DC HIST 1301

1. Mexico’s winning independence from Spain slowed American expansion westward.

• True

• False

Mexico was concerned with Anglo-American immigration because the immigrants brought slaves, and Mexico was a free nation.

• True

• False

Support for the Mexican-American War was strongest among New England abolitionists.

• True

• False

Congress never passed the Wilmot Proviso.

• True

• False

As a result of the Compromise of 1850, California entered the Union as a free state.

• True

• False

The Republican party was created in 1854 by the merger of several anti-slavery groups.

• True

• False

In 1857, the majority of the population in Kansas was anti-slavery.

• True

• False

Through his execution, John Brown accomplished little for the anti-slavery cause, as few in the United States even noticed the event occurred.

• True

• False

The First Battle of Bull Run was a Union defeat.

• True

• False

The Battle of Fort Sumter was the opening battle of the Civil War.

• True

• False