US History Chapter 1 Sections 4 & 5

What was Manifest Destiny?

• the national search for a route to Washington State

• the belief that all slaves should be freed immediately

• the belief that America was meant to extend to the Pacific Ocean

• the desire for free land in the West for settlers D.the desire for free land in the West for settlers

When he ran for president, James K. Polk promised to annex

• California and New Mexico.

• Texas and Oregon.

• California and Oregon.

• Texas and New Mexico.

How did the war with Mexico change the United States?

• The United States was forced to pay war reparations to Mexico for the damage done there.

• The United States lost Texas to Mexico.

• The United States lost California and was forced to purchase it.

• The United States acquired more than 500,000 miles of new territory.

What was popular sovereignty?

• the idea that the people of Texas had the right to join the United States

• the idea that Americans wanted slavery to confined to the South

• the idea that citizens of each territory should decide whether to allow slavery there

• the idea that Congress had the right to determine whether a territory would allow slavery

What was the unintended result of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• It further enraged Northerners against the institution of slavery.

• It allowed Southern plantation owners to recoup damages for enslaved people who successfully escaped.

• It allowed the country to reach a compromise that would keep them from war.

• It provided funding to fugitive slave catchers to help the Southern economy.

What caused the crisis in Kansas that resulted in two competing state governments?

• Congress's decision to delay statehood for Kansas until a compromise could be reached

• the decision to allow residents to vote on whether Kansas would be a slave or free state

• the admission of Kansas into the Union without mentioning slavery

• Missouri's desire to annex Kansas as part of its own state

Anger over the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the formation of what political party?

• the Whigs

• the Anti-Whigs

• the Republicans

• the Democrats

What did John Brown do that led to further anger between the North and the South?

• He attempted to start a slave uprising.

• He was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

• He became governor of Kansas.

• He condemned slavery in Congress.

What factor allowed Abraham Lincoln to win the presidential election in 1860?

• Lincoln's ability to win Southern voters

• the division in the Democratic Party between North and South

• the Dred Scott decision

• the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted what reaction in the Southern states?

• They annexed much of the Western territories.

• They protested in Congress.

• They held their own election for president.

• They seceded from the Union.