APUSH Topics 5.2-5.7 Road to Civil War

Why Henry Clay lost the 1844 election to James K Polk?

• The annexation of Texas two weeks prior to the election

• He was a slaveowning Democrat

• The Liberty Party candidate took enough votes to give the election to Polk

• He was a member of Van Buren's barnburners

He issued the "spot resolution" demanding to know on whose soil blood had been spilt leading to the Mexican War.

• Henry Clay

• Henry David Thoreau

• Abraham Lincoln

• John C. Calhoun

What was controversial about the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

• Fugitive slaves arriving in either state would be freed

• Kansas would be admitted as a slave state, Nebraska as a free state

• Blacks would have no claim to the rights enjoyed by the citizens of the two new states

• Settlers would decide whether their state would be free or slave

Which of the following is true about the 1844 election?

• Martin Van Buren won on the slogan, "fifty-four forty or fight."

• James G. Birney was Clay's vice president

• It was won by the "dark horse" candidate - James K Polk

• Henry Clay won the election by a narrow margin

True about the Compromise of 1850.

• Slavery was allowed in Washington, D.C.

• Congress would determine the status of slavery in the territory acquired from Mexico

• California was opened to "popular sovereignty" - the people would decide free or slave.

• The slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia

The Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford that

• The Fugitive Slave Law was unconstitutional

• That slaves were automatically free once they crossed the Missouri Compromise Line

• African-Americans had no rights whites were compelled to recognize

• The Compromise of 1850 was constitutional

He was beat within inches of his life on the floor of the Senate by Preston Brooks over the issue of slavery on

• Senator William Seward

• Senator Charles Sumner

• Senator John C. Calhoun

• Senator Thaddeus Stevens

Actually controlled the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande over which the Mexican War started.

• The United States

• Central American immigrants

• Spanish missionaries

• Comanche Indians

Which of the following is true about the election of 1848?

• Lewis Cass of Michigan won the election

• Martin Van Buren was the presidential candidate for the Liberty Party

• Charles Francis Adams was the Democratic Party's nominee

• Zachary Taylor won the election

His death, and his successor's support of Henry Clay over the admission of California, led to the passage of the Compromise of 1850.

• President Millard Filmore

• President James K. Polk

• President Zachary Taylor

• President James Buchanan