Apush Chapter 18

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.

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.

The event that threatened to destroy the longstanding balance of free and slave states in the U.S. Senate was

• passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• potential admission of Oregon as a free state.

• attempt to acquire Cuba as a slave state.

• discovery of gold in California and its bid for statehood.

The issue of runaway slaves was important to most southerners because

• the South was losing a significant and irreplaceable portion of its labor force.

• the overwhelming success of the Underground Railroad posed critical and immediate threat to the southern way of life.

• while the overall loss of property was relatively insignificant, the loss of honor and the passing of moral judgments by northerners were felt more.

• escaped slaves would likely organize a black army to stage armed rebellions against white southern planters and their plantations.

The Underground Railroad consisted of

• an informal network of homes where slaves could hide on their escape to freedom.

• a train that hid slaves in cargo areas and carried them to freedom in the north.

• a radical new transportation design.

• None of these choices are correct.

Senator John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and slavery and maintain the Union involved all of the following except

• maintain the legality of slavery where it existed in states and certain western territories.

• return runaway slaves back to their slaveowners in the South.

• restore the political balance in the Senate of free states and slave states.

• prevent the spread of slavery in the California territory.

For the political views he expressed in his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster was viciously condemned by

• northern Unionists.

• northern banking and commercial interests.

• abolitionists and Free-Soilers.

• Henry Clay.

In his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster

• attacked Henry Clay's compromise proposals.

• called for a new, more stringent fugitive-slave law as a political concession to the South.

• advocated a congressional ban on slavery in all the western territories.

• became a hated figure in the South.