Chapter 13
(Q003) During the early 1800s, the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande was claimed by both Texas and Mexico but was physically controlled by
Comanche Indians.
Which position was taken by Stephen Douglas in the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Local self-government was essential in order for American to truly be a free county.
The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of
the discovery of gold.
(Q006) Between 1848 and 1860, American trade with China
tripled.
(Q017) In the presidential election of 1848,
Martin Van Buren ran for president on the Free Soil Party ticket.
There were calls by some expansionists for the United States to annex all of Mexico, yet the movement failed because
of the fear that the nation could not assimilate the large non-white Catholic population.
Which of the following territories became part of the United States as a result of its victory in the Mexican War?
California
Which was the dominant group in the disputed territory in southern Texas until the 1870s?
Comanches
(Q011) A major factor that explains why Henry Clay lost the 1844 election is that
James G. Birney, running on the Liberty Party ticket, received 16,000 votes in New York.
(Q010) In the 1844 presidential election,
James K. Polk, a slaveholder, was the Democratic Party's nominee.
(Q031) The initial fighting of the Civil War began when
Jefferson Davis ordered gun batteries to fire on a federal installation called Fort Sumter.
(Q033) Why did President Lincoln think that secession might collapse from within before a war broke out?
Many southern whites strongly opposed secession.
What was a source of conflict between the Mexican government and American settlers in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s?
Mexico had abolished slavery, but many American settlers were practicing slavery in Texas.
(Q036) In the wake of the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court, what western state legislature adopted a resolution declaring that "every free person, born within the limits of any state of this Union, is a citizen thereof"?
Ohio
Which statement is true about the concept of race in the United States in the nineteenth century?
Race was a vague notion; for example, the "Anglo-Saxon race" was defined largely as the opposite of being black, Hispanic, Indian, or Catholic.
The first state to secede the Union was also the state with the highest percentage of slaves in its population was
South Carolina.
What was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850?
The New Mexico and Utah Territories would use popular sovereignty to decide on slavery.
Which statement is true regarding the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The treaty ceded California and present-day New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah to the United States.
How did the California gold rush affect the California population?
Treasure seekers from around the world created a population with remarkable ethnic diversity.
The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during the campaign for
U.S. senator from Illinois in 1858.
Who was James McCune Smith?
a black physician, author, and antislavery activist
Which of the following was a feature of the rise of southern nationalism during the late 1850s?
a growing vision of a southern empire, extending to the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America
Which of the goals of the Polk administration resulted in war?
acquiring California.
The Fugitive Slave Act
allowed federal commissioners to determine the fate of fugitives without the benefit of a trial or testimony by the accused individual.
Which was a component of the Know-Nothing Party?
anti-Catholicism
Which of the following was an initial goal of James K. Polk when he assumed the presidency?
bring California into the Union
(Q012) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848
ended the Mexican War.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
established the principal of popular sovereignty to decide the status of slavery.
(Q016) In 1853-1854, President Millard Fillmore dispatched American warships to Japan under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry to
force a trade treaty with an outright demand that the Japanese deal with the United States.
Which of the following was part of Lincoln's appeal to northern voters in the 1860 election?
his position to carry the "doubtful states" needed for victory
(Q014) When California became a state in 1850,
it entered the Union as a free state.
By what means did the first Americans establish landholdings in Texas?
legal purchase of land, as long as they became Mexican citizens
The expansionist spirit of the early nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean was called
manifest destiny.
When Texas declared itself independent of Mexico, its new constitution
protected slavery even though Mexico had earlier abolished slavery.
In the 1850s, two great areas of industrial production had arisen in consequence of the market revolution:
the Atlantic Coast from Baltimore to Boston, and the cities around the Great Lakes.
Where did Confederates want to specifically pursue an aggressive pro-slavery foreign policy before the Civil War?
the Caribbean
The first American conflict to be fought primarily on foreign soil and the first in which American troops occupied a foreign capital was
the Mexican War.
(Q018) The Free Soil Party's platform called for
the government to bar slavery from the western territories and provide land free in the territories to people who wanted to homestead there.
(Q002) According to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act,
the question of whether slavery would be allowed in these territories would be decided by local (white) settlers.
(Q019) In the Compromise of 1850,
the slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.
In the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
the unity of the Democratic Party was shattered.
In response to the nomination of Stephen Douglas's Democratic candidacy, seven of the southern delegates
walked out of the convention, causing it to recess in confusion.
(Q023) The Republican Party, founded in 1854,
was a coalition of antislavery Democrats, northern Whigs, Know-Nothings, and Free Soilers.
What was the significance of the argument concerning the extension of slavery into territory acquired following the Mexican War?
It represented a struggle between the North and South for control of the federal government.
(Q035) What was the controversy surrounding the Lecompton Constitution in Kansas?
It was drafted by a pro-southern convention and never submitted to a popular vote.
The Free Soil Party
appealed to northern working-class Americans who saw access to homesteads on western lands as the only possibility for economic independence.
(Q025) Abraham Lincoln reentered politics in 1854 as a result of
the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
At the 1860 Democratic convention, Douglas's supporters felt they had a majority, yet
they did not have the two-thirds required for a presidential nomination.
"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of
Oregon.