APUSH Ch. 18

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 1850s William Walker, an American adventurer, seized control of

Nicaragua

A scheme to acquire Cuba from Spain in the 1850's was known as the

Ostend Manifesto

Harriet Tubman gained fame

by helping slaves to escape to Canada

In his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster

called for a new, more stringent fugitive-slave law

Southern delegates met at a convention in Nashville in the summer of 1850 to

condemn the compromises being worked out in Congress

In light of future evidence, it seems apparent that in the Compromise of 1850 the South mad ea tactical blunder by

demanding a strong fugitive slave law

An event which helped the cause of compromise in 1850, was when President Zachary Taylor

died suddenly and Millard Fillmore became president

The event that brought turmoil to the administration of Zachary Taylor was the

discovery of gold in California

The public liked popular sovereignty because it

fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination

In 1848, the Free Soil party platform advocated all of the following except

giving women the right to vote

The Free Soilers condemned slavery because

it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise to self-employment

Some Southerners felt Cuba would be an enticing prospect for annexation for all of the following reasons except

it was not controlled by any European power and would be easily acquired

The election of 1852 was significant because it

marked the end of the Whig party

The United States' scheme to gain control of Cuba was stopped when

northern free-soilers fiercely protested the effort

The key focus for the major parties in the 1848 presidential election was

personalities

Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas- Nebraska Territory be decided by

popular sovereignty

The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have

prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War.

In the 1848 presidential election, the Democratic and Whig parties

remained silent on the issue of slavery

Many northern states passed "personal liberty laws" in response to the Compromise of 1850's provision regarding

runaway slaves

During the 1850s slaves gained their freedom most frequently by

self purchase

The fatal split in the Whig party in 1852 occurred over

slavery

John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and slavery involved

the election of two presidents, one from the North and one from the South

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 Fugitive Slave Law included all of the following provisions except

the requirement that fugitive slaves be returned from Canada

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

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

One of Stephen Douglas's mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was

underestimating the depth of norther opposition to the spread of slavery

By 1850, the South

was relatively well off, politically and economically

The Young Guard from the North

were most interested in purging and purifying the Union

The Free Soilers argued that slavery

would cause more costly wage labor to wither away

During the debate of 1850, ____________________ argued that there was "higher law" than the Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery from the territories.

William H. Seward

Of those people going to California during the gold rush,

a distressing high proportion were lawless men

Daniel Webster's famed Seventh of March speech in 1850 resulted in

a shift toward compromise in the North

For his position in his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster was viciously condemned by

abolitionists

The United States' victory in the Mexican War resulted in

all of the above

In order to maintain the two great political parties as vital bonds of national unity, early-nineteenth-century politicians

avoided public discussion of slavery

In 1850, rebuffed as buyers, some Southern adventurers undertook to shake the tree of Manifest Destiny by attempting to seize by force

Cuba

In the debates of 1850, Senator William H. Seward, as a representative of the northern Young Guard, argued that

Christian legislators must obey God's moral law

On July 3, 1844 the first formal diplomatic agreement between the United States and China was the

Treaty of Wanghia