Pruett Chapter 16-19 Test

All told, only about ____ of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slaveholding family

1/4

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 degrees

uncle tom's cabin was written in 1852 by

Harriet Beecher stowe

who was the key negotiator of the compromise of 1850

Henry clay

which one of the following has the least in common with the other four: Nat Turner, David Walker, John C. Calhoun, Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser

John C. Calhoun

For a short time in the 1850s, William Walker, an American adventurer, seized control of

Nicaragua

the underground railroad

an informal network of home where slaves could hide on their escape to freedom

John brown's execution did not produce all of the following results

brown's bloody past prior to the harper's ferry raid was exposed and he was discredited

what are the 5 major components of the compromise of 1850

california = free, popularly sovreignty = Utah and New Mexico, NO slavery in DC, Fugitive slave act, Texas surrendered New Mexico

President John Tyler vetoed the whig congress's proposal to

create a new national bank, and distribute public land sales revenue to the states

points of controversy between the US and Mexico in 1845-1846 included

damage claims by American citizens in the US against the Mexican government, the refusal of the Mexican government to meet John Slidell, and the annexation of Texas

for free blacks living in the north

discrimination against blacks concerning employment, the right to vote, and obtaining a public education was common

European immigration to the south was discouraged profoundly by

fierce economic competition with slave labor

in his quest for California, president James K. Polk

first advocated buying the are form mexico

president James buchanan not declined to use force to keep the seven southern secessionist states in the union

he believed that the constitution required congressional approval of the use of force

Abraham Lincoln won the Republican Party presidential nomination in part because

he has made fewer enemies than front-runner William Seward

historians not have attributed all of the following to Douglas's motives for championing the Kansas-Nebraska act

his commitment to addressing and solving the vexing slavery issue

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 situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated that impracticality of ______ in the territories

popular sovereignty

the wilmot proviso, if adopted, would have

prohibited slavery in all the territory annexed from Mexico

one goal of Mexico in its 1846-1848 war with the United States was to

regain sovereignty over Texas and humiliate the hated yanquis

when Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South carolina

rejoiced because Lincoln's election as president provided secessionist South Carolinians with the political pretext to vote in the state legislature in favor of secession

the plantation system of the cotton south before the civil war

resembled a tightly controlled oligarchy in its monopolistic features

the wilmot proviso, introduced into congress during the Mexican war, declared that

slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico coded to the US

the nomination of James K. Polk as the democrats' 1844 presidential candidate was secured by

southern expansionists

in the Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court did not decide

that slaves brought into northern territories are free

the largest single land addition to the US was

the Mexican cession

in "bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1850s ______ was associated with proslavery, and ______ with antislavery free-soilers

the lecompton constitution; the New England immigrant aid society

what was not true of the californios

they did not find themselves consistently at the lowest rungs of California society, even below the Indians, during the early to mid-1800s

what was not true of the cotton kingdom

they did not reap all the profits