Apush Chapter 13 Example Questions – Flashcards
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Lakota Sioux
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Which plains tribe came to dominate the northern Great Plains by the 1830s?
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Nebraska Territory
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Which of the following areas was left unorganized under the Compromise of 1850?
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write that increased northern sentiment against slavery?
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Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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Where was the federal arsenal that abolitionist John Brown attacked in 1859?
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Thomas Larkin
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Who was the American merchant who lived in California under the Mexican regime in the early 1820s?
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Slavery should be limited to its current boundaries and eventually abolished.
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What position did Whig senators Salmon P. Chase and William Seward take on the question of the admission of California?
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It highlighted the cruelty of slavery with heartrending power.
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Why was Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin so successful with readers?
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When the Democratic Party split over the Lecompton constitution in Kansas
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When did the Republican Party gain support in the North and Midwest?
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The phrase embodied the dreams of American expansionists.
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What connection did John L. O'Sullivan's term "manifest destiny" have to American expansion of the mid-nineteenth century?
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The Missouri Compromise
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In the Dred Scott decision, Chief Justice Taney ruled that which of the following was unconstitutional?
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Henry Clay
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Who was Abraham Lincoln's political role model?
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They assimilated into Mexican culture.
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How did Americans settling in California in the 1820s and 1830s differ from American settlers in Texas?
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Payment to Mexico of $15 million from the United States in return for vast tracts of land
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What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo stipulate?
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Violence
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What did the events in Kansas suggest would be the result of the popular sovereignty policy?
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Slavery
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John Brown intended to end which institution by his raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859?
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Sioux Indians and other plains tribes began to trade buffalo hides with European fur traders.
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Why did the buffalo herds of the northern plains begin to shrink in the 1830s?
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John C. Frémont
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Whom did President James K. Polk dispatch to California in 1845 to lead a heavily armed "exploring" party?
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court declared that the Fugitive Slave Act violated the rights of Wisconsin's citizens.
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What was the ruling in the Ableman v. Booth court case?
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40 percent
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In the election of 1860, what proportion of the popular vote did Abraham Lincoln win?
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Manifest Destiny
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What name is given the belief in a god-given American cultural and racial superiority that lay behind the desire to make the entire continent part of American democracy?
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Mexico City
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General Winfield Scott led American forces in an invasion of Mexico in 1847 and marched 260 miles to capture what site?
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John Brown
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What abolitionist, inflamed by the sack of the free-soil town of Lawrence, Kansas, led the vigilantes who took revenge on proslavery settlers in the "Pottawatomie massacre"?
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He was a Republican and former Whig who supported a gradualist view on abolition.
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What statement describes Abraham Lincoln's politics in 1854?
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By running as a Democrat in favor of acquiring both Oregon and Texas
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How did President John Tyler hope to secure his reelection in 1844?
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White men
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In 1849, what group made up most of the migrants who came to California by land and sea to mine for gold?
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The Ostend Manifesto
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What was the name of the written statement, issued by American diplomats in Europe in 1854, that justified the U.S. seizure of Cuba?
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Both the war and the Wilmot Proviso
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What positions did Abraham Lincoln support on the Mexican War while serving one term in Congress?
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Reports of potential harbors and fertile soil in Oregon
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What was the cause of "Oregon fever"?
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It linked the resolution of the sectional conflict to republican ideology.
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Why did the idea of popular sovereignty on the slavery question appeal to so many Americans in 1850?
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The Wilmot Proviso
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Which proposal was intended to prohibit slavery in any territories acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War?
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Puget Sound
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In the 1840s, the U.S. Navy published a glowing report about the harbors in what area?
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Its votes decided the election.
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Why was the Liberty Party important in the 1844 presidential election?
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The vote was divided along strictly sectional lines.
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What statement describes the outcome of the election of 1860?
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The terms of the Fugitive Slave Act
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Which part of the Compromise of 1850 was the most controversial after passage?
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He feared that such an annexation would mean the addition of racially inferior people.
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Why did John C. Calhoun, secretary of war under President James K. Polk, oppose the annexation of large swaths of Mexican territory south of the Rio Grande?
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He was a war hero.
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Why did the Whigs select Zachary Taylor as their candidate for the presidency in 1848?
