Gml 13

Front 1

“David Wilmot proposed a resolution in Congress prohibiting slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico.” Define “prohibiting”:

Back 1

forbidding

Front 2

From 1840 to 1860, immigration:

Back 2

resulted in four million new arrivals into the United States.

Front 3

According to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act:

Back 3

the question of whether slavery would be allowed in these territories would be decided by local (white) settlers.

Front 4

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Back 4

outbreak of Mexican War; Compromise of 1850; “Bleeding Kansas”

Front 5

The expansionist spirit of the early nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean was called:

Back 5

manifest destiny.

Front 6

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854:

Back 6

established the principal of popular sovereignty whereby the status of slavery would be determined.

Front 7

In the 1850s, two great areas of industrial production had arisen in consequence of the market revolution. These were:

Back 7

the Atlantic Coast from Baltimore to Boston, and the cities around the Great Lakes.

Front 8

In the 1844 presidential election:

Back 8

James K. Polk, a slaveholder, was the Democratic Party’s nominee.

Front 9

Which of the following was not a significant feature of Gold Rush California?

Back 9

In the absence of a stable legal system, local settlers frequently took the law into their own hands.

Front 10

Which of the following pieces of the statue atop the Capitol Building in Washington, D. C. was part of a controversy concerning slavery?

Back 10

her cap

Front 11

Which was not part of Lincoln’s appeal to northern voters in the 1860 election?

Back 11

as an earlier candidate of the Know-Nothing Party he appealed to immigrant voters

Front 12

Henry Clay lost the 1844 election because:

Back 12

James G. Birney, running on the Liberty Party ticket, received 16,000 votes in New York.

Front 13

Which of the following was not a conviction embraced by the newly formed Republican party of the mid-1850s?

Back 13

A system of slavery was tolerable, so long as it remained confined to the South and West.

Front 14

In the term “popular sovereignty,” define “sovereignty”:

Back 14

power in decision-making

Front 15

In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the word “Dred” was used because:

Back 15

it was the plaintiffs’ first name.

Front 16

In the Compromise of 1850:

Back 16

the slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.

Front 17

In the mid-1850s the Republican Party sought:

Back 17

to prevent the spread of slavery.

Front 18

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848:

Back 18

ended the Mexican War.

Front 19

When Texas declared itself independent of Mexico, its new constitution:

Back 19

protected slavery even though Mexico had earlier abolished slavery.

Front 20

Which of the following was not a significant theme of public protest against America’s war on Mexico?

Back 20

The Mexican military was likely to overpower American forces; it was foolhardy to challenge Mexico.

Front 21

In the presidential election of 1848:

Back 21

Lewis Cass of Michigan won the election running on the Democratic Party ticket.

Front 22

Define “secede”:

Back 22

to withdraw formally from membership in

Front 23

Which of the following was not a feature of the rise of southern nationalism during the late 1850s?

Back 23

a high-level conspiracy to take over the federal government through a military coup

Front 24

When California became a state in 1850:

Back 24

it entered the Union as a free state.

Front 25

Which of the following territories did not come to the United States as a result of its victory in the Mexican War?

Back 25

present-day Arizona

Front 26

The Free Soil Party’s platform called for:

Back 26

the government to bar slavery from the western territories and provide land free in the territories to people who wanted to homestead there.

Front 27

The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of:

Back 27

gold

Front 28

The Republican Party, founded in 1854:

Back 28

was a coalition of antislavery Democrats, northern Whigs, Know-Nothings, and Free Soilers.

Front 29

One of the leading figures of the Democratic party in the 1850s was:

Back 29

Stephen Douglas.

Front 30

Which was not part of the Irish experience on their arrival in the United States in the late 1840s and 1850s?

Back 30

Soon after their arrival most Irish became strong proponents of the Republican Party.

Front 31

Which was not true of the Alamo?

Back 31

The Alamo was a U.S. fortress (or mission compound) on U.S. soil.