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Political party that fell
apart and disappeared
after losing the election
of 1852, mostly due to
divisions over slavery.
Two-thousand-mile-long
path along which thousands
of Americans journeyed to
the Willamette Valley in the
1840s.
Illinois politician
who reignited
sectional conflict in
1854.
Most of the early abolitionists were motivated
by
A) Anger at the negative economic impact of
slavery on poorer whites
B) A belief that slavery violated the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution
C) A philosophical commitment to racial
equality
D) Religious feeling against the sin of slavery
According to the
United States, the
southern boundary
of Texas.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
powerful 1852 novel that
focused on slavery’s cruel
effects in separating black
family members from one
another.
The British finally agreed to concede to the United States
the disputed Oregon territory between the Columbia
River and the forty-ninth parallel because
a) They did not really want to fight a war over territory
that American settlers might overrun
b) They recognized that the Lewis and Clark expedition
had established America’s prior claim to the territory
c) The Americans had concentrated superior military and
naval forces in the region
d) The Hudson Bay Company no longer considered the
area economically valuable
The most significant effect of the Fugitive Slave Law,
passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, was
a) An end to slave escapes and the Underground
Railroad
b) The extension of the Underground Railroad into
Canada
c) A sharp rise in northern antislavery feeling
d) A growing determination by radical abolitionists
to foment violent slave rebellions
Under the terms of the Compromise of 1850
a) California was admitted to the Union as a free state,
and the issue of slavery in Utah and New Mexico
territories would be left up to popular sovereignty
b) California was admitted as a free state, and Utah and
New Mexico as slave states
c) California, Utah, and New Mexico were kept as
territories but with slavery prohibited
d) New Mexico and Texas were admitted as slave states
and Utah and California as free states
Treaty ending the
Mexican-American War
and granting vast
territories to the United
States.
Frederick Douglass and some other black and
white abolitionists sought to end slavery by
A) Encouraging slave rebellions in the South
B) Calling on the North to secede from the
Union and invade the South
C) Getting northern churches to condemn the
sin of slavery
D) Promoting antislavery political movements
like the Free Soil and Republican Parties
The fertile region of the Deep
South, stretching across
Alabama, Mississippi, and
Louisiana, where the largest
concentration of black slaves
worked on rich cotton
plantations.
Mexican military leader
who failed to stop a
humiliating American
invasion of his country.
Popular sovereignty was the idea that
a) The government of each new territory should be
elected by the people
b) The American public should have a popular vote
on whether to admit states with or without
slavery
c) the people of a territory should determine for
themselves whether or not to permit slavery
d) The United States should assume popular
control of the territory acquired from Mexico
Garrisonian abolitionist
organization, founded in
1833, that included the
eloquent Wendell Phillips
among its leaders.
The northern political leader who successfully
defended the Amistad slave rebels and
overturned the Gag Resolution in Congress was
A) Congressman and former president John
Quincy Adams
B) Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass
C) Senator Daniel Webster
D) Illinois state legislator and congressman
Abraham Lincoln
Northern antislavery
politicians, like Abraham
Lincoln, who rejected
immediate abolitionism,
but fought to prohibit the
expansion of slavery in
the western territories.
New York free black
woman who fought
for emancipation
and women’s rights.
The Gadsden Purchase was fundamentally designed
to
A) Enable the United States to guarantee control of
California
B) Permit the construction of a transcontinental
railroad along a southern route
C) Serve the political interests of Senator Stephen A.
Douglas
D) Divert attention from the Pierce administration’s
secret plan to seize Cuba
Even though they owned no slaves, most
southern whites strongly supported the slave
system because they
A) Accepted the idea that slavery was approved
in the Bible
B) Enjoyed the economic benefits of slavery
C) Felt racially superior to blacks and hoped to
be able to buy slaves
D) Disliked the northern abolitionists
Manifest Destiny represented the widespread
nineteenth-century American belief that
A)
Americans were destined to uphold
democracy and freedom
B)
Mexico was destined to be acquired by the
United States
C)
The American Indians were doomed to
disappear as white settlement advanced
D)
God had destined the United States to expand
across the whole North American Continent.
Visionary black
preacher whose bloody
slave rebellion in 1831
tightened the reins of
slavery in the South.
The provision of the
Compromise of 1850 that
comforted southern slavecatchers and aroused the
wrath of northern
abolitionists.
The major domestic consequence of the
Mexican War was
a) The decline of the Democratic party
b) A sharp revival in the issue of slavery
c) A significant increase in taxes to pay the
costs of the war
d) A large influx of Mexican immigrants
into the southwestern United States
The phrase “spot resolutions” refers to
a) President Polk’s message asking Congress to declare war on
Mexico on the spot
b) The amendment introduced after the Mexican-American
War declaring that not one spot of land could be opened to
slavery
c) Congressman Abraham Lincoln’s resolution demanding that
President Polk specify the exact spot, on American soil,
where American blood had supposedly been shed
d) The congressional act determining which spots of Mexican
land should be ceded to the United States
Rich Mexican province
that Polk was
determined to buy and
Mexico refused to sell.
Controversial amendment,
which passed the House but
not the Senate, stipulating
that slavery should be
forbidden in all territory
acquired from Mexico.
The proposed direct admission of California into the
Union was controversial because
a) The territory was in a condition of complete
lawlessness and anarchy
b) The Mexicans were threatening renewed warfare if
California joined the Union
c) California’s admission as a free state would destroy
the equal balance of slave and free states in the U.S.
Senate
d) Southern California and northern California did not
want to be part of the same state
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the MexicanAmerican War provided for
a) A return to the status quo that had existed before the
war
b) American acquisition of about half of Mexico and
payment of several million dollars in compensation
c) The acquisition of California and joint U.S.-Mexican
control of Arizona and New Mexico
d) American guarantees of fair treatment for Mexican
citizens annexed by the United States
Antislavery Whigs who
strongly opposed the
annexation of Texas as a
conspiracy by the slave
power.
Northerners especially resented Douglas’s KansasNebraska Act because it
a) Would encourage the building of a transcontinental
railroad along the southern route
b) Repealed the Missouri Compromise prohibiting
slavery in northern territories
c) Would bring Kansas into the Union as a slave state
d) Would end the equal balance of free and slave states
in the Union
William Lloyd Garrison’s
fervent abolitionist
newspaper that
preached an immediate
end to slavery.
A new political party
organized as a protest
against the KansasNebraska Act.
South Carolina Senator
who fiercely defended
southern rights and
opposed compromise
with the North.
By 1840, cotton had become central to the whole
American economy because
A)The United States was still largely an agricultural
nation
B)Cotton exports provided much of the capital
(money) that fueled American economic growth
C)Western expansion depended on continually
increasing the acreage devoted to cotton
D)Northern agricultural products like wheat and
corn could not be grown for a profit
The line across the
southern boundary of
Pennsylvania that formed
the boundary between
free states and slave
states in the east.
What Came First?
• Correct answer = +1
• Incorrect answer = -1
• You MUST answer
A) A treaty adding vast territory to
the United States is hastily pushed
through the Senate.
B) A new invention increased the
efficiency of cotton production,
laying the basis for the vast Cotton
Kingdom.
A) United States ends a long
courtship by incorporating an
independent republic that had
once been part of Mexico.
B) The Pierce administration acquires
a small Mexican territory to
encourage a southern route for
the transcontinental railroad.
A) A new invention increased the
efficiency of cotton production,
laying the basis for the vast Cotton
Kingdom
B) An ambitious expansionist
candidate promises the acquisition
of California and becomes
president.
A) American and Mexican troops
clash in disputed border territory,
leading to a controversial
declaration of war.
B) A radical abolitionist newspaper
and a slave rebellion spread fear
through the South.
A) A series of delicate agreements
between the North and South
temporarily smooths over the
slavery conflict.
B) The last slaves to be legally
imported from Africa enter the
United States
A) The Pierce administration acquires a
small Mexican territory to encourage
a southern route for the
transcontinental railroad.
B) Stephen A. Douglas’s scheme to build
a transcontinental railroad leads to
repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
which reopens the slavery
controversy and spurs the formation
of a new party.
A) The first American president to die
in office is succeeded by his
controversial vice president
B) A series of delicate agreements
between the North and South
temporarily smooths over the
slavery conflict
A) A spectacular growth of
settlement in the far West creates
demand for admission of a new
free state and agitates the slavery
controversy.
B) United States ends a long
courtship by incorporating an
independent republic that had
once been part of Mexico.
A) Stephen A. Douglas’s scheme to
build a transcontinental railroad
leads to the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, which reopens the
slavery controversy and spurs the
formation of a new party
B) The first American president to die
in office is succeeded by his
controversial vice president.
A) A radical abolitionist newspaper
and a slave rebellion spread fear
throughout the South.
B) American and Mexican troops
clash in disputed border territory,
leading to a controversial
declaration of war.
A) A treaty adding vast territory to
the United States is hastily pushed
through the Senate.
B) The last slaves to be legally
imported from Africa enter the
United States
A) An ambitious expansionist
candidate promises the acquisition
of California and becomes
president.
B) The Pierce administration acquires
a small Mexican territory to
encourage a southern route for
the transcontinental railroad.