Chapter 13 Mr. D
What happened in Christian PA in 1851
About twenty African Americans fought a gun battle with slave catchers, killing two; a jury subsequently acquitted them.
From 1854 to 1856 the fundamental principle on which all Republicans agreed was
Absolute opposition to the expansion of slavery into any new territories
In __________, the Wisconsin Supreme Court denied the federal court's authority to review state court decisions.
Albeman vs booth
Which of the following explains why the second party system disintegrated in the 1850s
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
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?
All of the above
Which of the following statements does not correctly characterize Abraham Lincoln before his decision to the presidency in 1860
As a member of Congress Lincoln strongly opposed slavery condemning it as a moral evil and calling for its immediate abolition
In his so called Freeport Doctrine, Steven Douglas
Asserted that sellers could exclude Slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation to protect it
Support for John Brown's attempt to Ignite a slave rebellion was publicly expressed by
Henry David Thoreau
Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln for presidency in 1860 because
His egalitarian image would attract votes among farmers and workers
Until the 1840s, all the following were true of the land west of the one hundredth meridian and east of the Rocky Mountains except
Indian culture was untouched by European influence
Which man who sought presidency in 1844 is matched with the correct discription
James Polk
In the summer of 1856 in Kansas
John Brown and his followers murdered and we delayed five proslavery settlers at the Potawatomi and revenge for the attacks on abolitionists, which initiate a guerrilla war
In 1845 __________, editor of the Democratic Review, coined the term "Manifest Destiny".
John L OSullivan
The creation of the Republican Party the Pottawatomie massacre and the negation of the Missouri compromise all are a result of
Kansas Nebraska act
Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes American settlement in California before the mid-1840s
Most Americans who settled into California married into Mexican families, became Catholics, and adopted Mexican customs
What was the effect of Oregon fever
Now that Northern Democrats wanted expansion, Southern Democrats could push for annexation of Texas without splitting the party
Northern states responded to the Fugitive Slave Act with
Personal liberty laws
In the settlement and organization of the Kansas territory in 1854 in 1855 the pierce administration
Recognize the pro slavery legislator in the Lecompton
In the 1700s in the first half of the 1800s all of the following European imports had a significant influence on the western plains except
Religion
As part of his California strategy and 1845 president Polk
Sent Orders to the U.S. Navy in the pacific to seize San Francisco bay and other California ports in the event of a war with Mexico
The 1830s the dominant Indian tribe on the central and northern plains was the
Sioux
Which of the following statements about the election of 1860 is correct
Southern Democrats split from the party and not need John Breckenridge who carried the states in the Deep South
American Annexation of Texas and subsequent statehood
Sparked the Mexican war
Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the American invasion of Mexico in 1846?
The Americans captured Matamoros, Monterrey, Tampico, and most of northeastern Mexico.
The most violent occurrence on the floor Congress was
The Brooks-Sumner incident
All of the following are examples of the rise of the radicalism before the Civil War except
The Freeport doctrine
In the presidential election of 1856
The Republicans emerged as if available replacement for the whigs and came close to winning the election
Which of the following was not part of Chief Justice Robert Taney Dred Scott decision
The issue of slavery in the territories should be settled by Congress rather than the courts
"Fifty four fourty of fight" was
The push for the American control of the entire Oregon territory
In the midterm election of 1858
The republicans won control of the US House of Representatives
The American merchant who settled in Monterey and worked to prepare the way for California's annexation to the United States was __________.
Thomas Oliver Larkin
In 1845 Texas claimed that their boundary extended
To the Rio Grande on the south and west
By the early 1840s, the lack of _________ was an obstacle impeding America's westward expansion
US ownership of land
From 1818 into the early 1840s the Oregon territory was
Under The joy of occupancy of Great Britain and the United States
American blood shed on American soil was Polks call for
War with Mexico
In 1858's and the campaign speech, Lincoln
Warned That the nation could not endure in its present state as "a house divided against itself" that is half slave and half free
Popular sovereignty temporarily solved which issue?
Whether Congress had the authority to legislate slavery in the territories
Based on the settlement of Americans in the __________in Oregon Country, the United States claimed ownership of the area between California and the Columbia River.
Willamete Valley
Of the following, who would most likely believe that the Civil War was inevitable and nothing could be done to stop it?
William Seward
The American general __________ led a successful invasion of Mexico, beginning at Veracruz and culminating in the occupation of Mexico City.
Winfield Scott
James K. Polk was called "__________" by his supporters because he was a protégé of Andrew Jackson.
Young hickory
Pro-annexation Democrats engineered the annexation of Texas in 1845 by
approving it through a joint resolution, which required only a majority vote in both houses of Congress
Free soilers
believed that slavery threatened America's republican values and undermined Jefferson's vision of a society of independent yeoman farmers.
During Pierces presidency, James Gadsden
bought a small amount of land from Mexico to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad.
The Ostend Manifesto was 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 fugitive slave act of 1850
denied alleged runaways a jury trial or the right to testify in their own defense.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
increased opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act and prompted northern legislatures to challenge federal authority
James K Polk supported all of the following except
internal improvements
The American Party, or Know-Nothings,
originated in anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic societies of the 1840s.
Dred Scott decision
persuaded many Republicans that there supreme court and present the kids for part of the slave power conspiracy
The Wilmot Proviso
prohibited slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
purchased more than one-third of Mexico's territory for $15 million.
The Compromise of 1850 included all of the following except
settling a border dispute involving land in Texas' favor.
Traveling west on the Oregon Trail was so difficult
that more than 34000 died along the way
All of the following statements regarding the 1848 presidential election are correct except
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
the citizens of the United States had a God-given right to conquer the land to the Pacific Ocean.
The Slidell mission to Mexico in December 1845
was a failure because Mexico rejected the legality of Americas annexation of Texas and the Mexican authorities refused to even see Slidell
After American settlers in California, backed by John Fremont's heavily armed "exploring party," staged a successful revolt against Mexican rule in 1846 they proclaimed an independent __________.
Bear flag republic
Which of the following statements does not correctly characterize the gold rush and its impact on California?
Because gold mines were located in remote rural areas, the gold rush had little impact on Native Americans or Californios
The __________ were the first Indian tribe on the Great Plains to develop a specialized horse culture.
Comanches
During the 1850s, proslavery American expansionists attempted to acquire
Cuba
In the presidential campaign of 1852
Democrats nominated Franklin Pierce as a compromise candidate because he was a congenial man with southern sympathies.
__________ was so common among the forty-niners that one Sacramento doctor called it the "disease of California."
Diarrhea
The greatest issue facing the political parties in the late 1840s was the
Extension of slavery
Militant secessionists in the Deep South were known as __________.
Fire eaters
The foremost black abolitionist of the era was _________.
Frederick Douglass
The Kansas-Nebraska Act did all of the following except
Give the wig party a political advantage over the Democrats
Why did radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison bitterly criticize the free-soil movement?
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 describes Presidents Buchannans handling of the Kansas issue
He tried but failed to have Kansas admitted as a slave state and fractured the Democratic Party by backing the Dubois 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?
He wanted to build a transcontinental railroad from Chicago to CA