Expanding Union

Question 1

1. Northerners approved all of the provi­sions of the Compromise of 1850 except
   A. the section of the document concerning slavery in California
   B. the section of the document concerning the Fugitive Slave Law
   C. the section of the treaty on slave trading in Washington, DC
   D. the section of the document concerning slavery in New Mexico
   E. the section of the document concerning slavery in Utah

Answer 1

(Correct Answer: B. In the Compromise of 1850, provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law were made tougher. California was to enter the Union as a free state, the residents of New Mexico and Utah could decide if they wanted to be slave or free, and slave trading was outlawed in Washington, DC.)

Question 2

2. During the presidential election of 1860
   A. the Democratic party had split and was running two candidates
   B. the new president was someone that almost no one in the South had voted for support for the Constitutional Union party demonstrated that ex-Whigs
   D. were not satisfied with either the Democratic or the Republican party
   D. the issue of the future of slavery in the territories was a major issue
   E. all of the above

Answer 2

(Correct Answer: E. All of the factors mentioned concerning the 1860 election are true.)

Question 3

3. According to the concept of manifest destiny
   A. it was primarily economic factors that caused Americans to expand westward
   B. it was primarily political factors that caused Americans to expand westward
   C. the desires of the American military did much to force westward expansion
   D. westward expansion was the fulfillment of America’s destiny
   E. overpopulation on the eastern seaboard forced westward expansion

Answer 3

(Correct Answer: D. The concept of manifest destiny stated that social, political, and social factors all came together to encourage west­ern expansion, and that western expansion was actually “God’s plan” for America.)

Question 4

4. American settlers first came to Mexico in the early 1830s
   A. to avenge the attack on the Alamo
   B. for religious reasons; most that came were devout Catholics
   C. for political reasons; most that came were disenchanted with American policy toward Native Americans
   D. out of personal loyalty to Davey Crockett or Jim Bowie
   E. because they could receive a large plot of land for next to nothing

Answer 4

(Correct Answer: E. Settlers who came and became Mexican citizens and Catholics could receive very large plots of land for almost nothing. The incident at the Alamo did not occur until 1836.)

Question 5

5. The political party of the era that supported nativist policies was the 
A. Liberty party 
B. Free-Soil party 
C. Democratic party 
D. Know-Nothing party 
E. Whig party

Answer 5

(Correct Answer: D. The Know-Nothing party, a popular party in the early 1850s, supported a number of anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic policies.)