ch 13 quiz + extra

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

abraham lincoln

Which of the following was the opening engagement in the American Civil War?

confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter

The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court did which of the following?

declared that Congress could not ban slavery from territories

The Wilmot Proviso, admission of California into the Union, and the Missouri Compromise focused on which of the following issues?

determining how extension of slavery should be handled

Who wrote On Civil Disobedience as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?

henry david thoreau

Which was true about American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s?

increased settlement led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials

Stephen Douglas's Freeport Doctrine did which of the following?

insisted that popular sovereignty was compatible with the Dred Scott decision

Which of the following is true about the Free Soil Party?

it demonstrated that antislavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks

Which of the following is true about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

it gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement

What was the result of the role that manifest destiny played in the California gold rush?

it led to a diverse group of people migrating to California

What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?

its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants

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

Which of the following is true of the Underground Railroad in the 1850s?

networks of trusted abolitionists agreed to participate in hiding and moving slaves to freedom

Which of the following was a key component of the 1860 Republican platform?

non-extension of slavery into new states and territories

What did the U.S. Supreme Court declare in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

only white persons could be U.S. citizens

Winning the Mexican War did what regarding trade for the United States?

opened valuable trading ports, tripling trade with China by 1860

"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of which of the following regions?

oregon

Stephen Douglas's motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to do which of the following?

pacify southerners who strongly supported the idea of popular sovereignty

In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to do which of the following?

prohibit slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for which of the following?

protection of large Mexican landowners in California

The Fourteenth Amendment emerged from which of the following contexts?

republican concerns that African Americans would be denied citizenship rights

For the South in the 1830s, making the Texas territory part of the United States could potentially be most beneficial in what way?

several slave states could be created out of Texas

Which of the following groups would most likely have supported secession from the United States after the 1860 presidential election?

southern democrats

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 states

Which of the following was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850?

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

Which of the following is an example of the political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

the Whig Party collapsed and gave birth to the new Republican Party

The industrial resources of the North during the Civil War most likely accounted for which of the following?

the disadvantage of the Confederacy in access to arms, munitions, and other supplies

Which of the following developments was most directly connected to the collapse of the Whig Party in United States politics during the 1850s?

the escalation of tensions between proslavery and antislavery factions

The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was intended to resolve debates about which of the following issues in the 1850s?

the expansion of slavery

Which of the following developments most directly related to the increased sectional strife immediately prior to the election of 1860?

the legal ruling that denied African Americans rights of citizenship

Why did Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren reject annexing Texas to the United States?

the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and politicians preferred to avoid that

In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States gained the most territory through which means

wars with mexico

The Democratic Party split in 1860 over which question?

whether or not it should protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty to decide the issue