AP Quiz Ch. 18
In the debates of 1850, Senator William H. Seward, as a representative of the northern Young Guard, argued that
Christian legislators must obey God
The man who opened Japan to the United States was
Matthew Perry
Stephen A. Douglas's plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of the
Missouri Compromise
For a short time in the 1850's, William Walker, an American adventurer, seized control of
Nicaragua
A scheme to acquire Cuba from Spain in the 1850s was known as the
Ostend Manifesto
Which of the following was not among the issues that concerned southerners in 1849-1850?
There was a growing chance that a constitutional amendment would abolish slavery.
Of those people going to California during the gold rush
a distressingly high proportion were lawless men
In order to maintain the two great political parties as vital bonds of national unity, party leaders
avoided public discussion of slavery
Harriet Tubman gained fame
by helping slaves to escape to Canada
Most American leaders believed that the only way to keep the new Pacific Coast territories from breaking away from the United States control was to
construct a transcontinental railroad
In light of future evidence, it seems apparent that in the Compromise of 1850 the South made a tactical blunder by
demanding a strong fugitive-slave law
An event that helped the cause of compromise in 1850, was when President Zachary Taylor
died suddenly and Millard Fillmore became president
The event that threatened to destroy the longstanding equality of free and slave states in the United States Senate was the
discovery of gold in California
The public liked popular sovereignty because it
fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination
The election of 1852 was significant because it
marked the end of the Whig party
Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska territory be decided by
popular sovereignty
The Wilmont Proviso, if adopted, would have
prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War
Many northern states passed personal liberty laws in response to the Compromise of 1850's provision regarding
runaway slaves
The fatal split in the Whig party in 1852 occurred over
slavery
The South grew increasingly worried about the future of slavery because
the admission of California might permanently tip the political balance against them
The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning
the new Fugitive Slave Law
According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by
the people in any given territory
A southern route for the transcontinental railroad seemed the best because
the railroad would be easier to build in this area
The Pierce administration's secret scheme to gain control of Cuba was stopped when
the secret Ostend Manifesto was leaked to the public
The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession
threatened to split national politics along North-South lines
In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was
to be decided by popular sovereignty
One of Stephen Douglas' mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was
underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery
The Young Guard from the North
were most interested in purging and purifying the Union
