APUSH PERIOD 5 REVIEW

For the 1852 Presidential Election, which Candidate ran on a platform that fully endorsed the Compromise of 1850?

• Stephen A. Douglass (D)

• Franklin Pierce (D)

• James Buchanan (D)

• Martin Van Buren (D)

Which party emerged in the 1844 Presidential Election, stealing away some votes from Clay and partly costing him the election?

• Free Soil

• Liberty Party

• Freedom Party

• Equality Party

These were named for a speech in which Abraham Lincoln (W-IL) called upon President Polk to name the precise location on the ground where American blood had allegedly been shed.

• Dot Resolutions

• Slidell Resolutions

• Spot Resolutions

• Leighton is a Communist

He famously said, "Mexico will poison us."

• Abraham Lincoln

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

What major initiatives did President William Henry Harrison pursue in 1842-1843?

• Securing Oregon

• Fighting a war with Britain over disputed territory north of Maine

• Being Dead

A major goal of leading politicians on all sides of the Second Party System was to keep what issue out of politics as much as possible?

• Tariffs

• Internal Improvements

• A National Bank

• Slavery

Why did many white settlers seek to move into what is now Texas beginning in the 1820s?

• To bring the Market Revolution and "Northern" lifestyle to the region

• To find the fugitive Nathan Flato.

• To experience what it was like being captured and killed by the Comanches.

• To set up profitable slave plantations

Texas had ostensibly gained its independence in 1836 following the Battle of San Jacinto, but Mexico still considered it

• A place to avoid, due to Native American raids.

• A "province in revolt"

What was THE central issue in the Election of 1844?

• What's to be done with Texas?

• What's to be done with Tariffs?

• Will there be a new Bank of the United States?

President Tyler interpreted Polk's election in 1844 as a mandate to annex Texas

• True

• False