Apush Chapter 13 Quiz Answers

The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for

the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War.

The United States claimed that the Southern border of Texas was

the Rio Grande River.

Kansas gained its reputation as "Bleeding Kansas" for violence because of the

warfare between settlers on opposing sides in the battle over the slavery issue.

Which of the following issues dominated Polk's 1844 presidential campaign?

westward expansion

The Compromise of 1850 did which of the following?

Enacted a stringent fugitive slave law.

Which area of land was purchased from Mexico in order to facilitate the construction of a transcontinental railroad between New Orleans and California?

Gadsden Purchase

Which of the following best describes the policy of the government of Mexico toward Texas?

It encouraged American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s.

Which of the following statements about the Dred Scott case is correct?

It stated that African American people were not citizens of the United States.

Who was the radical abolitionist that led an armed mob to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA?

John Brown

The term "manifest destiny" was coined by

John L. O'Sullivan.

The political party of the era that supported nativist policies was the

Know-Nothing party.

By opening territory north of the 36 degree, 30 minute north latitude line to slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the

Missouri Compromise.

Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?

National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories.

During Polk's presidency, American and British negotiators agreed to divide the Oregon Country at

the 49th parallel.

The Republican Party originated in the mid-1850s as a sectional party committed to which of the following?

Opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories.

Which of the following states the principle of "popular sovereignty"?

Settlers in a given territory have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery will be permitted there.

The Freeport Doctrine was

Stephen Douglas' idea of how to keep slavery out of the territories.

Which of the following is NOT true about the election of 1860?

The Republican party did well carrying eleven states, but did not win the presidency.

In the presidential campaign of 1860, which of the following positions was asserted by the Republican Party platform with respect to slavery?

The extension of slavery to United States territories should be prohibited by the federal government, but slavery should be protected in the states where it already existed.

Which provision of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850s?

The forceful Fugitive Slave Law.

Which treaty ended the war with Mexico and gave the United States sovereignty over Texas and the Mexican Cession?

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

American settlers first came to Mexico in the early 1830s

because they could receive a large plot of land for a very cheap price.

The Mexican War was mainly fought to

defend and increase American expansion.

American expansionists argued that it was the nation's manifest destiny to

extend from Atlantic to Pacific.

President Jackson resisted the admission of Texas to the Union in 1836 because he

feared the debate over the admission of Texas would ignite controversy about slavery.

What was discovered in California in 1848 leading to a major population boom in 1849?

gold

Despite earlier efforts to settle the issue, the slavery question became a major issue in the 1840s and 1850s because the

nation was expanding to the West.

Many Southerners supported the Compromise of 1850 because it

provided for the return of fugitive slaves.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) heightened the sectional crisis because it

repealed the Missouri Compromise Line.

Northerners approved all of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 except

the section of the document concerning the Fugitive Slave Act.