Panola History 1301 Final

President John Tyler asked Congress to annex Texas through a joint resolution, which only needed a simple majority in each house, as opposed to the two-thirds majority needed in the Senate to pass such a treaty.

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Reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska Act directly contributed to the formation of a brand-new political party, the Republican party.

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Saint-Dominque, in present day Haiti, was the site of an unprecedented slave revolt, where slaves rose up and destroyed cane fields, and killed white planters and their families.

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Sarah and Angelina Grimké were daughters of a South Carolina slaveholder.

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Slave spirituals can be seen as a form of protest and solidarity.

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The "Great Compromiser" was Henry Clay.

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The Distribution Act of 1836 gave surplus funds in the federal treasury as loans to the states.

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The Dred Scott case was significant because it was the first time the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional.

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The Emancipation Proclamation was passed as a military necessity.

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The Fugitive Slave Act was the most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850.

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The Mexican dictator, General Antonio López de Santa Anna, personally led the action against the Texan "rebels" at the Alamo.

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The Monroe Doctrine developed after the monarchs of Europe seemed ready to help Spain regain her old empire in Latin America, although most nations there had declared their independence.

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The North and South competed for political influence in the West.

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The Oneida Community believed in complex marriage (in other words, that every man and every woman in the community were married to each other). However, the local authorities arrested the leaders for practicing free love.

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The Rush-Bagot Agreement eliminated naval competition with the British on the Great Lakes.

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The Unitarians emphasized the oneness and benevolence of God.

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The extension of voting rights in most states to white men was a factor in Andrew Jackson's election in 1828.

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The first party in American presidential politics to hold a national convention was the Anti-Masonic party.

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The greatest publicist for the Far West was John C. Frémont.

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The vast majority of white southerners were Baptist or Methodist.

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There were no Federalist candidates for the presidency in the election of 1824.

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Walt Whitman's work shocked many people because he wrote with an unusual frankness about sexuality.

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War with Britain over the Oregon dispute was avoided because Polk was willing to compromise and because the British did not want a war that would hurt trade relations with the United States.

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White slaveholders used slaves to grow cotton because they were a profitable labor force.

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William Henry Harrison served the shortest term of any president.

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William Lloyd Garrison changed the antislavery movement in 1831 by advocating the immediate abolition of slavery, which he regarded as a sin.

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Yeoman farmers did not often own slaves, but most of them supported the institution of slavery.

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In the Webster-Hayne debate, Robert Y. Hayne

viewed the Union as a compact of states.

The election of 1824 was decided when

Henry Clay supported John Quincy Adams.

In the election of 1864, Lincoln defeated

George B. McClellan.

The idea of Manifest Destiny suggested that

God supported the expansion of the United States to the Pacific.

In the 1816 vote on the Bank of the United States,

Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun supported it, but Daniel Webster opposed it.

"Cotton is King," declared

James H. Hammond.

Among Americans who fought in the Mexican War were all the following except

James K. Polk.

The "Era of Good Feelings" describes

James Monroe's administration.

Peggy Eaton was controversial because her background offended

John C. Calhoun's wife.

In 1828, the idea that a state could nullify an act of Congress was proposed by

John C. Calhoun.

The vice-president during Andrew Jackson's first term as president was

John C. Calhoun.

By 1850, the largest Protestant denomination in the nation consisted of

Methodists

A slave insurrection in which several whites were killed involved

Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831.

The main opposition to the war with Mexico came from

New England Whigs.

The last Confederate state to secede from the Union was

North Carolina

The Era of Good Feeling was brought to an end by the

Panic of 1819.

In the elections of 1844, James K. Polk became the first "dark horse" candidate nominated for president because

Van Buren opposed the annexation of Texas.

The Free-Soil party was a coalition made up of

Van Burenite Democrats, Conscience Whigs, and members of the Liberty party.

The three great Union victories of 1863 were at

Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Chattanooga.

The "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign was in support of

William Henry Harrison.

The destructive march across Georgia was led by

William Tecumseh Sherman.

In 1862, Congress adopted a protective tariff, a transcontinental railroad, and a Homestead Act as a result of

a decisive shift in congressional power to northern influences.

Four years after Congressman David Wilmot proposed it, the Wilmot Proviso became law as part of the Compromise of 1850.

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Free persons of color were not treated equally, as they could not vote, own weapons, or testify against whites in court.

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Harrison won the presidential election of 1840 primarily on the basis of major issues that he raised in the campaign.

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In 1848, before the gold rush, Americans were only one tenth of the non-Indian population of California.

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In 1850, Daniel Webster called on "a higher law than the Constitution" to demand the abolition of slavery.

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In 1859, John Brown led a pro-slavery raid at Harpers Ferry.

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In the "age of the common man," the United States achieved true social and economic equality.

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In the South, state laws prohibited free blacks from owning black slaves.

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In the panic of 1837, Van Buren supported emergency government aid for the unemployed.

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More of the North's whites were illiterate than whites in any other part of the country.

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Most southern whites owned at least one slave.

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Native resistance to the Indian Removal Act came from the northern tribes.

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Radical Republicans wanted to stop the war and let the South secede.

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Sam Houston died at the Alamo.

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Stephen A. Douglas delivered "The Crime against Kansas" speech in the Senate.

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The "burned-over district" was in western Massachusetts.

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The "corrupt bargain" settled the presidential election of 1828.

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The Confederacy's "anaconda" plan called for dividing the Union at the Ohio River.

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The Confederacy's final victory occurred at Appomattox.

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The Monroe Doctrine was immediately and widely accepted as international law.

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The Republican party was committed to upholding the extension of slavery into the territories of the United States.

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The Santa Fe Trail was used largely by people migrating to the Northwest.

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The Webster-Ashburton Treaty settled a boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico.

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The camp meeting was a new institution developed by the transcendentalists.

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The first third party in presidential politics was the Whig party, founded in 1832.

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The tariff of 1832 was dubbed the "tariff of abominations" because it hit northern industries hard and only pleased southerners.

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The two main rivals within the Jackson administration were Martin Van Buren and Daniel Webster.

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West Virginia was formed by western Virginians who supported the Union.

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While Sojourner Truth was a strong opponent of slavery, she did not support equality for women.

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Young slave women were treated with care because of their childbearing capabilities.

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The Plains Indians were divided into more than 200 nations, and were primarily

farmers

Fugitive slave Anthony Burns caused a sensation when

federal marshals captured him in Boston.

The Wilmot Proviso called for

prohibiting slavery in land gained from Mexico.

To promote social stability and equal opportunity, Horace Mann was a leader in promoting

public schools.

In proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Stephen A. Douglas was initially most concerned about

railroads

Andrew Jackson's action with regard to the Indians was to

refuse to enforce a Supreme Court decision in their favor.

Which of the following was a preferred job for a slave?

skilled worker

Emigration to the Southwest occurred because of

soil exhaustion.

Jefferson Davis hoped to win the war by

stalemating the Union army.

The United States was able to acquire Florida easily because of

the lack of Spanish control over the area.

All of the following factors made the South distinctive except

the presence of many European immigrants.

The most widespread reform movement of the antebellum era probably was

the temperance crusade.

All of the following statements about the Mormons are correct except

their leader, Brigham Young, was murdered at Nauvoo.

"Copperhead Democrats," were strongest in states like Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois because of southerners who migrated north.

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"The Republicans have out-federalized Federalism" refers to Republicans in the late 1810s supporting a national bank and a protective tariff.

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A collapse in cotton prices set off the panic of 1819.

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After the Mexican War, Congress created the Department of the Interior to manage the western lands and the Indians.

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Almost a million slaves were "sold South" before 1860.

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Although barely more than 300 slaves were returned to bondage during the first six years of the Fugitive Slave Act, it nonetheless widened and deepened the anti-slavery sentiment in the North.

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Americans were attracted to Texas because of its rich soil, lush prairie grass, timber, and abundant wildlife.

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Andrew Jackson defeated the Seminole Indians in Spanish Florida.

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Andrew Jackson was the first president born in poverty.

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As president, James K. Polk achieved all of his major objectives.

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Before the Tariff of 1816, New England shippers and southern farmers opposed a protective tariff.

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Blacks provided about 25 percent of the Union sailors.

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Civilians showed up to watch the first battle between the Confederate and Union soldiers as they assumed it would be bloodless.

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During the war, a general began to declare escaped slaves as free, designating them "contraband of war."

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Freed slaves from the United States formed the African nation of Liberia.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin became a huge success, due in part to its depiction of the horrors of the Fugitive Slave Act and the interstate slave trade.

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Henry Clay was the dynamic nationalist who championed the American System.

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Herman Melville's background as a young man working on a whaling ship, and even taking part in a mutiny, is clearly reflected in his novels, such as Moby Dick.

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Horace Mann argued that the public school system should be free to all children regardless of their race or ethnicity.

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In 1860, the dollar value of slaves exceeded the value of all of America's banks, railroads, and factories combined.

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In the Pottawatomie Massacre, John Brown led a raid against pro-slavery settlers in Kansas.

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In the case of Worcester v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokees were a "distinct political community" in which Georgia law had no force.

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In the election of 1828, Andrew Jackson was more popular than the incumbent president, John Quincy Adams, with ordinary folk and southern planters.

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In the election of 1860, Lincoln received only 39 percent of the popular vote.

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It was the Thirteenth Amendment that finally freed all slaves in the United States.

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Jackson and his supporters agreed with Jefferson's vision for America.

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John C. Calhoun initially championed internal improvements, believing that western development would help the South.

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John Quincy Adams's administration was crippled from the beginning because of the "corrupt bargain."

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John Tyler was the first vice-president to succeed to the presidency because of the death of a president.

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Marriage was a common, although not a legal, institution among plantation slaves.

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Mexico became an independent nation in 1821.

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Mining towns in California were extremely dangerous and violent.

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Most of the rivers in the United States traveled from north to south, so they needed to build a network of roads running east to west as part of the "internal improvements," which became know as the National Road.

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Most slaves accepted the Christian religion in place of their native beliefs.

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Popular sovereignty left the fate of slavery up to the people in each territory.

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President Jackson claimed that nullification sought disunion, which was treason.

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At the Jefferson Day dinner in 1830, Andrew Jackson offered as a toast,

"Our Union—It must be preserved!"

As a result of Henry Clay's compromise in 1833,

1) Congress reduced the tariff. 2) South Carolina rescinded its nullification of the tariff. 3) Congress authorized the president to use force to gain compliance with the law in South Carolina. Correct Response 4) all of these

Black abolitionists included

1) Frederick Douglass. 2) Sojourner Truth. 3) William Wells Brown. Correct Answer 4) all of these

In McCulloch v. Maryland, John Marshall

1) endorsed a broad construction of the Constitution 2) defended the supremacy of the Constitution. 3)denied that the states could tax a federal institution. Correct Response 4) all of these

The turning point of the war was the battle of

Antietam.

The increase in cotton production was mostly generated by

British and French demand for textiles.

The Whig coalition included all the following except

Catholic immigrants.

Lee's last significant victory came at

Chancellorsville.

By midcentury, a large number of Americas had decided southern slavery was an abomination. The efforts of the militant reformers who were determined to prevent the spread of the institution would ultimately lead to the

Civil War.

Southern farmers were often

Democrats.

Of the candidates in the 1860 presidential election, the only one who tried to run a national campaign was

Douglas

In the first six months of 1857, Buchanan dealt with

Dred Scott, the Lecompton Constitution, and an economic panic.

The inventor of the detective story was

Edgar Allan Poe.

Deism was heavily influenced by

Enlightenment rationalism.

During the Peninsula Campaign of 1862,

Robert E. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia.

The first organized meeting for women's rights occurred at

Seneca Falls, New York.

Leading advocates of popular sovereignty included

Stephen A. Douglas.

Abraham Lincoln stated his "paramount object" was to

abolish slavery

Causes of the panic of 1837 included

a financial depression in England.

In the early 1800s, the trinity of ideas promoting economic nationalism consisted of

a national bank, a protective tariff, and internal improvements.

The closing of the African slave trade in 1808 caused

a rise in the price of slaves.

The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court involved

a slave suing for his freedom because his master had taken him into free territory.

The organized movement for women's rights had its origins in

a split in the anti-slavery movement.

The Missouri Compromise of 1820

admitted Missouri as a slave state.

The popular press expanded in the antebellum period primarily because of

advances in printing technology.

American deaths in the Civil War

all of these

An important factor contributing to the Compromise of 1850 was

all of these

Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation partly to

all of these

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

all of these

The Mexican War was the occasion for the United States' first

all of these

The federal government financed the Union war effort by

all of these

In the antebellum South, freed African Americans were

almost a third caste in cities like Charleston and New Orleans.

Between 1830 and 1860, the number of slaves in the South

almost doubled

To keep the government financially sound after the panic of 1837, Van Buren proposed

an independent treasury.

Enemies of the Bank of the United States included Nicholas Biddle.

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Fighting during the Civil War did not extend to Kansas or the Indian Territory.

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Dorothea Lynde Dix was a leader in reforming the condition of

asylums for the mentally ill.

Jackson helped to bring an early end to the Bank of the United States by

beginning to deposit government funds in state banks rather than in the Bank of the United States.

As well as cotton, staple crops in the South included all the following except

coffee

By 1860, Protestant churches in the South

declared that slavery was a divinely ordained social system.

Southern slave states sought to protect their national political interests by

ensuring an equal number of slave states and free states.

In Dartmouth College v. Woodward, the Supreme Court

expanded the definition of contracts and put them beyond state control.

In 1846-1847, the Donner party

experienced the death of many of its members from starvation in the snows of the Sierras.

"If a man does not keep pace with his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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All of the slave states joined the Confederacy.

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All southern states banned the sale of children younger than ten unless with their mother.

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Ann Lee (Mother Ann Lee) was a leading advocate of women's suffrage.

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At the end of 1862, the North clearly had the military advantage.

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Between 1824 and 1849, participation in presidential elections declined.

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By 1835, Americans were a powerful minority in Texas.

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Clara Barton served as the superintendent of Women Nurses for the Confederacy.

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Copperheads were southerners who sympathized with the North.

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Elijah P. Lovejoy was murdered by a mob of pro-abolition zealots.

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Charles G. Finney

focused on group conversion decisions to avoid the loneliness of single acts.

One important advantage for the South was that it

fought a defensive war.

Most northern Indians gave in to federal threats and were relocated; however, many Indians

fought valiantly to regain their ancestral lands.

The Emancipation Proclamation

freed slaves only in the remaining rebel states.

In the 1820s and 1830s, trade in the Northwest emphasized

fur

According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States

gained New Mexico and California.

The Crittenden Compromise sought to

guarantee slavery where it already existed.

As president, James Monroe

had no opposition when he ran for reelection in 1820. 2) settled a number of border issues with Canada in agreements with Britain in 1817 and 1818. 3) developed the doctrine that aimed to keep European nations from interfering in Latin America. Correct Response 4) all of these

The last major battle in the Mexican War was won by General Winfield Scott's troops

in an assault on Mexico City.

In California, the Franciscans' labor force consisted of

indians

Annexation of Texas was made difficult by the

issue of slavery.

The "firebell in the night" that awakened and filled Jefferson with terror was the

issue of slavery.

The massive migration westward was driven by the desire for

lands and wealth

The Compromise of 1850 did not include

maintaining the balance between free states and slave states.

The most common form of resistance to slavery by the slaves themselves was

malingering and sabotage.

The Overland Trail ran from

missouri to oregon

Southern planters owned

more than half the slaves

John C. Calhoun believed funding internal improvements, such as a network of roads and canals in the West, would

open trading relationships between the South and West.

John Tyler of Virginia was a Whig who

opposed a protective tariff, a national bank, and internal improvements.

The moral code of white southern males emphasized

personal honor.

The percentage of Americans who could vote increased between 1790 and 1820 because

states abolished many property and taxpaying requirements.

Jackson's veto of the Maysville Road Bill

struck at both Calhoun and Clay.

Southerners defended slavery on all of the following grounds except

the "gag rule" endorsed it.

The greatest mass migration in American history was

the California gold rush.

The new Free-Soil party came out of the anti-slavery crusade, but the new party's formation ultimately hurt their cause during the election of 1848 because

the Democratic party did not have a candidate.

Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in reaction to

the Mexican War.

As a southern man with Union principles, Zachary Taylor

wanted immediate admission of California and New Mexico as free states.

The Whigs

were organized around supporters of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster.