Unit 5 Review (8-10)

8B: Manifest Destiny advanced the belief that:

• new territory would lead to more slavery.

• widespread belief that America was to expand & settle the west

• slavery should be abolished in the United States.

• the Democratic Party would elect the next President.

8A: Sectionalism was a major part of the events that led to the Civil War. What does sectionalism refer to?

• women and men worked in different areas

• people wanted to live further apart from each other

• Favoring the interests of a particular territory over the interest of the nation

• the United States hoped to expand into new areas of the world

8A: How did the Missouri Compromise deal with the issue of slavery?

• It required all territories to abolish slavery before becoming states.

• It made the Mississippi River the dividing line between slave states and free states.

• It prohibited slavery in most of the former Louisiana Territory except for Missouri.

• It stated that all future states would be required to be slave states except for Missouri.

8B: Whose Presidency was MOST concerned with fulfilling the country's Manifest Destiny?

• Andrew Jackson

• James K. Polk

• John Adams

• Abraham Lincoln

8B: Abolitionists often opposed annexation of western territories because they

• feared the addition of antislavery states.

• thought the land was too far away.

• feared the extension of slavery.

• wanted to protect the Indians.

8B: What number on the timeline BEST represents the period in which Texas was annexed by the United States?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

8C: The Wilmot Proviso (1846) attempted to forever ban slavery in territories that were won as a result of

• the Civil War.

• the Mexican-American War.

• the Louisiana Purchase.

• the Spanish-American War.

8C: Two of the MOST important effects of the American victory in the War with Mexico were

• the acquisition of Texas and Arizona.

• the acquisition of California and New Mexico.

• the death of General Santa Anna and the Mexican defeat at the Alamo in Texas.

• the end of guerrilla attacks on Texas settlers and the removal of Mexican settlers there.

8C: How did the Mexican-American War lead to greater sectionalism within the United States government?

• Tensions rose over cotton and tobacco production in Texas and how these goods would be distributed in the U.S. markets.

• Many Republicans did not support the war with Mexico, creating tension in the House and Senate as James K. Polk promoted the war.

• There was great tension between pro-slavery and anti-slavery representatives over how new territories won would handle the issue of slavery.

• Many American settlers in the West did not support the war because they wanted to be exempt from paying taxes to the United States government.

8D: California was initially admitted as a "free state," while citizens of the Utah and New Mexico territories were left to decide the issue for themselves. Which of these set this up?

• Wilmot Proviso

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act