Chapter 13 RA

The Wilmot Proviso state that

slavery would not be allowed in the land taken from Mexico

Which of the following was NOT a position supported by the Republican Party prior to the Civil War?

stemming the influx of immigrants

Which of the following served as a major cause of the war with Mexico?

the annexation of Texas

President Polk accepted a compromise with Britain on the Oregon dispute because

The United States was facing problems with Mexico

Which of the following was NOT true of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

It was overturned by the Dred Scott decision

Which of the following acts of Congress was declared unconstitutional in the Dred Scott decision?

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Which of the following would NOT be considered an event illustrating the tensions that directly led to the Civil War?

Nat Turner's Rebellion

Which of the following political groups had its effors to find a compromise over slavery effectively ended by Taney's decision in the Dred Scott case?

Northern Democrats

Northerners were most upset by the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision because

decision allowed slavery in the territories

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

ended the Mexican war in 1848

Which of the following political parties based its entire platform on the issue of immigration?

know-nothings

Winthrop suggests that Polk's slogan of "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" was based mainly on which of the following attitudes?

polk hoped to get political benefit

Which of the following best describes the goal of John brown's raid of Harpers Ferry?

raiding the military arsenal to supply later slave uprising