U.S. History Ch. 1.4

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

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.