APUSH chapters 14-15
The Missourians who crossed into Kansas to cast fraudulent ballots and promote the proslavery cause called
"Bordered ruffians"
Bent's fort and the American community in Santa Fe are examples of the
"Frontier of inclusion"
The name for what was usually the first stage of the development of a Frontier, when interaction and intermarriage between newcomers and natives is a
"Frontier of inclusion"
Thee graph on overland immigration to Oregon, California, and Utah shows that the largest number of emigrants moved to all three places in the year
1851
All of the following characters appear in uncle toms cabin except
Goodman brown
After Texas became independent, texans...
Gradually identified all Spanish-speaking as defiling Texas
James Buchanan became the democratic party's candidate in 1856 for all of the following except
His strong political leadership under former president pierce
The Trejano community included all of the following except
Illegal immigrants, poor tenant farmers, and wealthy ranchers
The participants in the California gold rush
Included many Chinese who were soon discriminated against
The map of the situation in 1840 when texas was changing from a mexican provinve to a U.S. State shows that indian territory
Included parts if oklahoma, kansas, and nebraska
On the overland trails
Indian attacks eerie fairly rare
The "frontier of exclusion" in Oregon was clearly marked by the
Indian wars following the killing Marcus and Narcissa Witman
John browns raid on harpers ferry did all of the following except
Inspire multiple acts of slave diffidence across the south
Senator Seward of NY argued that slavery was not only morally wrong, but it was also, for the whole country
Intellectually subversive
The fur trade in the west
Involved a wide range of people from blacks to métis to Mexicans
By 1850, all of the following were true if the US except
It had made manufactured goods the nations principle export
All of the following are true of the fugitive slave laws except
It quieted abolitionist free blacks such as Frederick Douglass
Authors identified with the American Renaissance include all if the following except
James cooper
Texas was annexed in 1845 in large part because
James k. Polk had won the election on an expansionist platform
The map of the exploration of the continent shows that the person who found the major route west that pioneers used later was
Jedediah Smith
In the years before Texas became independent, Tejanos...
Joined Americans in favoring more provincial self-government
After 1854, the portion of Indian territory west of the Missouri River became the territories of...
Kansas and Nebraska
The legislation sponsored by Stephen A. Douglas, which in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise in return for southern support for a transcontinental railroad to be built west of Chicago, was the
Kansas-Nebraska act
The popular name for American Party members who often belonged to secret Protestants fraternal societies
Know-nothings
The state constitution of Kansas, under which proslavery territorial government applied for admission to the union in 1857, was known as the
Lecompton constitution
The debates on slavery between the Illinois republican and democratic candidates for the US senate that occurred in seven towns
Lincoln-Douglas debates
The map of the Mexican-American war shows that the
Major battles, except one, occurred In the undisputed Mexican territory
The argument that the United States had a god-given right too expand westward, provided by john O'Sullivan in 1845, was called
Manifest destiny
The 1851 novel by Herman Melville recounting the story of captain Ahab's search for a great white whale
Moby dick
The map of the Kansas-Nebraska acts shows that the Nebraska territory included parts of all the following present-day states except
Oregon
The map of the overland trails shows that the
Oregon and California trails divided in Nebraska
The strong, contagious feeling that to gain land and be patriotic in the 1840s, one should move to Oregon was known as
Oregon fever
The document composed by Pierre soule, john mason, and James Buchanan proposing that the US buy or, if necessary, seize Cuba from Spain became known as the
Ostend manifesto
The map of the compromise of the 1850 shows that all of the following were obtained as a result as a result of the Mexican-American war except
Part if Nebraska
The government contributed to the development of the west by doing all of the following except
Paying the cost to remove the Indians from land that was to be purchased by whites
Relations between the American colonists in Texas and the government in Mexico City deteriorated after 1828 for all of the following reasons except
Pre-1830 American settlers generally wanted independence for Texas in 1830
The Mexican-American war showed that
Press coverage feeds on emotional, nationalistic public feelings
The man who beat Charles sumner senseless on the senate floor in 1856
Preston brooks
The map of the US population and settlement in 1850 shows all of the following except
San Fransisco and the Bay Area were the most heavy populated parts of California
The circumstances under which Americans settled in Texas differed from the circumstances under which they settled elsewhere in that in Texas they
Signed a contract to become catholic and citizens of another country
The first state to secede, on dec. 20 1869, was
South Carolina
The politics of expansionism meant that
Southerners believed expansion was a political and economic necessity
When the south states began to secede
Southerners were divided along up-country, low-country lines
The maps of how Texas changed from a Mexican province to a U.S. State show that in 1850,...
Texas relinquished the land that became the Oklahoma panhandle
The map of territory added (1845-1853) shows that
The Mexican cession of the 1848 included much of present-day Texas
All of the following are examples of how national organizations were breaking into sectional parts by 1860 except
The Republican Party, founded in 1854
The election of 1852 was important because
The disagreement at the conventions showed that the national parties were growing weaker
The Mexican-American war involved all of the following except
The easy defeat of the Mexicans who gave little resistance
The American party developed as a result of all of the following except
The feeling that secret organizations were a threat to society
The Oregon treaty between the US and Britain in 1846...
Was a compromise setting the Canadian-US border at the 49th parallel
The strategy of the confederates at the Montgomery convention was to
Chose moderates as leaders and claim secession was in the mutual interest of north and south
In the debates between the two candidates
Douglas accused Lincoln of favoring social equality for blacks, Though this was untrue
Life in the west for most, as shown by the California gold rush, was
A dirty, dreary time if instability racial tension
The results of the California gold rush included all of the following except
A population that came and went quickly leaving little note
The second American party system witnessed al, of the following except
A proposal by David Wilmot to end slavery in the south
The liberty party advocated all of the following except
Abolishing the international slave trade
The expansionist sentiments of the pierce administration are represented by all of the following except the
Access gained to panama with the Clayton-bulwer treaty
President Polk, prior to the declaration of war with Mexico, did all of the following except
Approve the bear flag revolt in California
The Whigs called the Mexican-American war "mr. Polks war" because they
Believed Polk had misled the country and that the war was unnecessary
When the lower south seceded, Lincoln
Believed democracy itself was on trial and decided to hold firm and wait
Zachary Taylor and the Whigs won in 1848 for all of the following reasons except
The liberty party refused to cooperate with the free-soilers
In the debates preceding the compromise of 1850, john c. Calhoun argued all of the following except
The people of the territories could exclude slavery before statehood
Those who intent illy contributed to the rising violence in Kansas included all of the following except
The settlers who moved there for land
In the 1850's the belief that there was a southern slave-owner conspiracy to make the entire country a slave country spread amount Northerners because
The south was very defensive and demanded equality in the senate and a veto over presidential candidates
The president who died suddenly during the debate over the compromise of 1850 was
Zachary Taylor
