APUSH Chapters 13, 14, + 15

American settlement in Texas in the 1820's and 1830's

Led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials

Which American naval officer negotiated a treaty that opened two Japanese ports to US ships in 1854?

Matthew Perry

The term "Californios" referred in the 1830's and 1840's to ________ in California

Mexican cattle ranchers

"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of

Oregon

One aspect of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for what?

Protection of large Mexican landowners in California

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

The California gold rush

Resulted in laws that discriminated against "foreign miners"

Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840's?

Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free of slave

What was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850

The New Mexico and Utah Territories would use popular sovereignty to decide about slavery

Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the US because

The presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it

Which of the following statements related to ethnicity was true in California in the late 1850's?

Thousands of Indian children were declared orphans and treated as slaves

In the first half of the 19th century, the US gained the most territory through

Wars with Mexico

The Free Soil Party

demonstrated that antislavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks

Who questioned President Polk's right to declare war by introducing a resolution to Congress requesting that the president specify the precise spot where the blood had first been shed?

Abe Lincoln

Until the 1870's, who in essence controlled the territory between the Nieces River and the Rio Grande?

Comanches

During the Mexican War

For the first time, US troops occupied a foreign capital

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Gave new powers

Who wrote "On Civil Disobedience" as a response to the US war with Mexico?

Henry David Thoreau

The opening of Japan to US trade led to what?

Japan became a modernized military power