APUSH Chapter 13
Which of the following was not part of Chief Justice Robert Taney's Dred Scott decision?
A. The issue of slavery in the territories should be settled by Congress rather than the courts.
"Fifty-four forty or fight!" was
A. a push for American control of the entire Oregon territory.
From 1854 to 1856, the fundamental principle on which all Republicans agreed was
A. an absolute opposition to the expansion of slavery into any new territories.
The Ostend Manifesto was a(n)
A. declaration by three American diplomats that the United States had every right to take Cuba from Spain, which stirred such northern resentment against the South that President Pierce was forced to halt efforts to acquire Cuba.
The greatest issue facing the political parties in the late 1840s was the
A. extension of slavery.
The American Party, or Know-Nothings,
A. originated in anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic societies of the 1840s.
All of the following are examples of the rise of radicalism before the Civil War except
A. the Freeport Doctrine.
In the presidential election of 1856,
A. the Republicans emerged as a formidable replacement for the Whigs and came close to winning the election.
American blood shed "upon American soil" was Polk's call for
A. war with Mexico.
What happened in Christiana, Pennsylvania, in 1851?
B. About twenty African Americans fought a gun battle with slave catchers, killing two; a jury subsequently acquitted them.
Which of the following statements does not correctly characterize the gold rush and its impact on California?
B. Because gold mines were located in remote rural areas, the gold rush had little impact on Native Americans or Californios.
In the presidential campaign of 1852, the
B. Democrats nominated Franklin Pierce as a compromise candidate because he was a congenial man with southern sympathies.
Why did radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison bitterly criticize the free-soil movement?
B. He considered it a racist movement because its goal was not to oppose slavery but to preserve the West for white settlement only.
Which of the following statements most accurately describes President Buchanan's handling of the Kansas issue?
B. He tried but failed to have Kansas admitted as a slave state and fractured the Democratic Party by backing the dubious Lecompton government.
In 1854, why did Senator Stephen A. Douglas introduce a bill to extinguish Native American rights in the Great Plains and organize the northern segment of the Louisiana Purchase into a large territory called Nebraska?
B. He wanted to build a transcontinental railroad from Chicago to Northern California.
Support for John Brown's attempt to ignite a slave rebellion was publicly expressed by
B. Henry David Thoreau.
Until the 1840s, all the following were true of the land west of the one-hundredth meridian and east of the Rocky Mountains except
B. Indian culture was untouched by European influence.
Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the American invasion of Mexico in 1846?
B. The Americans captured Matamoros, Monterrey, Tampico, and most of northeastern Mexico.
The Slidell mission to Mexico in December 1845
was a failure because Mexico rejected the legality of America's annexation of Texas, and the Mexican authorities refused to even see Slidell.
Of the following, who would most likely believe that the Civil War was inevitable and nothing could be done to stop it?
B. William Seward
During Pierce's presidency, James Gadsden
B. bought a small amount of land from Mexico to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
B. increased opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act and prompted northern legislatures to challenge federal authority.
Northern states responded to the Fugitive Slave Act with
B. personal-liberty laws.
The Dred Scott decision
B. persuaded many Republicans that the Supreme Court and President Buchanan were part of the "slave power" conspiracy.
The Wilmot Proviso
B. prohibited slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.
In the settlement and organization of the Kansas Territory in 1854 and 1855, the Pierce administration
B. recognized the proslavery legislature in Lecompton.
As part of his California strategy, in 1845 President Polk
B. sent orders to the U.S. Navy in the Pacific to seize San Francisco Bay and other California ports in the event of war with Mexico.
The Compromise of 1850 included all of the following except
B. settling a border dispute involving land in Texas' favor.
American annexation of Texas and subsequent statehood
B. sparked the Mexican War.
The most violent occurrence on the floor of Congress was
B. the Brooks-Sumner incident.
In the midterm election of 1858,
B. the Republicans won control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Which of following statements does not correctly characterize Abraham Lincoln before his election to the presidency in 1860?
C. As a member of Congress, Lincoln strongly opposed slavery, condemning it as a moral evil and calling for its immediate abolition.
During the 1850s, proslavery American expansionists attempted to acquire
C. Cuba.
Which man who sought the presidency in 1844 is matched with the correct description?
C. James Polk—expansionist, dark-horse candidate of the Democratic Party who won the election
The creation of the Republican Party, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the negation of the Missouri Compromise are all a result of the
C. Kansas-Nebraska Act.
By the 1830s, the dominant Indian tribe on the central and northern Plains was the
C. Sioux.
By the early 1840s, the lack of ___________ was an obstacle impeding America's westward expansion
C. U.S. ownership of western lands
Popular sovereignty temporarily solved which issue?
C. Whether Congress had the authority to legislate slavery in the territories
Free-Soilers
C. believed that slavery threatened America's republican values and undermined Jefferson's vision of a society of independent yeoman farmers.
Traveling west on the Oregon Trail was so difficult
C. that more than 34,000 died along the way.
In 1845, Texans claimed that their boundary extended
C. to the Rio Grande on the south and west.
In an 1858 senate campaign speech, Lincoln
C. warned that the nation could not endure in its present state as "a house divided against itself," that is, half slave and half free.
Which of the following explains why the Second Party System disintegrated in the 1850s?
D. All of the above
Which of the following statements accurately characterizes Great Plains Indian participation in the buffalo trade in the early and mid-1800s?
D. All of the above
Who of the following people is correctly matched to their position on the extension of slavery during the debate over the admission of California to the Union in 1850?
D. All of the above
In the summer of 1856 in Kansas,
D. John Brown and his followers murdered and mutilated five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie in revenge for attacks on abolitionists, which initiated a guerrilla war.
Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes American settlement in California
D. Most Americans who settled in California married into Mexican families, became Catholics, and adopted Mexican customs.
What was the effect of Oregon fever?
D. Now that Northern Democrats wanted expansion, Southern Democrats could push for annexation of Texas without splitting the party.
Which of the following statements about the election of 1860 is correct?
D. Southern Democrats split from the party and nominated John Breckinridge, who carried the states in the Deep South.
Pro-annexation Democrats engineered the annexation of Texas in 1845 by
D. approving it through a joint resolution, which required only a majority vote in both houses of Congress.
In his so-called Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas
D. asserted that settlers could exclude slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation to protect it.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
D. denied alleged runaways a jury trial or the right to testify in their own defense.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act did all of the following except
D. give the Whig Party a political advantage over the Democratic Party.
The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in 1860 because
D. his egalitarian image would attract votes among farmers and workers.
James K. Polk supported all of the following except
D. internal improvements.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
D. purchased more than one-third of Mexico's territory for $15 million.
In the 1700s and the first half of the 1800s, all the following European imports had a significant influence on the western Plains Indians except
D. religion.
All of the following statements regarding the 1848 presidential election are correct except
D. the Whigs won by a landslide, indicating that the vast majority of Americans were strongly against the extension of slavery.
Manifest Destiny was the belief that
D. the citizens of the United States had a God-given right to conquer the land to the Pacific Ocean.
From 1818 until the early 1840s, the Oregon Territory was
D. under the joint occupancy of Great Britain and the United States