APUSH Mexican-American War

Which sentence best describes Manifest Destiny?

• The United States should not acquire Texas.
• The united States needed to compete for trade with Asia.
• The United States was meant to share North America with England and France.
• the United States had the right to settle North America from coast to coast.

This party favored annexation and slavery.  It was a strong party in Texas.

• Democratic
• Whig
• Know-Nothing
• Republican

This party was against the spread of slavery, against annexation, and not strong in Texas.

• Democrat
• Whig
• Know-Nothing
• Republican

This party was secretive, favored nativism, did not approve of immigration, or immigrants who practiced certain religions.

• Democrat
• Whig
• Know-Nothing
• Republican

Which of these was a part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• The Mexican Cession was split between the United States and Mexico.
• Mexico made a $15 million payment to cover claims of US citizens against Mexico.
• The boundary between the United States and Mexico was settled.
• Mexicans living in the area of Mexican Cession could become US citizens

Which of the following was part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Texas would be annexed to the United States as a free state.
• California would join the US as a slave state.
• Mexico would pay reparations to Texans for damage from the TX Revolution
• Texas gave up its claims to New Mexico in exchange for $10 million

The original purpose of the Gadsden Purchase was to

• balance free and slave states.
• enlarge Kansas and Nebraska.
• create a route for a railroad.
• expand slavery west.

The Wilmot Proviso, which never passed, would have

• created a compromise by dividing the territories into free states and slave states.
• made it easier for slaveholders to retrieve an enslaved person
• prevented Congress from banning slavery in any territory gained from Mexico
• prohibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico.

What caused Senator Douglas to introduce the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• the caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks
• the need for a vote in Kansas over whether slavery would be allowed there
• the construction of the transcontinental railroad
• the desire of Northerners that the Missouri Compromise be repealed

Document that legalized slavery in the Kansas territory

• Lecompton Constitution
• Wilmot Proviso
• Freeport Doctrine
• Compromise of 1850