APUSH - Period 5.1, 5.2

The belief that the United States had a special mission to expand over the entire North American continent was known as

• divine providence
  
• Manifest Destiny
• nullification.
• American exceptionalism.

With regard to the Oregon Territory, in 1846, the United States

• provoked a shooting war to acquire the lands it sought.
• concluded a peace treaty with Britain which established the United States’ northern border at 54°40’ north latitude.
• hammered out a compromise agreement with the British Empire.
• denied any further Asian immigration into the region.

The Wilmot Proviso

• encouraged slavery’s expansion westward.
• called for American annexation of lands conquered from Mexico as free territory.
• successfully postponed the outbreak of the Civil War for 10 years.
• proclaimed that western territories would be open to slavery if their citizens voted to allow it.

A central element in the conquest and submission of the American Indians of the West was the

• decision of many western tribes to side with the Confederacy during the Civil War.
• rapid growth of cities and population on the California coast.
• destruction of the buffalo herds.
• prolonged drought and harsh winters of the 1860s and 1870s.

American interests and priorities with regard to Asia in the 1840s and 1850s primarily centered around

• seeking opportunities for colonization.
• fishing rights.
• trade and commerce.
• a fear of Japanese domination of the Far East.

Who advocated for the immediate and uncompensated release of all slaves held in the United States?

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Abraham Lincoln
• John C. Calhoun
• Henry Clay

In terms of politics, the 1850s were noteworthy because they witnessed the

• decline in the power of the free-soil movement.
• dissolution of national political parties over sectional concerns.
• South gradually extend its control over both the Presidency and Congress.
• Supreme Court distance itself from the slavery issue.

As a result of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852,

• calls for political compromise over the issue of slavery increased.
• the American Colonization Society began transporting ex-slaves back to Africa.
• the Underground Railroad was formed.
• abolitionism gained ground in the North.
  

The theory that individual states do not necessarily have to carry out any federal laws with which they disagree is known as

• popular sovereignty.
• federalism.
• nullification.
• the reserved powers clause of the Constitution.

What became the most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850?

• The admission of California as a free state
• The Fugitive Slave Act
  
• The banning of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• The potential opening up of Utah and New Mexico territories to slavery