APUSH Final Exam

Who questioned President Polk's right to declare war by introducing a resolution to Congress requesting that the president specify the precise spot where blood had first been shed?

Abraham Lincoln

American settlement in Texas in the 1920s and 30s:

led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials

President Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the United States because:

the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it

The term "Californios" referred in the 1830s and 1840s to ___ in California?

Mexican cattle ranchers

"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of:

Oregon

One aspect of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for what?

Protection of large Mexican landowners in California

As he entered the White House, which of James K. Polk's goals led to war?

Reducing the tariff

Why did slavery become more central to american politics in the 1840s?

Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new states should be free or slave

During the Mexican War:

for the first time, U.S. troops occupied a foreign capital

Who wrote "On Civil Disobedience" as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?

Henry David Thoreau