history week 13 – Flashcards

During the war with Mexico, Congressman David Wilmot, a Pennsylvania Democrat, introduced an amamendment, known as the Wilmot Proviso, which

Unlike other politicians, President John Tyler eagerly pushed for the annexation of Texas to the Union believing

Why did John Brown attack the armory at Harpers Ferry?

Some Americans believed James K. Polk provoked war with Mexico when he sent a small military force into

Which of the following was not a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

Regarding the Texan-Mexican dispute over the boundary of Texas,

"Bleeding Kansas," the conflict between anti-slavery(Free-Soil) advocates and pro-slavery supporters in the territory, witnessed

Which of the following was a focus of the new Republican Party?

The relative calm produced following passage of the Compromise of 1850 was broken by the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) which

During the presidential campaign of 1848, candidate Lewis Cass of Michigan offered a simple solution to the debate over the status of slavery in the territories. He suggested the policy of popular sovereignty with the simple premise that

Which of the following were provisions of the Compromise of 1850?

In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that

Passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

Following the _______________ Treaty (1819) defining the U.S.-Mexico boundary, Spain began actively encouraging Americans to settle their northern province.

As a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) ending the Mexican-American War, Mexico ceded to the United States

During the election of 1848 Democratic presidential candidate Lewis Cass advocated the practice of allowing residents of territories to decide whether their land should be slave or free called

The question surrounding the annexation of Texas, one of the most controversial issues in American politics in the late 1830s and early 1840s,

Stephen Douglas managed to drive the Compromise of 1850 through Congress by

After the election of 1848 the actions of newly elected President Zachary Taylor demonstrated his top priority was

Border ruffians helped to

James Tallmadge attempted to amend the Missouri statehood bill, then before the House of Representatives, demanding that

Reasons the United States was reluctant to annex Texas included