US History: Chapters 13 and 14 – Flashcards
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What practice did settlers bring to Texas that was illegal under Mexican law?
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slavery
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The Mexican army annihilated defenders at
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the Alamo and Goliad
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The Battle of San Jacinto
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established the independence of Texas
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The cornerstone of President Polk's foreign policy was
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the acquisition of California
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During the Mexican-American War, the most adamant expansionists called for the American takeover of
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Mexico
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Manifest Destiny was used to justify
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the acquisition of foreign territories in the late 1890s
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Which of the following was NOT one of the proposed solutions to slavery in the territories that dominated the debate from the late 1840s until 1861? -extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific -gradually legislating an end to slavery -permanent protection of the right to own slaves -popular sovereignty
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-extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific
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The Wilmot Proviso proposed that
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slavery should be ended by the turn of the century
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Proponents of popular sovereignty believed that
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residents of a territory should decide the issue of slavery
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the greatest significance of California's desire to enter the Union was
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the concern of Southerners that it would upset the balance of free and slave states
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Pro-slavery southerners became concerened
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when California and New Mexico wished to be admitted as free states
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The Compromise of 1850 established all of the following statues EXCEPT -popular sovereignty in Utah -the Fugitive Slave Act -admission of New Mexico as a slave state admission of California as a free state
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admission of New Mexico as a slave state
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Under the Compromise of 1850, this territory would be able to chose whether to be a free or a slave state
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Utah Territory
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Effects of the Compromise of 1850 included
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sectional dissatisfaction by bother sides
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What effect did the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin have on many northern white people
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It moved them to active participation in the debate and the end of slavery
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All of the following statements about Uncle Tom's Cabin are true EXCEPT: -northern blacks embraced the work as beneficial to aiding the plight of black -all of the novel's antagonists were white southerners who personified evil -by the time of the Civil War, it had sold more copies than any work of American fiction ever -it emphasized christian values as being opposed to the institution of slavery
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all of the novel's antagonist were white southerners who personified evil
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Stephen Douglas likely wanted a transcontinental railroad for all of the following reason EXCEPT: -it would facilitate the spread of democracy -he felt it would help tie the nation together -he stood to profit personally from its completion -he was the majority owner of the Union Pacific railroad
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he was the majority owner of the Union Pacifici railroad
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Stephen Douglas supported all of the following ideas except: -the Kansas-Nebraska Act -popular sovereignty -expansion of the nation's rail system -immediatism
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immediatism
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Northerners of all parties were outraged by the Kansas-Nebraska Act because it
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was viewed as a plot to extend slavery above the Missouri Compromise line
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Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act included
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a bloody civil conflict between proslavery and antislavery forces in Kansas
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Anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic sentiment gave rise to the
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Know-nothing party
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In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that
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blacks were not citizens of the US
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In the Dred Scott decision, Roger Taney argued that
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slavery could not be banned in any territory
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In an intriguing race for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, Abe Lincoln was opposed by
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Stephen A. Douglas
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In the 1855 senatorial campaign in Illinois
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Lincoln gained national recognition
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Compared to the North in 1860, the South had
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more people employed in agricultre
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John Brown hoped that his raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia would
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start a slave rebellion in the state of Virgian
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The Republicans became the clear favorite in the presidential election of 1860 when
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the Democratic Party split into sectional factions
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Abraham Lincoln earned the Republican nomination for president by upsetting
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William Seward
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The election of 1860 revealed that
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Americans voted very strongly along sectional lines
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In the 1860 election, who received the second highest popular vote, yet the lowest number of electoral votes
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John Bell
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Within 3 months after the election of 1860
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The South had attacked For Sumter and Washington D.C.
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The first state to choose sucession was
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South Carolina
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In the last days of his presidency, James Buchanan was
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ineffective and powerless
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The Confedereacy fired shotes at fort Sumter when Jefferson Davis discovered that
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President Lincoln asked militias of the upper South to put down the rebellion
