APUSH Chapter 13 and Lectures 34-36 Quiz

1.

1 point

The Wilmot Proviso of 1846

prohibited the extension of slavery into any western territory.

prohibited slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico.

prohibited slavery in any part of the Oregon Territory acquired from Great Britain.

permitted slavery to be established in any new state or territory where the voters wished to allow it.

2.

1 point

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

prohibited slavery in all territories ceded by Mexico, including Texas.

was rejected by the U.S. Senate.

purchased more than one-third of Mexico's territory for $15 million.

ceded Alta, California; New Mexico; and Texas north of the Nueces River to the United States, in addition to requiring Mexico to pay reparations of more than $50 million.

3.

1 point

Legal dispossession of the Indians triggered:

the Black Hawk War in Illinois.

the transfer of the Cherokees.

the death of thousands of Indian lives.

All of the above

4.

1 point

Under land grants issued by the Mexican government, a large American settlement in Texas was established by

Sam Houston.

Antonio López de Santa Anna.

Jim Bowie.

Stephen F. Austin.

5.

1 point

Henry Clay's compromise included eight resolutions that boiled down to

allowing Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide the issue of slavery themselves.

supporting and improving the ailing John C. Calhoun's Cession plan.

allowing the US Senate to decide all issues regarding slavery and slave trade north of the 36-30 line.

Congress admitting California as a free state, New Mexico and Deseret deciding for themselves the issue of slavery, and a updated fugitive slave law, and the idea that Congress had no authority to regulate the slave trade.

6.

1 point

Zachary Taylor's plan for Cession included

admitting California and New Mexico as slave states

admitting California and New Mexico as free states

admitting California as a slave state and New Mexico as a free state

admitting California as a free state and New Mexico as a slave state

7.

1 point

Expansionism began to have real political consequences. It created friction with Great Britain over boundaries with Canada. The primary issue focused on

the Oregon border

the Florida border

the Ontario border

the Washington border

8.

1 point

The Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo was followed in 1853 by an additional purchase of land along the Gila River, which was known as

the Gadsden Purchase.

Polk's Folly.

the Guadelupe-Hidalgo addendum.

the Gila River Purchase

9.

1 point

The Compromise of 1820 that was crafted by Henry Clay

allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and divide the Louisiana Purchase at the 36-30 line as a demarcation between future free/slave states.

allowed Alabama and Texas to enter the Union as slave states, and Maine and California to enter as free states.

allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and promised that slavery would be allowed in all states carved from Spanish territories.

failed to pass the senate, and was eventually killed by the Whigs.

10.

1 point

In Texas, American citizens colonized the Mexican state, overwhelmed the local population, destabilized the indigenous government, with the intention of declaring independence and presenting additional territory to the United States. This tactic was called:

Filibustering

Manifest Destiny

Creating Banana Republics

Democracy in Action

11.

1 point

The Tallmadge Amendment of 1819 that passed the House of Representatives

was co-sponsored by Congressman Cox, the only Southern senator to endorse the plan.

barred further importation of slavery into the Louisiana Territory, and the emancipation of slaves of 25 years of age or older.

barred women from voting in federal elections in all western territories.

was also passed by the Senate, but vetoed by the President.

12.

1 point

Why did the United States decline to annex Texas from 1836 to 1837?

Presidents Jackson and Van Buren knew that annexing Texas as a slave state would divide the Democratic Party and the American public and would almost certainly lead to war with Mexico.

In a plebiscite, Texans rejected annexation by the United States.

Presidents Jackson and Van Buren tried to persuade Congress to annex Texas, but the Whig-dominated Senate rejected the treaty of annexation.

Texans refused to legalize slavery, which was the only condition on which southern politicians would accept Texan statehood.

13.

1 point

The relentless expansion of American settlement generated two major conflicts that overshadowed all the others. These conflicts included the expansion of slavery into

Missouri and Arkansas.

Missouri and Texas.

Missouri and Maine.

Texas and Arkansas.

14.

1 point

Certain regions, especially the lower Mississippi valley and the prairies of the Northwest Territory, turned out to contain some of the finest agricultural land in the world. The agricultural possibilities of both Mississippi and Illinois astounded foreign observers. Title to these lands was

easy, dependable and cheap to obtain.

only possible for white southern farmers.

hard, uncertain, and expensive.

impossible for immigrants.

15.

1 point

From 1818 until the early 1840s, the Oregon Territory was

of great interest to eastern merchants and midwestern farmers who pressed Congress for aid to facilitate travel to the region.

under the joint occupancy of Great Britain and the United States.

a British protectorate.

a no-man's land without an organized government and not formally claimed by any government.

16.

1 point

The first phase of the Mexican War began with an invasion of northern Mexico under Zachary Taylor and the conquest of

Utah and New Mexico

the Alamo

New Mexico and California

Utah and California

17.

1 point

Since the 18th century, Americans believed that the westward sway of empire would carry ______________ and ______________ into the uninhabited western regions of the United States.

freedom and states rights

slavery and conflict

republicanism and Christianity

wealth and economic opportunity

18.

1 point

In 1846 there were four basic political agenda's took shape for dealing with the Mexican Cession. Which of the following was not one of those agendas?

Lewis Cass' proposal that the popular will of the people in the territories should decide on the slavery issue themselves

Extend the Missouri Compromise through the Mexican Cession

The Wilmont Provisio

Martin Van Buren's premise that the Supreme Court should decide which territory should become free or slave

Calhoun's premise that Congress did not have the right to keep any citizen from taking their property to any US territory

19.

1 point

This Senator reorganized Clay's eight resolutions into five separate bills, and build separate coalitions around each bill.

Millard Fillmore

Daniel Webster

Stephen A. Douglas

John C. Calhoun

20.

1 point

The second phase of the Mexican War began with an ambitious invasion of Mexico from the Gulf of Mexico at Veracruz with 14,000 troops under the command of

James K. Polk

Winfield Scott

Zachary Taylor

Stephen W. Kearney

21.

1 point

The concept of Manifest Destiny included the assumption that

Americans were culturally equal to the native and Hispanic populations to the west.

the citizens of the United States were destined by God to dominate the “inferior” peoples of the continent.

Protestantism and the American form of government should be established in Mexico.

the western boundaries of the United States should stop at the Rocky Mountains.