Within the ideology of Manifest Destiny were all the following beliefs EXCEPT that
United States expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada.
In the 1840s, critics of territorial expansion by the United States
warned it would increase the controversy over slavery.
President James K. Polk
helped his candidacy for office by expressing a desire to re-annex Texas.
In the 1820s, most of the settlers from the United States who migrated to Texas were
white southerners and their slaves.
In the 1820s and 1830s, the government of Mexico
moved from favoring to opposing American immigration into Texas.
In 1836, an attack by Mexican forces on the Alamo mission
saw the death of Davy Crockett.
In 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto
led to independence for Texas.
In 1836, Texas did not immediately join the United States in part because
President Andrew Jackson thought that action would add to sectional tensions.
In the mid-1840s, the Oregon country in the Pacific Northwest
included an Indian population that had been devastated by disease.
Before the early 1850s, Americans who traveled west on the overland trails were generally
relatively young people who traveled in family groups.
Which of the following towns served as a major departure point for migrants traveling west on the overland trails?
Independence, Missouri
Between 1840 and 1860, most migrants traveling west on the overland trails
found the journey to be a very collective experience.
The presidential election of 1844
was won by a Democrat.
In 1844, President James K. Polk supported the acquisition of
Oregon and Texas.
As president, James K. Polk
none
In 1845, the immediate cause of war with Mexico was
a dispute over territory.
The Mexican War resulted in large part from
the United States provoking Mexico to fight.
During the Mexican War,
American settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the United States navy.
The key to victory for the United States in the Mexican War was
Winfield Scott's seizure of Mexico City.
Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States
agreed to pay millions to Mexico.
When President Polk received the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, he
angrily claimed that Trist had violated his instructions.
In the 1840s, regional critics of President James K. Polk claimed his policies favored the
South.
The Wilmot Proviso
prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.
When it came to the issue of the extension of slavery, President James K. Polk favored
an extension of the Missouri Compromise.
In the 1848 elections, the new party that emerged as a political force was the
Free-Soil Party.
In the California gold rush,
upwards of ninety-five percent of the "Forty-niners" were men.
The Chinese who came to California during the gold rush
had aspirations similar to those of American participants.
As a result of the gold rush, by 1850,
California had a very diverse population.
In 1849, President Zachary Taylor favored admitting California
as a free state.
The admission of California into the United States was a divisive national issue because
Cali's entry would upset the nation's balance of free and slave states
During the debate on the Compromise of 1850,
President Zachary Taylor suddenly died.
The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California
along with a strengthened Fugitive Slave Act.
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act
intensified the debate over slavery.
In the election of 1852,
the Free-Soil Party gained strength.
In the 1850s, in an effort to undercut the Fugitive Slave Act, some northern states
passed laws preventing the deportation of fugitive slaves.
In the 1850s, the "Young America" movement
supported the expansion of American democracy throughout the world.
The 1854 Ostend Manifesto
was part of an attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba.
In the 1850s, the issue of slavery complicated the proposal to build a transcontinental railroad, as
non-slaveowning northerners and slaveowning southerners could not agree on a route.
The 1853 Gadsden Purchase
advanced the cause of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad.
Which of the following statements regarding the Kansas-Nebraska Act is FALSE?
It was sponsored by Henry Clay.
The political party that came into being largely in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the
Republican Party.
In the mid-1850s, the struggle over Kansas saw
John Brown murder several pro-slavery settlers.
The 1856 beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate
was a vicious assault carried out by a member of the House of Representatives.
The ideology of Free-Soil included
opposition to the expansion of slavery.
Southern defenders of slavery made all the following arguments EXCEPT that
black codes protected slaves from abuse.
In The Pro-Slavery Argument (1837), John C. Calhoun stated that slavery was
a "positive good.
The first Republican candidate for president was
John C. Fr�mont.
The election of 1856 saw
former president Millard Fillmore in the running.
The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) held that
the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
James Buchanan
pressured Congress to admit Kansas under the Lecompton constitution.
The 1857 Lecompton (Kansas) constitution was
twice rejected by a majority of Kansas voters.
Kansas entered the United States
after several southern states had left the Union.
In the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates,
Lincoln argued slavery was a threat to the growth of white free labor.
During the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates, it became clear that Lincoln
believed slavery was morally wrong, but was not an abolitionist.
As a result of his 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln
gained many new supporters outside of Illinois.
Following John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, many southerners were convinced that
Brown had been given the support of the Republican Party.
In the 1860 elections, the political party most deeply divided over slavery was the
Democratic Party.
In the election of 1860,
Abraham Lincoln was elected with much less than half of the popular vote.