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John Tyler joined the Whig party because he

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could not stomach the dictatorial tactics of Andrew Jackson

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The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president to

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attract the vote of the states' rightists

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After President Tyler's veto of a bill to establish a new Bank of the United States

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all of the above he was expelled from the Whig party, all but one member of his cabinet resigned, an attempt was made in the House of Representatives to impeach him, Tyler also vetoed a Whig-sponsored high-tariff bill

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The only member of President Tyler's Whig cabinet who did not resign in protest over his

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Daniel Webster

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During an 1837 Canadian insurrection against Britain,

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America was invaded by the British

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As a result of the Panic of 1837

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several states defaulted on their debts to Britain

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The British-American dispute over the border of Maine was solved

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by a compromise that gave each side some territory

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The Aroostook War was the result of

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a dispute over the northern boundary of Maine

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Some people in Britain hoped for a British alliance with Texas because

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Texas could become a location for the settlement of undesirable British emigrants

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One argument against annexing Texas to the U.S. was that the annexation

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might give more power to the supporters of slavery

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Texas was annexed to the U.S. as a result of

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President Tyler's desire to help his troubled administration

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Arrange in chronological order the U.S.' acquisition of (A) Oregon, (B) Texas, (C) California

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texas oregon california

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The primary group that was instrumental in strengthening and saving American claims to Oregon were

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American missionaries to the Indians

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Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the

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rich soil of the Willamette River Valley

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The area in dispute between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1845 lay between

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the Columbia River, the 49th parallel, and the Pacific Ocean

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In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called

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. Manifest Destiny

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The election of 1844 was notable because

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. it brought the slavery issue into politics

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The group most supportive of gaining control of all the Oregon Country was the

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. northern Democrats

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In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846, the northern boundary of the U.S. was established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of

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49 degrees

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One reason that the British government decided to compromise on the Oregon Country border was

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the fear of war with the United States

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In his quest for California, President Polk

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first advocated buying the area from Mexico

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In 1846 the U.S. went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except

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. the impulse to satisfy those asking for "spot" resolutions

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President Polk's claim that "American blood [had been shed] on the American soil" referred to news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near

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the rio grande

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During the Mexican War, the Polk administration was called upon several times to respond to "spot" resolutions indicating where American blood had been shed to provoke the war. The resolutions were frequently introduced by

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abraham lincoln

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One goal of Mexico in its 1846-1848 war with the U.S. was to

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free black slaves

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When the war with Mexico began, President Polk

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hoped to fight a limited war, ending with the conquest of california

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Match each American officer below with his theater of command in the Mexican War. A. Stephen W. Kearny 1. northern Mexico B. Zachary Taylor 2. California C. Winfield Scott 3. Santa Fe D. John C. Fremont 4. mexico city

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b. b. A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2 Stephen W. Kearny - Santa Fe; Zachary Taylor - northern Mexico; Winfield Scott - Mexico City; John C. Frémont - California

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The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ending the Mexican War included

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U.S. payment of $15 million for cession of northern Mexico

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Those people most opposed to President Polk's expansionist program were the

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antislavery forces

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The Wilmot Proviso

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symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories

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The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that

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. slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the U.S.

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The largest single addition to American territory was

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the mexican cession

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The first Old World Europeans to come to California were

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spanish

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The Spanish Franciscan missionaries treated the native inhabitants of California

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very harshly

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When the Mexican government secularized authority in California,

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californios eventually gained control of their land

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The Californio's political ascendancy in California ended

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as a result of the influx of Anglo golddiggers

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In order to maintain the two great political parties as vital bonds of national unity, early 19th century politicians

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avoided public discussion of slavery

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The U.S.' victory in the Mexican American War resulted in

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all of the above: renewed controversy over the issue of extending slavery into the territories, a possible split in the Whig and Democrat parties over slavery,the cession by Mexico of an enormous amount of land to the U.S, a rush of settlers to new American territory in California

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The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have

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prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War

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The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession A.threatened to split national politics along North-South lines

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threatened to split national politics along North-South lines

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In 1848, the Free Soil party platform advocated all of the following except

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Internal improvements

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According to the principle of 'popular sovereignty.' The question of slavery in the territories would be determined by

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the vote of the people in any given territory

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The public liked popular sovereignty because it

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fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination

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In the 1848 presidential election, the Democratic and Whig parties

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remained silent on the issue of slavery

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The key issue for the major parties in the 1848 presidential election was

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personalities

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The event that brought turmoil to the administration of Zachary Taylor was the

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discovery of gold in California

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The Free Soilers argued that slavery

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would cause more costly wage labor to wither away

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Of those people going to California during the gold rush

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a distressingly high proportion were lawless men

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The Free Soliers condemned slavery because

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it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise to self-employment

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By 1850, the South

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was relatively well off, politically and economically

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Harriet Tubman gained fame

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by helping slaves escape to Canada

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During the 1850s, slaves gained their freedom most frequently by

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self-purchase

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John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and slavery involved

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the election of two presidents, one from the North and one from the South

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Daniel Webster's famed Seventh of March speech in 1850 resulted in

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A shift toward compromise in the North

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In his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster

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called for a new, more stringent fugitive-slave law

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For his position in his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster was viciously condemned by

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abolitionists

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The Young Guard from the North

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were most interested in purging and purifying the Union

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In the debates of 1850, Senator William H. Seward, as a representative of the northern Young Guard, argued that

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Christian legislators must obey God's moral law

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During the debate of 1850, ___________________ argued that there was a "higher law" than the Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery form the territories.

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William H. Seward

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President Zachary Taylor unknowingly helped the cause of compromise in 1850 when he

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died suddenly and Millard Fillmore became president

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Southern delegates met at a convention in Nashville in the summer of 1850 to

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condemn the compromises being worked out in Congress

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In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was

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to be decided by popular sovereignty

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The most alarming aspect of the Compromise of 1850 to northerners was the decision concerning

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the new Fugitive Slave Law

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The Fugitive Slave Law included all of the flowing provisions except

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the requirement that fugitive slaves be returned from Canada

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Many northern states passed 'personal liberty' laws in response to the Compromise of 1850's provision regarding

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runaway slaves

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In light of future evidence, it seems apparent that in the Compromise of 1850 the South made a tactical blunder by

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demanding a strong fugitive-slave law

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The fatal split in the Whig party in 1852 occurred over

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slavery

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The election of 1852 was significant because it

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marked the end of the Whig party

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For a short time in the 1850s, an American seized control of

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Nicaragua

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The man who opened Japan to the U.S. was

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Matthew Perry

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The prime objective of Manifest Destiny in the 1850s was

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Cuba

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The U.S.' scheme to gain control of Cuba was stopped when

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northern free-soilers fiercely protested the effort

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The most brazen scheme for territorial expansion in the 1850s was expressed in the

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Ostend Manifesto

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Most American leaders believed that the only way to keep the new Pacific Coast territories from breaking away form U.S. control was

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to construct a transcontinental railroad

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A southern route for the transcontinental railroad seemed the best because

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the railroad would be easier to build in this area

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Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory be decided by

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popular sovereignty

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Stephen A. Douglas's plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of the

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Missouri Compromise

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One of Stephen Douglas's mistakes in proposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act was

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underestimating the depth of northern opposition to the spread of slavery

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