APUSH Chapter 13
The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during the campaign for:
A congressional seat from Illinois in 1856
Who questioned President Polk's right to declare war by introducing a resolution to Congress requesting the president to specify the precise spot where blood had first been shed?
Abraham Lincoln
The republican free labor ideology:
led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible
On matter related to citizenship, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in the Dred Scott decision that:
only white persons could be U.S. citizens.
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to:
prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico
The Democratic Party split in 1860 over the question of whether to:
protect slavery in the territories or allow popular soveirgnity in them.
The California gold rush:
resulted in laws that discriminated against "foreign miners"
Presidents 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.
Which of the following puts these events in the proper chronological order, from first to last>
E. II, IV, III, I
Who was responsible for the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kansas and led the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859?
John Brown
"Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of:
Oregon
What 1854 document called for the US to seize Cuba?
Ostend Manifesto
According to John L. O'Sullivan's Democratic Review, what was the thy to the history of nations and the rise and fall of empires?
Race
The 1860 Republican platform stated all of the following EXCEPT:
Slavery should be abolished in the nation's capital.
In 1860, which state became the first to pass an ordinance of secession and declare itself separated from the Union?
South Carolina
Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840s?
Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for all of the following stipulations EXCEPT?
The transfer of California to the United States
Which of the following statements related to ethnicity was true in California in the 1850s?
Thousands of Indian children were declared orphans and treated as slaves
Stephen Douglas's motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to
boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
Who wrote "On Civil Disobedience" as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?
Henry David Thoreau
