Unit 5: Dividing A Nation

What is "Bleeding Kansas"?

• The result of popular sovereignty

• The lack of policial representation in the Kansas Territory

• The term that refers to the work of western frontier settlers

What overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of the latitude boundary line?

• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT
• CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
• KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT
• CONSOLODATION ACT

What war allowed the U.S to acquire new western land including present day New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah?

• War of 1850
• WW2
• Mexican American War
• Cold War

What controversial Law required U.S citizens to return runaway slaves back to their owner?

• Slave codes 
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Underground railroad 
• Slaves Law of 1852

What event directly caused the Mexican- American War?

• Illegal Immigration
• The annexation of Texas
• Embargos
• Border disputes

Slavery became a major issue in the 1840s and 1850s because:

• The northern states tried to abolish slavery in the southern states
• The nation was expanding to the West
• The southern states demanded the end of slavery
• None of these

Texas joined the United States through a process called

• expedition
• veto
• annexation
• joint resolution

This president was a strong believer in expanding the nation westward

• Henry Clay

• Andrew Jackson

• James K. Polk

• Abraham Lincoln

Annexation of Texas was controversial in the United States because ____________________________________.

• it would increase the number of states that did not allow slavery
• it could lead to war with Spain
• it would increase the number of states that allowed slavery
• it would interfere with Manifest Destiny

Why did President Polk want Mexican territory?

• He wanted to expand the US

• The land had good resources

• He needed room to build a mansion for his cats