Unit 4 EOC Review

What name was given to the idea that the US should occupy all land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?

• Westward Destiny

• Manifest Destiny

• Westward Manifestation

• Manifesting Westward

When Missouri was ready to become a state, its constitution allowed slavery. This upset the free/slave balance in the Senate. How was this conflict resolved by the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine also entered but as a free state

• California also entered but as a free state

• Missouri had to enter as a free state

• Georgia seceded from the union

After the annexation of Texas, the Mexican-American War led to the ________ which added land is now part of New Mexico, California, and Arizona.

• Treaty of Ghent

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo

• Treaty of Paris

What do the following describe?

1) California was admitted as a free state; 2) Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory were organized with slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty; 3) Texas’s boundaries were established and the federal government assumed Texas’s preannexation debts; 4) the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.; and 5) the Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act anger many abolitionists? Pick 2.

• It allowed for popular sovereignty, meaning that any state could decide to allow slavery.

• It repealed the Missouri Compromise which stated that slavery would never exist above the 36' 30" line.

• It limited the number of slaves states in the Union.

• It would upset the balance of free and slave states in the House of Representatives.

After the Kansas-Nebraska act was passed, lots of people (pro and anti-slavery) went to Kansas. Each side held elections and claimed victories, eventually writing two different constitutions for the state. This led to lots of violence and death. What is this known as?

• Bleeding Kansas

• Red Kansas

• Rough Kansas

• Kansas Burning

Scott v. Sanford (aka Dred Scott Decision) stated that.... pick 3.

• Slaves who escaped north of the Mason-Dixon line were automatically free men.

• No slave or free black could be a citizen of the US

• Congress could not prohibit slavery in federal territories

• Popular Sovereignty and the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional.

Who attempted to raid a federal armory in Virginia, only to be captured by Robert E. Lee?

• John White

• John Green

• John Black

• John Brown

The election of this Republican in 1860 led to the secession of southern states.

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Ronald Reagan

What did Lincoln believe was his most important task as president?

• Ending the Civil War

• Preserving the Union

• Punishing the South

• Killing as many Confederates as possible.