _____ was negotiated between the United States and Mexico to establish the border between Texas and Mexico as the Rio Grande.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

During the antebellum period, colonization emerged as a solution for dealing with the population of freedmen.

True

Slaves were held in all thirteen of the original colonies.

True

The West was the first region to extend voting rights to all white men.

True

The treatment slaves received depended on the personality of the individual owner, not the slave codes.

True

Select the three categories of slave labor that could be found on plantations.

artisans and craftsmen domestic workers field workers

The doctrine that allowed people living in the territories to decide the issue of slavery through their governmental bodies was called:

popular sovereignty

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 maintained the political balance between what two groups?

slave states and free states

Bitter confrontations over what issue earned the new Kansas territory the name Bleeding Kansas?

slavery

What was the idea behind manifest destiny?

that it was right for Americans to extend their way of life from the Atlantic to the Pacific