US History CH. 12/13

Approximately how many migrants settled in Oregon via the overland route between 1840 and 1848?

11,500

How many representatives did California contribute to the national total upon becoming a state in 1850?

2

From your knowledge of the outcome of the election, select the candidate from the dropdown menu who corresponds to the color in the legend. Then, answer the subsequent questions to further demonstrate your knowledge of this pivotal political event.

A: Abraham Lincoln B: Stephen A. Douglas C: John C. Breckinridge D: John Bell

What did President John Tyler pursue in an attempt to win the election of 1844?

Annexation of Texas

How did immigrants to California and Oregon respond to the challenge of the overland trek to the West?

Close cooperation in wagon trains

What Massachusetts case ruled that labor unions were not illegal monopolies?

Commonwealth v. Hunt

Despite receiving nearly 800,000 fewer popular votes, the______ candidate secured more than three times as many electoral votes as the______candidate did.

Constitutional Unionist Northern Democratic

Which of the following was characteristic of German immigration to the United States?

German immigrants came from a wide variety of social classes and occupations.

What limited William H. Seward's campaign for the Republican nomination?

His radical image with regard to the slavery issue and his lack of appeal in certain states

America's population increased at an amazing rate between 1815 and 1860, the result of both a high birthrate and the arrival of five million immigrants. Three-fourths of foreign-born Americans in 1860 hailed from either Ireland or Germany, and their arrival forever altered the nation's population and politics. Demonstrate your understanding of early- to mid-nineteenth-century immigration by completing the following table. Select all of the characteristics that are true of the Irish who arrived in America before 1845. Select all the characteristics that apply, and leave those that do not apply blank.

Included many Protestants and tradespeople Second wave tended to be poorer than first wave

What happened to California's population between 1848 and 1852?

It increased from approximately 15,000 to almost 250,000

Which of the following characterized the vote in the election of 1844?

James K. Polk won with a large majority of electoral votes, but the popular vote margin was extremely narrow.

What did expansionists call the mission to expand the United States' territory?

Manifest destiny

The following tables contain some of the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 and the names of those who shaped them. For each provision, decide whether it favored the North or the South. For each name, decide whether each was inclined toward or against the proposed compromise.

New Mexico and Utah open to popular sovereignty:South California admitted as a free state:North Henry Clay:Pro-compromise William Seward:anti-compromise

Following the Compromise of 1850, which territories enjoyed the largest senatorial representation?

None of them

What did the Mexican government claim was the southern boundary of Texas?

Nueces River

How did the Mexican government attract American settlers in the 1820s?

Offering large land grants to empresarios who recruited American settlers

The nativist backlash against early to mid-nineteenth-century immigration fed on fears and discontents over all of the following issues except:

Welfare benefits

Henry Clay, the __________party's candidate for president in 1844, is not your friend!

Whig

Clay has proven to be inconsistent on the issue of______. At first, he claimed to support the policy as long as it would not disrupt sectional harmony. More recently, Clay came out against this important issue. How could a southern voter trust Clay on this vital matter?

annexation

Nor is Clay a friend to the immigrant voter. After all, Clay is running with Theodore Frelinghuysen as vice president. Frelinghuysen's support of______confirms that Clay's party represents Protestants and couldn't care less about the foreign-born or Catholic voter.

temperance

Which eighteenth-century historical event could Southerners point to that most closely resembled the secession crisis of 1860-1861?

The secession of the thirteen American colonies from the British Empire

Why did 1.8 million Irish migrate to the United States between 1845 and 1855?

To escape famine

What territories were ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo?

Texas, California, and New Mexico