Chapter 13

Question 1

Nominated former President Martin Van Buren as their candidate in 1848

Answer 1

Free Soil Party

Question 2

Diplomat who refused Polk’s orders to acquire all of Mexico and negotiated the current of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 2

Nicholas Trist

Question 3

Territory where slavery was not restricted as part of the Compromise of 1850

Answer 3

New Mexico

Question 4

Political party that aggressively supported westward expansion

Answer 4

Democratic Party

Question 5

The first Whig president

Answer 5

William Henry Harrison

Question 6

Candidate in 1848 associated with “popular sovereignty”

Answer 6

Lewis Cass

Question 7

Elected President of the Independent Republic of Texas

Answer 7

Sam Houston

Question 8

Led the Mormon migration from Illinois to the Great Salt Lake

Answer 8

Brigham Young

Question 9

Led a revolt in Cuba in 1849

Answer 9

Narciso Lopez

Question 10

Men who tried to single handedly capture new territories for the US

Answer 10

Filibusters

Question 11

U.S. commander that captured Mexico City in the Mexican War

Answer 11

Winfield Scott

Question 12

Party that unofficially opposed the War with Mexico, but supported it to not look unpatriotic

Answer 12

Whig Party

Question 13

Missouri businessman who brought 300 Protestant/slaveholding families into North Mexico (Texas)

Answer 13

Stephen F. Austin

Question 14

Said to have received visions from God endorsing polygamy

Answer 14

Joseph Smith

Question 15

Popular leader of U.S. forces in Mexico that vaulted him to Presidency

Answer 15

Zachary Taylor

Question 16

Raised the “bear flag” of an independent California after capturing Sonoma

Answer 16

John C. Fremont

Question 17

Territory that the slogan “fifty-four forty of fight” called for

Answer 17

Oregon

Question 18

Senator that opposed the Compromise of 1850 because it violated “higher law”

Answer 18

William Seward

Question 19

President who was considered a northern man but with southern principles

Answer 19

Franklin Pierce

Question 20

Senator that called for compromise in his “Seventh of March” speech

Answer 20

Daniel Webster

Question 21

James Birney ran for this party and was said to have stolen the election of 1844 from Clay

Answer 21

Liberty Party

Question 22

Declared the enforcement of fugitive slave laws was a federal responsibility

Answer 22

Prigg vs. Pennsylvania

Question 23

President who provoked war with Mexico to acquire California and New Mexico

Answer 23

James K. Polk

Question 24

Most respected member of congress during the antebellum period

Answer 24

Henry Clay

Question 25

Whig Vice-President who broke with his party and became a Democrat once President

Answer 25

John Tyler

Question 26

Author who inspired young men to "go West"

Answer 26

Horace Greely

Question 27

The filibusters oaf the 1840s and 1850s

Answer 27

Attempted to acquire new territories in which to extend slavery

Question 28

In the Mexican War

Answer 28

The United States won every battle due to its superior leadership and weapons

Question 29

The Mexican Commander who granted Texas independence for Mexico was

Answer 29

Santa Anna

Question 30

Anglo settlers in Texas declared their independence when

Answer 30

A conservative Mexican government attempted to consolidate authority over their settlements

Question 31

The term manifest destiny refers to

Answer 31

The belief that Providence had destined the American continent to be dominated by the United States

Question 32

Which of the following is not true about Brigham Young?

Answer 32

He was the founder of the Church if Latter Day Saints

Question 33

Which of the following was true of the Texas Revolution?

Answer 33

Many Mexicans tejanos joined with the Anglo-Amercians to fight for independence

Question 34

The man most responsible for passing the Compromise of 1850 was

Answer 34

Stephen Douglas

Question 35

Which of the following was not part of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 35

Repeal of all existing fugitive slave laws

Question 36

The Treaty if Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 36

Authorized the United States to pay $15 million to Mexico ~ fixed the Texas border at the Rio Grande ~ ended the United States' war with Mexico ~ Ceded the Northwestern section if Mexico and the U.S.

Question 37

In 1850, southerners were most upset by

Answer 37

The admission of California as a free state

Question 38

In the 1840s, the westward expansion of the United States

Answer 38

Included the 2000-mile-long Oregon trail to the Pacific Coast

Question 39

Who of the following did earn an impressive military reputation in the War with Mexico

Answer 39

Winfield Scott, Jefferson Davis, Zachary Taylor, and Stephen Kearney

Question 40

Tow Years Before the Mast, which helped to encourage westward expansion, was written by

Answer 40

Richard Henry Dana

Question 41

Which of the following was not involved in supporting the Ostend Manifesto

Answer 41

The U.S. minister to Cuba

Question 42

Henry Clay's position on the annexation of Texas in the campaign of 1844 is best described by which of the following statements?

Answer 42

Texas should be annexed if it could be accomplished without starting a war with Mexico

Question 43

Relations between the Mormon settlement in Utah and the U.S. government became strained, especially when

Answer 43

The settlement authorized polygamy

Question 44

On the issue of slavery in the territories, John C. Calhoun asserted that

Answer 44

The constitution protected the right of citizens to move from place to place and to take their property with them

Question 45

In response to the Whig Party nomination of Zachary Taylor in 1848, many "conservative Whigs" fled the party, joined with antislavery Democrats, and formed the

Answer 45

Free Soil Party

Question 46

Most Hispanics in the West lived in

Answer 46

Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico

Question 47

Stephan Kearney's campaign to occupy Santa Fe was long and bloody

Answer 47

False

Question 48

William Henry Harrison delivered the shortest inaugural address in US history

Answer 48

False

Question 49

"Mr. Polk's War" refers to the war between Great Britain and the USA over Oregon

Answer 49

False

Question 50

Most Whigs supported the war with Mexico

Answer 50

False

Question 51

Henry Clay remained steadfastly opposed to the annexation of Texas throughout the presidential campaign of 1844

Answer 51

False

Question 52

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo settled the question of slavery in the new territories acquired by the United States

Answer 52

False

Question 53

Southern Democrats where unhappy about the nomination of Franklin Pierce as their party's presidential candidate in 1852

Answer 53

False

Question 54

Democrats dropped the idea of annexing Cuba after the Ostend Manifesto

Answer 54

False

Question 55

President William H. Harrison caught pneumonia on his Inauguration Day and died a month later

Answer 55

True

Question 56

The Liberty Party supported the Wilmot Proviso

Answer 56

True