APUSH Chpt. 5 Quiz Qs – Flashcards
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What did nineteenth-century American expansionists mean by the term Manifest Destiny?
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The citizens of the United States had a God-given right to conquer the land to the Pacific Ocean.
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From 1818 until the early 1840s, the Oregon Territory was administered under which of the following arrangements?
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Great Britain and the United States controlled it jointly.
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The popular 1844 phrase "Fifty-four forty or fight!" served as
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a push for American control of the entire Oregon territory.
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What feature of the Lakota Sioux society protected it from the epidemics that decimated other Native American groups in the nineteenth century?
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Its small groups and nomadic lifestyle
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Which of the following statements characterizes American settlement in California before the mid-1840s?
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American settlement in California was fairly sparse in this period.
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The 1845 annexation of Texas provoked
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the Mexican War.
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Which action did President Polk take in 1845 as part of his California strategy?
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Polk sent orders to the U.S. Navy in the Pacific to seize San Francisco Bay and other California ports in the event of war with Mexico.
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What did the Wilmot Proviso, introduced in Congress in 1846, propose to do?
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Prohibit slavery in any territory the United States acquired from Mexico
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Americans who lined up behind the free-soil cause in the late 1840s
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declared that slavery threatened American republicanism by undermining family farms.This answer is correct.
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Which of the following policies was implemented as part of the Compromise of 1850?
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Passage of a new Fugitive Slave Act
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Which of the following statements describes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
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It denied alleged runaways a jury trial or the right to testify in their own defense.
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Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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It sparked an unprecedented discussion about race and slavery in the United States and abroad.
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In 1854, why did Senator Stephen A. Douglas introduce a bill to extinguish Native American rights in the Great Plains and organize the northern segment of the Louisiana Purchase into a large territory called Nebraska? Selected:
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He wanted to build a transcontinental railroad from Chicago to Northern California.
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The 1857 Dred Scott decision had which of the following consequences?
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The decision persuaded many Republicans that the Supreme Court and President Buchanan were part of the "slave power" conspiracy.
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The creation of the Republican Party, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the negation of the Missouri Compromise were all consequences of the
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Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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Abraham Lincoln belonged to which political party during his four terms in the Illinois state legislature? Selected:
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Whigs
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In an 1858 senate campaign speech, Abraham Lincoln Selected:
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warned that the nation could not endure as "a house divided against itself," that is, half slave and half free.
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Which of the following statements describes President Buchanan's handling of the Kansas issue?
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He tried but failed to have Kansas admitted as a slave state and fractured the Democratic Party.
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In 1858, in his so-called Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas Selected:
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Asserted that settlers could exclude slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation to protect it.
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Which of the following individuals expressed public support for John Brown's attempt to ignite a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1859?
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Thoreau
