APUSH Chapter 18
In his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster called for
(B) A new, more stringent fugitive slave law (urged reasonable concessions to the south?)
For his position in his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster was viciously condemned by
Abolitionists
In 1848, the Free Soil party platform advocated all of the following except
Giving women the right to vote
The man who opened Japan to the US was
Matthew Perry
A scheme to acquire cuba from mexico in the 1850's was called
Ostend Manifesto
Many northern states passed "personal liberty laws" in response to the Compromise of 1850's provision regarding
Runaway slaves
During the 1850s, slaves gained their freedom most frequently by
Self-Purchase
The first formal diplomatic agreement between the US and China was the
Treaty of Wangiha
The U.S.' scheme to gain control of Cuba was stopped when
US adventurers bungled their invasion
The U.S.' victory in the Mexican American War resulted in
all of the above
In light of future evidence, it seems apparent that in the Compromise of 1850 the south made a tactical blunder by
demanding a strong fugitive slave law
The public liked popular sovereignty because it
fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination
Harriet Tubman gained fame by
helping slaves to escape to Canada
The Free Soilers condemned slavery because
it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise to self-employment
Of those people going to California during the gold rush, a distressingly high proportion were
lawless men
The election of 1852 was significant because it
marked the end of the whig party
The United States' scheme to gain control of cuba was stopped when
northern free-soilers fiercely protested the effort (?)
the key issue for the major parties in the 1848 election was
personalities
Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by
popular sovereignty
The Wilmot proviso, if adopted, would have
prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War
In the 1848 presidential election, the Democratic and Whig parties
remained silent on the issue of slavery
The event that brought turmoil to the administration of Zachary Taylor was
the discovery of gold in california
The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning
the new fugitive slave law
The Fugitive Slave Law included all of the flowing provisions except
the requirement that fugitive slaves be returned from canada
The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession
threatened to split national politics along North-South lines
One of Stephen Douglas's mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska was
underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery
Some Southerners felt Cuba would be an enticing prospect from annexation for all of the following reasons except it
was not controlled by any European power and would be easily acquired
The Free Soilers argued that slavery
would cause more costly wage labor to wither away
