CH 13 QUIZ

The 1856 beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate

was a vicious assault carried out by a member of congress

The 1854 Ostend Manifesto

was part of an attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba

The presidential election of 1844

was won by a Democrat

James Buchanan

weakly endorsed the Dred Scott decision, supported the admission of Kansas as a slave state, and pressured Congress to admit Kansas under the Lecompton constitution.

In the 1820s, most of the settlers from the United States who migrated to Texas were

white southerners and their slaves

In the 1850s, in an effort to undercut the Fugitive Slave Act, some northern states

passed laws preventing the deportation of fugitive slaves

The Wilmot Proviso

prohibited slavery in any land conquered by Mexico

Before the early 1850s, Americans who traveled west on the overland trails were generally

relatively young people who traveled in family groups

By 1830, Texas

saw the United States unsuccessfully attempt to purchase it

In 1836, the Battle of the Alamo

saw the death of Davy Crockett

In the 1840s, regional critics of President James K. Polk claimed his policies favored the

south

In the 1850s, the "Young America" movement

supported the expansion of American democracy throughout the world

In the 1840s, critics of territorial expansion by the United State

warned it would it increase the controversy over slavery

When it came to the issue of the extension of slavery, President James K. Polk favored extension of

The Missouri Compromise line

In the mid-1840s, the Oregon country in the Pacific Northwest

included an Indian population that had been devastated by disease

The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

intensified the debate over slavery

Which of the following statements regarding the Kansas-Nebraska Act is FALSE?

it was sponsored by Henry Clay

In 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto

led to independence for Texas

In the 1820s and 1830s, the government of Mexico

moved from favoring to opposing immigration into Texas

In the 1850s, the issue of slavery complicated the proposal to build a transcontinental railroad, as

non-slave-owning northerners and slave-owning southerners could not agree on a route.

The free-soil ideology included

opposition to the expansion of slavery

In the election of 1860,

Abraham Lincoln was elected with much less than half of the popular vote

When President Polk received the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, he

Angrily claimed that Trist had violated his instructions

The admission of California into the United States was a divisive national issue because

California's entry would upset the numerical balance of the nation's slave and free states

As president, James K. Polk

Convinced the British government to divide Oregon territory at the 49th parallel

In the 1860 elections, the political party most deeply divided over slavery was the

Democratic Party

In the 1848 elections, the new party that emerged as a political force was the

Free-Soil Party

Which of the following towns served as a major departure point for migrants traveling west on the overland trails?

Independence, Missouri

In the mid-1850s, the struggle over Kansas saw

John Brown murder several pro-slavery southerners

The first Republican candidate for president was

John C Fremont

In the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates,

Lincoln argued slavery was a threat to the growth of free labor.

In 1844, President James K. Polk supported the acquisition of

Oregon and Texas

In 1836, Texas did not immediately join the United States, because

President Andrew Jackson thought that action would add to sectional tension

During the Mexican War,

President James K. Polk personally plotted military strategy for the United States

During the debate on the Compromise of 1850,

President Zachary Taylor suddenly died

The political party that came into being largely in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the

Republican Party

In the election of 1852,

The Free-Soil Party gained strength

Within the ideology of Manifest Destiny were all the following beliefs EXCEPT that

United States expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada.

The key to victory for the United States in the Mexican War was

Winfield Scott's seizure of Mexico City

In The Pro-Slavery Argument (1837), John C. Calhoun stated that slavery was

a "positive good"

In 1845, the immediate cause of war with Mexico was

a border dispute

The 1853 Gadsden Purchase

advanced the interests of southern railroads

Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States

agreed to pay millions to Mexico

In 1849, President Zachary Taylor favored admitting California

as a free state

Kansas entered the United States

as a free state at the end of Buchanan's administration.

During the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates, it became clear that Lincoln

believed slavery was morally wrong, but he was not an abolitionist and he did not believe racial equality was feasible at the time.

Southern defenders of slavery made all of the following arguments EXCEPT that

black codes protected slaves from abuse

The election of 1856 saw

former president Millard Fillmore in the running.

Between 1840 and 1860, most migrants traveling west on the overland trails

found the journey to be a very communal experience

The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California as a

free state, along with a strengthened fugitive slave law

As a result of his 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln

gained many new supporters outside of Illinois.

The Chinese who came to California during the gold rush

had similar aspirations as the American participants

As a result of the gold rush, by 1850 California

has a very diverse population

The Supreme Court held in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

Following John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, many southerners assumed

the North was dominated by people intent on destroying the South.

The Mexican War resulted from

the United States provoking Mexico to fight

The 1857 Lecompton (Kansas) constitution was

twice rejected by a majority of Kansas voters.

In the California gold rush,

upwards of 95 percent of the participants were white men