AP BIO unit 4 Meiosis and Genetics

which was the peak of manifest destiny?

1842 to 1853

Chief Justice Taney's basic ruling in the Dred Scott case was based on which of the following principles?

Since slaves were property, they could not sue

one attempt to prevent slavery in the territories was the

Wilmot Proviso

the ideas expressed in the painting above most directly reflects which of the following continuities in the us history?

a sense of unique national mission and superior cultural identity

which of the following was not in favor of US territorial expansion in the first half of the nineteenth century?

abolitionists

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

admitting california as a free state

the gadsden purchase

allowed the united states to build a southern transcontinental railroad

which of the following is true of charles sumner and preston brooks?

they were symbolic of just how emotional the political issue of slavery had become by 1856

in the period from 1830 to 1860, the north and the south were different in which of the following ways?

urban growth was slower in the south than in the north

what prevented white southerners from working to diversify their economy in the nineteenth century?

wealthy planters believed that the plantation economy would continue to produce wealth indefinitely

with regard to sexual relations between white men and slave women in the antebellum south, white southern women

were supposed to pretend that they did not notice

which of these factors made enslaved african americans reluctant to attempt to escape to the north?

they hesitated to leave their families and communities behind

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

southerners who were threatening to secede

the term manifest destiny implies

that it was america's god given right to expand

which of the following constitutional arguments was designed to protect the institution of slavery?

the constitution recognizes property rights as sacred and those rights may in no way be abridged by the national government

northerners were most upset by the supreme court's dred scott decision because

the decision allowed slavery in the territories

fifty four forty of fight refers to

the dispute between Britain and united states over the oregon territory

all of the following encouraged american expansion between 1800 and 1848 except

the growth of american industrial power, in search of new markets

which of the following decisions by the mexican government angered americans who settled in texas?

the mexicans abolished slavery

for which of the following reasons may the south be considered "distinctive" in comparison to the rest of the United states in the period from 1830 to 1860?

the south was committed to the institution of slavery

which of the following did Winthrop offer as a final way to settle the oregon question?

the two countries should submit their claims to arbitration

president polk accepted a compromise with Britain on the oregon dispute because

the united states was facing problems with mexico

how did pro slavery theorists counteract the indictment of slavery as a moral wrong?

they contended that slavery was more humane than wage labor

which of the following examples embodied the synthesis of african and american culture that existed in the south in the 1850s

black evangelical christianity

which of the following arguments was offered by southerners as a defense of slavery?

blacks as a race are more physical and less intellectual than whites therefore slavery is the natural condition of blacks

which of the following were core institutions for african american society in the mid nineteenth century south?

church and family

the sentiments expressed in the painting led most directly to

environmental transformation of the western region

president jackson resisted the admission of texas into the union because he

feared that the debate over the admission of texas would ignite controversy about slavery

the american party of the mid 1850s (the know nothings) drew its primary support from those who feared

foreigners

which of the following was true of nat turner?

he was convicted and executed in the early 1830s for having planned and executed a violent slave revolt

in the nineteenth century south, free blacks lived primarily

in the coastal cities and the upper south

which of the following methods was a highly uncommon form of slave resistance in the slave south?

large scale uprisings

in their defense of slavery, southerners often demonstrated a belief in

maintaining social order

the paternalistic ideology of the plantation elite

masked the harsher beliefs of rich planters concerning the inferiority of blacks and the importance of making money

by going to war, the united states gained the territory labeled as the

mexican cession

in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

mexico lost approximately half its territory to the United states

which of the following acts of congress was declared unconstitutional in the red scott decision?

missouri compromise of 1820

the main determinant of a man's wealth and social position in the south was the

number of slaves he owned

the republican party originated in the 1850s as a party committed to

opposition to further extension of slavery into the territories

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

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 the people of the territories shall be allowed to do as they please upon the question of slavery"?

popular sovereignty

largely as a result of having become a slave society, the old south

rejected the wage labor system of the north and west

the supreme court decision in the dred scott case outraged northern public opinion because

removed restrictions against the spread of slavery into the western territories

the kansas nebraska act of 1854 increased sectional tensions because it

reopened the issue of slavery in a territory north of the 36'30 line

fear of the slave power was fear that the

slaveholding elite that controlled the south as determined to control the entire nation

which of the following arguments was most likely to have been used by southerners in the 1830s and 1840s to defend the institution of slavery?

society is ordered in a particular way by the dictates of nature, and nature has ordained that blacks are born to be slaves