Chapter 13 Flashcards
The Republican Party founded in the 1850s strongly endorsed the same policy about slavery in the territories that ____________ had begun advocating in 1846.
David Wilmot
All of the following took place under the constitution and state laws of independent Texas EXCEPT:
Allow native Americans equal rights
The Free Soil Party:
Demonstrated that anti-slavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks
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
The Democratic party split in 1860 over the question of whether to:
Protect slavery in the territories or allow popular sovereignty in them
The Republican free labor ideology
led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible.
Why did Mississippi politician Jefferson Davis object in the 1850s to the original design of the Statue of Freedom that now adorns the U.S. Capitol dome?
Its use of an ancient Roman liberty cap on “Freedom” raised a touchy matter about slaves ‘longing for freedom
Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the United States because:
the presence of slaves there would re-ignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it.
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Compromise of 1850?
the Oregon territory would be created
The Lecompton Constitution was the:
proslavery constitution proposed for Kansas.
The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks:
actually helped the new Republican Party
The term “Californios” referred in the 1830s and 1840s to ______ in California
Mexican cattle ranchers
James Polk had four clearly defined goals when he entered the White House. Which was NOT one of his goals?
Settle the slavery dispute
During the Secession winter of 1860-1861, who offered the most widely supported compromise plan in Congress, which allowed the westward extension of the Missouri Compromise line?
John Crittenden
Stephen Douglas’s motivation for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to:
Boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad
Who questioned President Polk’s right to declare war by introducing a resolution to Congress requesting that the President specify the precise spot where blood had first been shed?
Abraham Lincoln
When democrats demanded the “reannexation” of Texas in 1844, they:
Implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase
The Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court:
Declared Congress could not ban slavery from territories
The Fugitive slave act of 1850:
Gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement
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
By 1856, the Republican Party included individuals who had been, until recently, members of each of the following political groups EXCEPT:
Federalists
The opponents of the Compromise of 1850:
Received a boost from President Zachary Taylor
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
The 1860 Republican platform stated all of the following EXCEPT that:
Slavery should be abolished in the nation’s capital
On matters related to citizenship, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that:
Only white person’s could be U.S. citizens
Which 1854 document called for the United States to seize Cuba?
The Ostend Manifesto
In 1854, the Know-Nothings won all the congressional races as well as the governorship in:
Massachusetts
In 1821, the opening of the Santa Fe Trail between Santa Fe and _____ led to a reorientation of New Mexico’s commerce from the rest of Mexico to the United States
Independence, Missouri
According to John L. O’Sullivan’s Democratic Review, what was the key to the history of nations and the rise and fall of empires?
Race
Which of the following countries did NOT go through some kind of popular upheaval in 1848?
Russia
In 1860, which state became the first to pass an ordinance of secession and declare itself separated from the Union?
South Carolina
What attracted voters to the Know-Nothing party?
Its denunciation of Roman Catholic immigrants
The American Civil War began in April 1861, when:
Confederate forces fired upon and captured Fort Sumter
During the Mexican War:
For the first time, the U.S. troops occupied a foreign capital
Which event sparked Abraham Lincoln to reenter politics?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Which two political figures agreed to keep the issue of annexing Texas out of the 1844 presidential campaign if possible?
Henry Clay and Martin Van Buren
The Republican presidential candidate in 1856 was:
John Fremont
In the 1860 election, how many presidential candidates won electoral votes:
Four
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to:
Prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico
The controversy over the arrest of Anthony Burns in 1854 shows:
The unpopularity of the Fugitive Slave Act in parts of the North
Which American naval officer negotiated a treaty that opened two Japanese ports to U.S. ships in 1854?
Matthew Perry
Who wrote on Civil Disobedience as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?
Henry David Thoreau
Which of the following statements related to ethnicity was true in California in the 1850s?
Thousands of Indian children were declared orphans and treaty as slaves
IV. South Carolina seceded from the Union
II, IV, III, I
With the exception of Alaska, what was the last piece of territory acquired by the United States toward the solidification of its present boundaries in North America?
The Gadsden Purchase
From 1848 to 1860, most of the railroad construction was in which region?
Midwest
“Fifty-four forty or fight” referred to demands for American control of:
Oregon
American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s:
Led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials
When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821:
Its Indian population was relatively large compared to its non-indian population
In the 1850s, Tennessee-born William Walker became famous for:
Seeking to establish himself as ruler of a slaveholding Nicaragua
The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 provided for all of the following EXCEPT:
U.S control of all the Oregon County
In the presidential election of 1860, the two candidates who received the most votes in the southern states were:
John Breckinridge and John Bell
The famous Lincoln-Douglas debates took place during the campaign for:
U.S. Senator from illinois in 1858
During the 1850s, 80 percent of the world’s gold came from two places that experienced gold rushes at about the same time, California and:
Australia
The California gold rush:
Resulted in laws that discriminated against “foreign minors”
The California gold rush turned _____ into perhaps the world’s most diverse city
San Francisco
During his debate with Abraham Lincoln in Freeport, Illinois, Stephen Douglas
Insisted that popular sovereignty was compatible with the Dred Scott decision
