Unit 9, Retake – Flashcards
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What did 19th century American expanionists mean by the term Manifest Destiny?
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C : Citizens of the US had a God given right to conquer the land to the Pacific Ocean
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Which of the following made the Oregon Territory so appealing to Americans in the mid 1800s?
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B: Mild Climate and Rich Soil
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Which of the following statements characterizes American settlement in California before the mid- 1840s
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a: American settlement in California was fairly sparse in this period
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How did Oregon fever attack national politics in the US in 1844?
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d: The possibility of expansion became a major issue in the presidential election
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The popular 1844 phrase "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!" served as
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a: A push for American control of the entire Oregon territory
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The 1845 annexation of Texas provoked
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B: The Mexican War
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What action did President Polk take in 1845 as part of his California strategy?
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a: Polk sent orders to the US Navy in the Pacific to seize San Fran Bay and other California ports in the event of war with Mexico
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Which of the following statements describes the Slidell mission to Mexico in December 1845
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It failed because Mexico had suspended diplomatic relations with the US and refused to even side with Slidell
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In 1845, Texans claimed that their boundary extended
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c: to the Rio Grande on the south and west
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James K. Polk;s declaration that American blood has been shed "upon American soil" was his call for
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a: War with Mexico
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What did the Wilmot Proviso, introduced in Congress in 1864, propose to do?
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b: Prohibit slavery in any territory the US acquired from Mexico
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Which of the following statements describes the 1848 Treaty of Guadalope Hidalgo
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D: The treaty purchased more than one- third of Mexico's territory for a mere 15 million dollars
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Which of the following policies was implemented as part of the Compromise of 1850
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b: Passage of a new Fugitive Slave Act
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Popular sovereignty solved which of the following issues temporarily?
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c: Whether Congress had the authority to legislate slavery in the territories
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Which of the following describes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
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d: It denied alleged runaways as 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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A: It sparked an unprecedented discussion about race and slavery in the US and abroad
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The northern states responded to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act by sponsoring
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d: Personal liberty laws
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in 1854, why did Senator Stephen A Douglass introduce a bill to extinuish Native American rights in the Great Plains and organize the northern segment of the Louisiana Purchase into a large territory called Nebraska
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d: He wanted to build a transcontinental railroad from Chicago to Northern California
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The 1854 Kansas- Nebraska Act led to which of the following outcomes?
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d: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was repealed
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Which of the following statements describes the American Party, or Know Nothings, that emerged in the North in the 1850s
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a: The American Party originated in anti-immigrant ad anti-Catholic societies of the 1840s
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Which of the following events took place in Kansas during the summer of 1856?
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d: John Brown and his followers murdered and mutilated five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie
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From 1854 to 1856, which of the following was the fundamental principle of all Republicans agreed on?
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A: An absolute opposition to the expansion of slavery into any new territories
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Which of the following scenarios occurred during the 1856 presidential election?
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a: James Buchanan was elected by the Democratic party for his apparent neutrality and low profile
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Which of the following statements describes President Buchanan's handling of the Kansas Issue?
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B: He tried but failed to have Kansas admitted as a slave state and fractured the Democratic Party
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The creation of the Republican Party, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the negotiation of the Missouri Compromise were all consequences of the
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c: Kansas Nebraska Act
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In an 1858 senate campaign speech, Abraham Lincoln
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c: Warned that the nation could not endure as a "house divided against itself" that is, half slave and half free
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In 1757, in his so-called Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglas
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D: Asserted that settlers could exclude slavery from a region by not adopting local legislation to protect it
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Why did the Republican Party nominate Abraham Lincoln for the presidency in 1860?
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D: His likable and strong national image would attract votes among farmers and workers
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Which of the following actions best supports Greenberg's assertions in this excerpt?
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B: The lack of recognition of the Tejanos following the annexation of Texas
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Which of the following was the most direct and historically significant result of the patterns Greenberg describes in the above excerpt
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C: The Mexican War
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The 2 excerpts are best understood in the context of the
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D: Assertion of the US power and expansionism in the Western Hemisphere
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The two excerpts quoted above would be most useful to historians analyzing
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C: The heated controversy generated by the acquisition of new territory in the West
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The sentiments expressed in the painting led most directly to
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C: Environmental transformation of the western region
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The ideas expressed in the painting above most directly reflects which of the following continuities in US history
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A: a sense of unique national mission and superior cultural identity
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a political party formed in 1851 that drew on anti- immigrant and anti-catholic movements of the 1840s. In 1854, the party gained control of state governments of Mass., and Penn
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AC: American Party
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Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents, including alleged fugitives, the right to a jury trial
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D: Personal- Liberty Laws
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The 1857 Supreme Court decision that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. The Court ruled against slave who brought lawsuit and who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and family free
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AE: Dred Scott vs. Sanford
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A controversial 1854 law dividing Indian Territory into 2 separate states, repealed Missouri Compromise and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty
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AB: Kansas Nebraska Act
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Democratic candidate Governor Polk's slogan in election of 1844 calling for American sovereignty over entire Oregon territory stretching from Cali to Russian occupied Alaska and presently shared with Britain
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A: Fifty four Forty or Fight
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The argument presented by Senator Stephen Douglass that a territory's residents could exclude slavery by not adopting laws to protect it
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BC: Freeport Doctrine
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The more than 80,000 settlers who arrived in Cali as part of gold rush
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B: Forty-niners
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Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve dispute over status of slavery in territories. Key elements include admission of Cali as free state and Fugitive Slave Act
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c: Compromise of 1850
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Term for struggle between pro-slavery and antislavery factions in this state following its organization as a territory in fall of 1854
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AD: Bleeding Kansas
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a small slice of land (now Arizona and New Mexico) purchased by Pres. Franklin Pierce in 1853 for purpose of building a rail line from new Orleans to Los Angeles
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e: Gadsen Purchase
