APUSH 13-15

For future Supreme Courts, one of the key points of the 14th amendment would be which of the following

"nor deny...equal protection of the laws"

Which period was the peak of manifest destiny?

1842-1853

To issue the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln felt that he needed which of the following?

A military victory

To which politicians is Clay directing the last line of the excerpt?

Southerners who were threatening to secede

Which of the following acts of Congress was declared unconstitutional in the Dred Scott decision?

The Missouri Compromise of 1820

One attempt to prevent slavery in the territories was the...

Wilmot Provisio

According to Sherman, the act of foraging as conducted by his army...

was skillful and systematic

Northerners were most upset by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision because....

the decision allowed slavery in the territories

Compromise of 1850

(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) federal assumption of Texas debt, (5) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas

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

Admitting California as a free state

What led Sherman's march to reply on foraging?

Decision to sever supply to Atlanta

In proclaiming that all persons born in the United States were citizens, the 14th amendment directly repudiated which?

Dred Scott Decision

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

According to the diary entry, President Polk felt pressure to accept the treaty with Mexico for which of the following reasons?

He believed the Whigs would not support more aggressive expansion

President Polk was motivated to reject the treaty with Mexico because of which of the following?

Many Southerners wanted the US to get larger gains in territory

By going to war, the United States gained territory labeled as the...

Mexican Cession

Which of the following parts of the compromise of 1850 was the most appealing to the South?

Passing a new Fugitive Slave Act

President Lincoln delayed issuing an Emancipation Proclamation because of his concern that it would...

cause the border states to secede

Ultimately, Sherman viewed foraging as...

indispensable to the success of his campaign

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

An increase in which of the following was the key part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act to attract Southern support?

popular soverignty