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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.