History 1301 chapter 13
Who questioned President Polk's right to declare war by introducing a resolution to Congress requesting the president to specify the precise spot where blood had first been shed?
Abraham Lincoln
in the presidential election of 1860, the two candidates who received the most votes in the southern states were:
Abraham Lincoln and John Breckinridge
During the 1850s, 80 percent of the world's gold came from two places that experienced gold rushes at about the same time, California and:
Australia
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859
John Brown
During the secession winter of 1860-1861, who offered the most widely supported compromise plan in Congress, which allowed the westward extension of the Missouri Compromise line?
John Crittenden
the republican presidential candidate in 1856 was:
John Fremont
Which event sparked Abraham Lincoln to reenter politics?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
in 1854, the Know-Nothings won all the Congressional races as well as the governorship in:
Massachusetts
Which American naval officer negotiated a treaty that opened two Japanese ports to U.S. ships 1854
Matthew Perry
The term "Californios" referred in the 1830's and the 1840's to ______ in california.
Mexican Cattle ranchers
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for all of the following except:
U.S. control of all of the Oregon Country
The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during the campaign for:
U.S. senator from Illinois in 1858
The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks
actually helped the new Republican Party.
all of the following took place under the constitution and state laws of independent Texas EXCEPT:
allowing native americans equal rights
in the 1860 election, how many different presidential elections won electoral votes
four
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:
gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement.
When Democrats demanded the "reannexation" of Texas in 1844, they:
implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase
During his debate with Abraham Lincoln in Freeport, Illinois, Stephen Douglas:
insisted that popular sovereignty was compatible with the Dred Scott decision
What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?
its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821:
its indian population was relatively large compared to its non-indian population
Why did Mississippi politician Jefferson Davis object in the 1850s to the original design of the Statue of Freedom that now adorns the U.S. Capitol dome?
its use of an ancient Roman liberty cap on "Freedom" raised a touchy matter about slaves longing for freedom
American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s:
led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican Officials
The republican free labor ideology:
led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible.
On matters related to citizenship, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that:
only white persons could be U.S. citizens
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to:
prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico.
The Lecompton Constitution was the:
proslavery constitution proposed for Kansas.
The democratic party split in 1860 over the question whether to:
protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty in them
The opponents of the Compromise of 1850:
received a boost from President Zachary Taylor.
The California Gold Rush
resulted in laws that discriminated against "foreign miners."
in the 1850s, Tennessee-born william Walker became famous for
seeking to establish himself as ruler of a slave holding Nicaragua
James Polk had four clearly defined goals when he entered the White House. Which was NOT one of his goals?
settle the slavery dispute
the 1860 republican platform stated all of the following EXCEPT that:
slavery should be abolished in the nation's capital
Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?
territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave
which of the following is an example of the political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
the Whig party collapsed, and many disgruntled northerners joined the new Republican Party
President Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the United States because
the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it.
The controversy over the arrest of Anthony Burns in 1854 shows:
the unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave Act in parts of the North
Which of the following statements related to the ethnicity was true in California in the 1850's?
thousands of indian children were declared orphans and treated as slaves
The american civil war began in April 1861, when:
Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter
The Republican party founded in the 1850's strongly endorsed the same policy about slavery in the territories that _____ had begun advocating in 1846
David Wilmot
Which two political figures agreed to keep the issue of annexing Texas out of the 1844 presidential campaign if possible?
Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren
Who wrote "On Civil Disobedience" as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?
Henry David Thoraeu
which of the following puts these events in the proper chronological order, from first to last? I. Virginia seceded from the union II. Abraham lincoln was elected president IV. south carolina seceded from the union
II,IV,III,I
In 1821, the opening of the Santa Fe Trail between Santa Fe and_______ led to a reorientation of Mexico's commerce from the rest of Mexico to the United States
Independence, Missouri
in 1860, which state became the first to pass an ordinance of secession and declare itself separated from the union
South Carolina
From 1848 to 1860, most of the railroad construction was in which region?
Midwest
"Fifty-Four forty or fight" referred to demands for American Control of
Oregon
According to John L. O' Sullivan's Democratic Review, what was the key to the history of nations and the rise and fall of empires
Race
Which of the following countries did NOT go through some kind of popular Upheaval in 1848?
Russia
The california gold rush turned______ into perhaps the world's most diverse city
San Francisco
With the exception of Alaska, what was the last piece of territory acquired by the United States toward the solidification of its present boundaries in North America?
The Gadsden Purchase
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850
The oregon Territory would be created
Which 1854 document called for the United States to seize Cuba?
The ostend manifesto
Stephen Douglas's motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:
boosts efforts to build a transcontinental railroad
the dred scott decision of the U.S> supreme court
declared Congress could not ban slavery from territories.
The Free Soil Party:
demonstrated that antislavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks.
By 1856, the Republican Party included individuals who had been, until rather recently, members of each of the following political groups EXCEPT:
federalist
During the Mexican War:
for the first time, the U.S. troops occupied a foreign capital.
