Chapter 13 Reading Quiz
The 1857 Dred Scott decision had which of the following consequences?
The decision persuaded many Republicans that the Supreme Court and President Buchanan were part of the "slave power" conspiracy.
How did pro-annexation Democrats engineer the annexation of Texas in 1845?
The party approved it through a joint resolution, which required only a majority vote in both houses of Congress.
How did Oregon fever affect national politics in the United States in 1844?
The possibility of expansion into Texas became a major issue in the presidential election.
Which of the following statements describes the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The treaty purchased more than one-third of Mexico's territory for a mere $15 million.
What did the Wilmer Proviso, introduced in Congress in 1846, propose to do?
Prohibit slavery in any territory the Unites States acquired from Mexico
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act led to which of the following outcomes?
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was repealed.
What did nineteenth-century American expansionists mean by the term Manifest Destiny?
The citizens of the United States had a God-given right to conquer the land to the Pacific Ocean.
Americans who lined up behind the free-soil cause in the late 1840s...
declared that slavery threatened American republicanism by undermining family farms.
The northern states responded to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act by sponsoring
personal-liberty laws.
The 1845 annexation of Texas provoked...
the Mexican War.
James K. Polk's declaration that American blood has been shed "upon American soil" was his call for...
war with Mexico.
In an 1858 senate campaign speech, Abraham Lincoln...
warned that the nation could not endure as "a house divided against itself," that is, half slave and half free.
In 1858, in his so-called Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas
asserted that settlers could exclude slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation to protect it.
Which of the following statements characterizes American settlement in California before the mid-1840s?
American settlement in California was fairly sparse during this period
From 1864 to 1856, which of the following was the fundamental principle all Republicans agreed on?
An absolute opposition to the expansion of slavery into any new territories
During the 1850s, proslavery American expansionists attempted to acquire which of the following regions?
Cuba
Which of the following was the critical issue facing political parties in the late 1840s?
Expansion of slavery.
How did James Gadsden distinguish himself during Franklin Pierce's presidency?
He bought a small amount of land from Mexico to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad.
Which of the following statements describes President Buchanan's handling of the Kansas issue?
He tried but failed to have Kansas admitted as a slave state and fractured the Democratic Party.
In 1854, why did Senator Stephen A. Douglas introduce a bill to extinguish Native American rights in the Great Plains and organize the northern segment of the Louisiana Purchase into a large territory called Nebraska?
He wanted to build a transcontinental railroad from Chicago to Northern California.
Why did the Republican Party nominate Abraham Lincoln for the presidency of 1860?
His egalitarian image would attract votes among farmers and workers.
Which of the following statements describes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
It denied alleged runaways a jury trial or the right to testify in their own defense.
Which of the following statements describes the Slidell mission to Mexico in December 1845?
It failed because Mexico had suspended diplomatic relations with the United States and refused to even see Slidell.
Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
It sparked an unprecedented discussion about race and slavery in the United States and abroad.
Which of the following events took place in Kansas during the summer of 1856?
John Brown and his followers murdered and mutilated five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie.
The creation of the Republican Party, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the negation of the Missouri Compromise were all consequences of the...
Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Which of the following policies was implemented as part of the Compromise of 1850?
Passage of a new Fugitive Slave Act
Popular sovereignty solved which of the following issues temporarily?
Whether Congress had the authority to legislate slavery in the territories
