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What was the Kansas conflict over slavery known as?
Bleeding Kansas
Who gave the Seventh of March speech?
Daniel Webster
At the Democratic convention of 1860, Senator Stephen Douglas did which of the following?
Failed to muster the necessary two-thirds vote, so the entire body dissolved
Members of the Know-Nothing party were all of the following except:
Irish immigrants
All of the following is true about the Battle of Buena Vista except:
It ended the war with Mexico.
What was one argument against annexing Texas to the United States?
It might give more power to the supporters of slavery.
After Abraham Lincoln was elected president, all of the following states seceded from the Union except:
New Jersey
What was Commodore Matthew C. Perry best known for?
Opening Japan to U.S. trade
Who were border ruffians?
Proslavery Missourians who rushed into Kansas to vote illegally and battle antislavery forces
Which of the following terms of the Compromise of 1850 was a concession to the North?
The domestic slave trade (but not slavery) would be abolished in the District of Columbia.
All of the following are true of the Crittenden amendments except:
They prevented slavery from becoming permanent in a territory.
What was the primary purpose of the Gadsden Purchase of 1854?
To facilitate the construction of a southern transcontinental railroad
Who primarily made up the Constitutional Union party?
Whigs and Know-Nothings
All of the following are true about the California gold rush except:
It resulted in a balance of free and slave states in the Union.
What was the most durable political offspring of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The emergence of the new Republican Party
All of the following were true of Whigs' gripes with John Tyler except:
He was impeached by the House of Representatives.
Why did the Wilmot Proviso increase tensions between the North and the South?
It sought to prohibit slavery.
Which best describes the scheme to seize Cuba and turn it into several new slate states?
It urged that the administration offer $120 million for Cuba.
Which of the following applies to Hinton R. Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South?
It was banned and burned throughout the South.
Which of the following is true of the panic of 1857?
It was caused in part by gold pouring into the economy and inflating the currency.
All of the following were true of the Republican Party during this period except:
It was generally south of the Mason-Dixon line.
Why did the British government desire a political and military alliance with the independent Republic of Texas?
Such an alliance would limit the ability of the United States to achieve political and economic dominance of Latin America.
All of the following were true of the Dred Scott decision except:
The Missouri Compromise, banning slavery north of 36° 30', was repealed.
Why did the public like popular sovereignty?
It fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination.
Which was a consequence of the Fugitive Slave Law?
It inspired more northerners to take a stand against slavery.
All of the following were true of the Walker Tariff of 1846 except that it did which of the following?
Proved to be a poor revenue producer
What did the Manifest Destiny slogan "Fifty-four Forty or Fight" refer to?
American demands for acquiring all of the Oregon territory from Britain
Why did the Free Soil Party condemn the expansion of slavery?
It destroyed opportunities for white workers to rise from wage-earning dependence to independent ownership.
All of the following were true of the 1848 presidential candidates except:
Lewis Cass ran a pro-slavery campaign.
What was the most immediate result of James Polk's Successful Manifest Destiny campaign?
The annexation of Texas to the United States
Which of the following was a term of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The United States would pay Mexico $15 million.
How was the British-American dispute over the border of Maine and Canada solved?
By a negotiated political compromise that gave each side some territory along the disputed border
Which of the following is true of the Underground Railroad?
It consisted of an informal chain of antislavery homes.
Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by which of the following?
Popular sovereignty or democratic vote by the white male residents of each divided territory
As provided to Congress, what did the Lecompton Constitution provide for?
The admission of Kansas as a slave state
What group was instrumental in saving Oregon for the United States?
American Christian missionaries to the Indians
What did Stephen A. Douglas argue in his Freeport Doctrine during the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
That slavery would remain illegal if the people of a territory voted it down, regardless of the Supreme Court's contrary decision in the Dred Scott case
Who was chosen as the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
The election of 1852 marked the effective end of which of the following?
The Whig Party
What was the reaction of most Northerners to John Brown?
They condemned the raid on Harper's Ferry but mourned Brown as a martyr after his execution.
Who did Democrats nominate as their presidential candidate in the election of 1856?
James Buchanan
Why did the Whigs put John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president?
To attract the vote of the states' rightists