amsco chapter 12 and 13

One attempt to prevent slavery in the territories was the

Wilmot Proviso

President Polk accepted a compromise with Britain on the Oregon dispute because

The United States was facing problems with Mexico

President Polk was motivated to reject the treaty with Mexico because of which of the following?

Many Southerners wanted the United States to get larger gains in territory

By going to war, the United States gained the territory labeled as the

Mexican Cession

which of the following acts of congress was declared unconstitutional in the Dred Scott decision?

Missouri Compromise of 1820

which period was the peak of manifest destiny?

1842-1853

which of the following parts of the compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the NORTH?

Admitting California as a free state

which of the following served as a major cause of the war with Mexico?

Annexation of Texas

which of the following parts of the compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the SOUTH?

Passing a new Fugitive Slave Law

Winthrop suggests that Polk's slogan of "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" was based mainly on which of the following attitudes?

Polk hoped to get political benefit

to which politicians is clay directing the last line of the excerpt?

Southerners who were threatening to secede

the major opposition to the mexican war was based on the belief that

it would expand slavery

which of the following political groups had its efforts to find a compromise over slavery effectively ended by Taney's decision in the Dred Scott case?

northern democrats

An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?

popular sovereignty

which of the following ideas is Douglas appealing to when he says "whether people of the territories shall be allowed to do as they please upon the question of slavery"?

popular sovereignty

Northerners were most upset by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision because

the decision allowed slavery in the territories