Chapter 18 APUSH
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
In 1850, rebuffed as buyers, some Southern adventurers undertook to shake the tree of Manifest Destiny by attempting to seize by force
Cuba
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
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 "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
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