CHAPTER 13 Flashcards
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.
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.
“Fifty-four forty or fight” referred to demands for American control of:
Oregon.
As he entered the White House, which of James K. Polk’s goals led to war?
Bringing California into the Union.
Until the 1870s, who in essence controlled the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande?
Comanches
Winning the Mexican War did what in regard to trade for the United States?
Gaining valuable trade ports tripled trade with China by 1860.
The Wilmot Proviso, admission of California into the Union, and the Missouri Compromise focused on what?
The extension of slavery was a volatile issue.
The opening of Japan to United States trade led to what?
Japan became a modernized military power.
Why was the extension of slavery significant politically?
Both the North and South wanted to control the Senate.
What was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850?
The New Mexico and Utah Territories would use popular sovereignty to decide about slavery.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:
gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement.
Stephen Douglas’s motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:
boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
Which of the following is an example of the political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Whig Party collapsed, and many disgruntled northerners joined the new Republican Party.
What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing Party?
Its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants.
The Republican free labor ideology:
led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible.
