APUSH ch. 16, APUSH ch. 17
All told, only about ____ of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slaveholding family.
1/4
The voice of white southern abolitionism fell silent at the beginning of the
1830s.
In society's basement in the South of 1860, there were nearly ____ million black human chattels.
4
In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846, the northern boundary of the United States was established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of
49°
In some counties of the deep South, especially along the lower Mississippi River, blacks accounted for more than ____ percent of the population.
75
Arrange the following in chronological order: the founding of the (A) American Colonization Society, (B) American Anti-Slavery Society, and (C) Liberty party.
A, B, C
Match each abolitionist below with his publication. A. William Lloyd Garrison 1. Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World B. Theodore Dwight Weld 2. The Liberator C. Frederick Douglass 3. Narration of the Life of ____ D. David Walker 4. American Slavery as It Is
A-2, B-4, C-3, D-1
During the debate in Congress over President Polk's requested congressional declaration of war against Mexico, the Polk administration was frequently called on by ____ to respond to "spot resolutions", demanding to know where American blood had been shed to provoke the war.
Abraham Lincoln.
Slaves fought the system of slavery by
All of these choices are correct.
During an 1837 Canadian rebellion against Britain
America was unlawfully invaded by the British.
The group that was instrumental in saving the soil of Oregon for the United States was
American missionaries to the Indians.
In 1839, enslaved Africans rose up aboard the Spanish slave ship
Amistad.
Arrange in chronological order the United States' acquisition of (A) Oregon, (B) Texas, and (C) California.
B, A, C
Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) Bear Flag revolt, (B) Slidell mission rejected, (C) declaration of war on Mexico, and (D) American troops ordered to the Rio Grande Valley.
B, D, C, A
When the Mexican government secularized authority in California
Californios eventually gained control of the land.
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Californios?
Californios were at the lowest rungs of society in the early to mid 1800s.
The area in dispute between the United States and Great Britain in 1845 lay between the
Columbia River, the forty-ninth parallel, and the Pacific Ocean.
Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) annexation of Texas, (B) Webster-Ashburton Treaty, (C) settlement of the Oregon boundary, and (D) Aroostook War.
D, B, A, C
The only member of President Tyler's Whig cabinet who did not resign in protest over his policies was
Daniel Webster
When Northwesterners questioned why all of Texas was annexed but not all of Oregon, Oregon settlement supporters such as Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri responded that
Great Britain was a far more powerful nation than Mexico.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852 by
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
All of the following are true statements about free blacks except
In the north, they forged ties with Irish, who similarly worked in menial jobs
Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four?
John C. Calhoun
The earliest known use of the term Manifest Destiny was in 1845 by
John L. O'Sullivan.
All of the following were legacies of the U.S. war with Mexico, except
Latin America solidified their friendly relations with the U.S.
Many abolitionists turned to political action in 1840, when they backed the presidential candidate of the
Liberty Party
In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called
Manifest Destiny
The first Old World Europeans to come to California were
Spanish.
All of the following were reasons why Britain was intensely interested in promoting an independent Republic of Texas except
Texas could become a location for the settlement of undesirable British emigrants.
Proslavery whites defended the institution of slavery in all of the following ways except
They claimed that slaves were set free after they reached old age
The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848), ending the Mexican War, included
United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico
Match each abolitionist below with his role in the movement.
Wendell Phillips: abolitionist golden trumpet, Frederick Douglass: black abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy: abolitionist martyr William Lloyed Garrison: abolitionist newspaper publisher
Texas was annexed to the United States as a result of
a joint resolution rather than a treaty.
The Aroostook War was
a small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada
The idea of transporting blacks back to Africa was
an expression of widespread American racism
Those people most adamantly opposed to President James K. Polk's expansionist program in Oregon, Texas and the Southwest were the
antislavery forces
The Californios' political ascendancy in California ended
as a result of the influx of Anglo golddiggers.
The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president to
attract the vote of the states' rightists.
The British-American dispute over the border of Maine and Canada was solved
by a compromise that gave each side some territory.
Plantation mistresses
commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.
As their main agricultural crop, southern subsistence farmers raised
corn
John Tyler joined the Whig party because he
could not stomach the dictatorial tactics of Andrew Jackson
As a result of white southerners' brutal treatment of their slaves and their fear of potential slave rebellions, the South
developed a theory of biological racial superiority to justify slavery.
For free blacks living in the North
discrimination against blacks concerning employment, the right to vote, and obtaining a public education was common.
Northern attitudes toward free blacks before the Civil War have been described as
disliking individuals but liking the race
Members of the planter aristocracy
dominated society and politics in the South.
By 1860, the overwhelming majority of all southern whites did not own slaves, but instead
farmed an annually rotated sequential mix of wheat, tobacco, rice, and cotton.
In the presidential election of 1844, the Whig candidate, Henry Clay
favored both the postponing and the annexation of Texas.
European immigration to the South was discouraged most profoundly by
fierce economic competition with slave labor.
In his quest for California, President James K. Polk
first advocated buying the area from Mexico.
All of the following were characteristic of slaves in the mid-nineteenth century United States except
floggings were very uncommon and rare.
Relations between Britain and the United States in the 1830s and 1840s could be characterized as
generally tense, with periods of both violence and peaceful resolution.
All of the following happened after President John Tyler's veto of a bill to establish a new Bank of the United States except
he sent legislation to Congress for the creation of a National Bank.
The profitable southern slave system
hobbled the economic development of the region as a whole
When the war with Mexico began, President James K. Polk
hoped to fight a limited war, ending with the conquest of California.
One goal of Mexico in its 1846-1848 war with the United States was to
humiliate the bullies of the North by invading the U.S. and freeing black slaves
Most slaves were raised
in stable two-parent households
The election of 1844 was notable because
it was fought over the issue of expansionism.
Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because
its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land.
All of the following were weaknesses of the slave plantation system except that
its land continued to remain predominately in the hands of the small farmers.
Slaves were denied an education because
masters believed that reading brought new ideas that might lead to their discontent.
One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation
might give more power to the supporters of slavery.
By the mid-nineteenth century
most slaves lived on large plantations.
All of the following were true of slavery in the South except that
most slaves were raised in single unstable parent households.
The most pro-Union of the white southerners were
mountain whites residing in the Appalachian range.
The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to
natural reproduction.
____ represented the group in North America that expressed the most vigorous support for the United States gaining political control of all of the Oregon Country.
northern Democrats.
Which of the following represents an accurate description of the response by Americans generally or a subsection of Americans to the Oregon settlement with Great Britain?
northwestern states joining with antislavery forces to condemn the pact.
By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the
old South states of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Forced separation of spouses, parents, and children was most common
on small plantations and in the Upper South.
In arguing for the continuation of slavery after 1830, southerners
placed themselves in opposition to much of the rest of the western world
Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of
purchasing their way out of slavery
The plantation system of the Cotton South before the Civil War
resembled a tightly controlled oligarchy in its monopolistic features.
Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the
rich soil of the Willamette River Valley.
As a result of the panic of 1837
several states defaulted on their debts to Britain.
As a result of the introduction of the cotton gin
slavery was reinvigorated in the South.
The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that
slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States
The nomination of James K. Polk as the Democrats' 1844 presidential candidate was secured by
southern expansionists.
Most white southerners were
subsistence farmers.
The British government desired a political and military alliance with the independent Republic of Texas because
such an alliance would limit the ability of the United States to achieve political and economic dominance over Latin America.
The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was
supported by the black leader Martin Delaney
The Wilmot Proviso
symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories.
The largest single addition to American territory was
the Mexican Cession.
President Polk's claim that "American blood [had been shed] on the American soil" referred to news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near
the Rio Grande.
All the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom except
the South reaped all the profits from the cotton trade.
Slavery's greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was
the enforced separation of slave families
William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to
the immediate abolition of slavery in the South
In 1846, the United States went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except
the impulse to satisfy those asking for spot resolutions.
By 1860, life for slaves was most difficult in the
the new southwest states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
The primary reason that the British government decided to compromise with the United States on the Oregon Country border was
their belief that the territory was not worth fighting over.
Slaves regarded the least prosperous, non-slaveholding whites as
their equals in doing the least desirable work.
The majority of southern whites owned no slaves because
they could not afford the purchase price.
Those in the North who opposed the abolitionists believed that these opponents of slavery
were creating disorder and havoc in America that threatened the nation's constitutional fabric
As a substitute for the wage-incentive system, slaveowners most often used the
whip as a motivator
In Varying Viewpoints: What Was the True Nature of Slavery, the contemporary historian Eugene Genovese agrees with previous historians of American slavery that
this southern institution embraced a form of economic paternalism which reflected the need of southern slaveholders to control and coax labor out of their reluctant and recalcitrant "investments."