APUSH Chapter 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's moral law.
The primary objective of Manifest Destiny expansionists in the 1850s was...
Hawaii.
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.
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.
On July 3, 1844, the first formal diplomatic agreement between the United States and China was the...
Treaty of Wanghia.
During the debate of 1850, ____ argued that there was a 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 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.
Southern delegates met at a convention in Nashville in the summer of 1850 to...
condemn the compromises being worked out in Congress.
Most American leaders believed that the only way to keep the new Pacific Coast territories from breaking away from 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.
Northerners feared that the Fugitive Slave Act threatened to set a dangerous precedent for white Americans because it...
denied fleeing slaves a trial by jury.
An event that helped the cause of compromise in 1850, was when President Zachary Taylor...
died suddenly and Millard Fillmore became president.
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.
The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have...
prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War.
The South grew increasingly worried about the future of slavery because...
the admission of California might permanently tip the political balance against them.
The man who opened Japan to the United States was...
Matthew Perry.
For his position in his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster was viciously condemned...
abolitionists.
The United States' victory in the Mexican War resulted in all of the following except...
acquisition of the Oregon territory.
The Underground Railroad consisted of...
an informal network of homes where slaves could hide on their escape to freedom.
In his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster...
called for a new, more stringent fugitive-slave law.
The event that threatened to destroy the longstanding balance of free and slave states in the United States Senate was the...
discovery of gold in California and its bid for statehood.
In 1848, the Free Soil party platform advocated all of the following except...
giving women the right to vote.
Historians have attributed all of the following to Douglas's motives for championing the Nebraska act except...
he was deeply invested in seeing slavery allowed in the territories.
Many Northern states passed personal liberty laws in response to the Compromise of 1850 that...
interfered with federal enforcement of the fugitive slave laws.
The Free Soilers condemned slavery because...
it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise from wage-earning to self-employment.
The Free Soil party of 1848 harbored many northerners who stood squarely against slavery in the territories primarily on the grounds that...
it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise up from wage-earning dependence.
With the discovery of gold near Sutter's Mill, California, in 1848, all of the following took place except...
most of the first wave of miners struck it rich with lucrative diggings of gold.
Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by...
popular sovereignty.
John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and slavery involved all of the following except...
prevent the spread of slavery in the California territory.
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 probably gained their freedom most frequently by...
self-purchase or voluntary emancipation.
The fatal split in the Whig party in 1852 occurred over...
slavery.
All of the following were results of the Fugitive Slave Act except...
the Underground Railroad scaled back its efforts.
One of the more surprising elements of 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 issue of runaway slaves was important because...
the loss of property was significant, but the loss of honor was felt more.
The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning...
the new Fugitive Slave Law.
Undoubtedly the most durable offspring of the Kansas-Nebraska blunder was...
the new Republican political party.
According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by...
the people in any given territory.
The two major parties kept the focus on the 1848 presidential election campaign on...
the personalities of Senator Cass and General Taylor.
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 of 1850 included all of the following provisions except...
the requirement that fugitive slaves be returned from Canada.
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's mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was...
underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery.
Daniel Webster's famed Seventh of March speech in 1850 resulted in...
visibly strengthened Union sentiment and especially pleased northern banking and commercial centers.
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.
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 than in preserving it.
The Free Soilers argued that slavery...
would cause more costly wage labor to wither away.
By 1850, the South was losing perhaps ____ runaways a year out of its total of some 4
1,000