Period 5 Test
When was the Republican Party formed?
1854
Homestead Act
1862- granted 160 acres of land for FREE to anyone over 21 who had never taken arms against the U.S government
Who was the Mexican leader?
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Abolitionists
-thought that slavery was morally wrong -wanted slavery to be removed everywhere
When was the Mexican-American War?
1846-1848
Regulatory Laws- required everyone living in Mexico including Texas to become Mexican citizens and...
1. convert to Roman Catholicism 2. file legal documents in Spain 3. end the practice of slavery
Which of the following would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A New England abolitionist
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the perception of many White Southerners that antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s?
Congress voted to end the interstate slave trade.
"With regard to the northwestern States, to which the ordinance of 1787 was applied—Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan—no one now believes that any one of those States, if they thought proper to do it, has not just as much a right to introduce slavery within her borders as Virginia has a right to maintain the existence of slavery within hers. "Then, if in this struggle of power and empire between the two classes of states a decision of California has taken place adverse to the wishes of the southern States, it is a decision not made by the General [federal] Government; it is a decision respecting which they cannot complain to the General Government. It is a decision made by California herself, and which California had incontestably a right to make under the Constitution of the United States. . . . The question of slavery, either of its introduction or interdiction, is silent as respects the action of this [federal] Government; and if it has been decided, it has been by a different body—by a different power—by California herself, who had a right to make that decision." Senator Henry Clay, speech in the United States Senate, 1850 The excerpt best reflects which of the following historical situations?
Congressional leaders sought political compromise to resolve discord between the North and the South.
Who was the president during the Manifest Destiny?
James K. Polk
When was gold discovered near the Sierra Nevada mountains?
January 1848
What was important about the battle of San Jac
It forced Santa Anna to recongnize that Texas was independent
The first attempt to apply the doctrine of popular sovereignty in determining the status of slavery occurred in
Kansas
Missouri Compromise
Maine=free state Missouri=slave state
When was Uncle Tom's Cabin published?
March 20, 1852
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case in 1857 effectively repealed the
Missouri Compromise
Which of the following principles was established by the Dred Scott decision?
National legislation could not limit the spread of slavery in the territories.
"The American Republicans of the city and county of Philadelphia, who are determined to support the NATIVE [White, Protestant] AMERICANS in their Constitutional Rights of peaceably assembling to express their opinions on any question of Public Policy, and to SUSTAIN THEM AGAINST THE ASSAULTS OF ALIENS AND FOREIGNERS are requested to assemble on MONDAY AFTERNOON, May 6th, 1844 at 4 o'clock, at the corner of Master and Second street, Kensington [a section of Philadelphia], to express their indignation [anger] at the outrage on Friday evening last, which was perpetrated by the Irish Catholics." Text from a poster announcing a meeting of the American Republican Party, later renamed the American Party, Philadelphia, 1844 Historians could best use the excerpt as an example of which of the following?
Political responses to changing demographics in the United States
The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ?
Possession of California and most of the Southwest
Henry Clay
The Great Compromiser
John C. Calhoun
The Great Nullifier
"I am filled with deep emotion at finding myself standing here in the place . . . from which sprang the institutions under which we live. . . . I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . It was not the mere matter of the separation of the colonies from the mother land; but something in that Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time. It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men. . . . "Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it can't be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. "Now, in my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need be no bloodshed and war. . . . And I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the Government. . . . "My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. . . . I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by." President-elect Abraham Lincoln, speaking at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, February 22, 1861 The excerpt most likely reflects which of the following historical situations?
States in the South had begun seceding after the presidential election.
Which of the following factors best explains the territorial expansion of slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century?
The Mexican-American War incorporated extensive new lands into the United States.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was most similar in intent to which of the following earlier legislative initiatives?
The Missouri Compromise in 1820
In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT
The abolition of slavery throughout the United States
"The Vigilance Committee of Boston inform you that the MOCK TRIAL of the poor Fugitive Slave has been further postponed.... Come down, then, Sons of the Puritans: for even if the poor victim is to be carried off by the brute force of arms, and delivered over to Slavery, you should at least be present to witness the sacrifice, and you should follow him in sad procession with your tears and prayers, and then go home and take such action as your manhood and your patriotism may suggest. Come, then, by the early trains on MONDAY, and rally.... Come with courage and resolution in your hearts; but, this time, with only such arms as God gave you." Proclamation addressed "To the Yeomanry of New England," Boston, 1854 The proclamation most clearly provides evidence for which of the following?
The failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tensions
Anti-immigrant nativism of the 1840s and 1850s had the most in common with which of the following earlier developments?
The passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798), which limited rights for foreign-born residents
Which of the following best describes the position on slavery of most northerners during the sectional crises of the 1850s?
They were willing to accept slavery where it existed but opposed further expansion to the territories.
Joshua Giddings, congressman from Ohio, speech in the United States House of Representatives, 1846 Which of the following comparisons best describes Whitman's and Giddings' arguments about the Mexican-American War?
Whitman argued that the war was intended to deter bad behavior, while Giddings argued that the war represented aggression by the United States.
Republicans were....
anti-slavery
What does Manifest Destiny mean?
continental expansionism
The fugative slave act in the compromise of 1850
if you did not help return a slave to the south they would be fined or arrested
In the first half of the nineteenth century, a major consequence of United States expansionism was
increased sectional discord, accompanied by the growing failure of compromise
From Khan what was the Compromise of 1850 seen as
it was seen as a band-aid over the sectional tension between the topic of slavery
Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party of the 1850s typically supported
restrictions on Catholics' holding public office
"We do not know whether free laborers ever sleep. . . . The free laborer must work or starve. He is more of a slave than the negro, because he works longer and harder for less allowance than the slave, and has no holiday, because the cares of life with him begin when its labors end. He has no liberty, and not a single right." George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters, 1857 The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that
slaves lived better than northern factory workers
Tejanos
texans of mexican orgin
Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT
the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery
The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for...
the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
When was Manifest Destiny period?
1844-1877
When did Texas become a state?
1845
Anti-Slavery
-did not want slavery in new western states -did not think it was possible to get rid of it in the southern states
Causes of the Mexican American War
1. Texas Annexation 2.Manifest Destiny
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1848- ended the Mexican-American war. US got California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado
Pacific Railway Act
1862- granted railroad companies 100 million acres for the transcontinental railroad
"Your Memorialist . . . represents to your honorable body, that he has devoted much time and attention to the subject of a railroad from Lake Michigan through the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and that he finds such a route practicable, the results from which would be incalculable—far beyond the imagination of man to estimate. . . . "It would enable us, in the short space of eight days (and perhaps less) to concentrate all the forces of our vast country at any point from Maine to Oregon. . . . Such easy and rapid communication with such facilities for exchanging the different products of the different parts would bring all our immensely wide spread population together. . . . "[W]ith a railroad to the Pacific, and thence to China by steamers, can be performed in thirty days, being now a distance of nearly seventeen thousand miles. . . Then the drills and sheetings of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, and other manufactures of the United States, may be transported to China in thirty days; and the teas and rich silks of China, in exchange, come back to New Orleans, to Charleston, to Washington, to Baltimore, to Philadelphia, New York, and to Boston, in thirty days more." Asa Whitney, merchant, "National Railroad, Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean," memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, 1845 Which of the following most directly contributed to the request expressed in the excerpt?
The desire for international trade and access to global market
The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the
passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act
All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the
passage of the Wilmot Proviso
