American Pageant Ch. 18

In order to maintain the two great political parties as vital bonds of national unity, party leaders in the late 1840s

• called for the banning of slavery from all U.S. territories.

• called for allowing slavery into all U.S. territories.

• avoided a full public discussion of and debate about slavery.

• banished abolitionists from membership in either national party.

The U.S.'s victory in the Mexican War resulted in all of the following except

• renewed controversy over the issue of extending slavery into the territories.

• a possible split in the Whig and Democrat parties over slavery.

• a rush of settlers to new American territory in California.

• acquisition of the Oregon territory.

The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have

• prevented the taking of any territory from Mexico.

• required California to enter the Union as a slave state.

• overturned the Fugitive Slave Law.

• prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War.

The debate over slavery in the Mexican Cession

• threatened to split national politics along North-South lines.

• nearly resulted in the return of the territory to Mexico.

• resulted in the formation of the Republican party.

• resulted in strong hostility to further expansionism.

The Free Soil Party of 1848 harbored many northerners who stood squarely against slavery in the territories primarily on the grounds that

• further expansion of slavery might break up the union.

• it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise up from wage-earning dependence.

• slavery was a moral evil contrary to American principles.

• slaver labor would be unproductive in the West.

In 1848, the Free Soil Party platform advocated all of the following except

• support of the Wilmot Proviso.

• federal aid for internal improvements.

• free government homesteads for settlers.

• permitting slavery in selected western territories acquired through the Mexican War.

According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories should be determined by

• an elected territorial governor.

• congressional legislation.

• a Supreme Court decision.

• the self-determination of people in any given territory.

In the 1848 presidential election, the Democratic and Whig parties

• lost to the Free Soil party.

• addressed the issue of slavery.

• remained silent on the issue of slavery.

• abandoned the tactic of nominating military leaders.

The two major parties kept the focus on the 1848 presidential election campaign on

• the personalities of Senator Cass and General Taylor.

• addressing the slavery issue through popular sovereignty.

• further expansion into Cuba and Central American.

• Indian removal and homesteading.

The Free Soilers condemned slavery because

• of the harm it did to blacks.

• it violated their strongly held moral principles about the equality of all races.

• it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise from wage-earning to self-employment.

• it damaged the national economy.