US History Chapter 13

Which of these was most responsible for the rapid settlement of Americans in California?

• Trapping
• Gold
• Missionaries
• Farming

What political party arose as a coalition of conservative Southerners and Northerners?

• Know-Nothing Party
• Constitutional Union Party
• Republican Party
• Free-Soil Party

According to Lincoln, what was at the heart of his debate with Douglas?

• The rights of the states
• The need to preserve the Union
• The immorality and expansion of slavery
• The social and political equality of blacks

What were forty-niners?

• Free-staters
• Radical abolitionists
• Southern secessionists
• Gold hunters in California

Why did Daniel Webster think the debate over the expansion of slavery was needless?

• Slavery is supported by the Constitution
• The new territories could not support slavery
• People in the territories could choose the status of slavery
• Slavery is an unavoidable evil

Popular sovereignty said that slavery could only be banned by the _____.

• people
• governor
• legislature
• state

Which of these was the earliest controversy in the steady slide toward civil war?

• Compromise of 1850
• Freeport Doctrine
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Wilmot Proviso

Which state was admitted to the Union as a result of the Compromise of 1850?

• Texas
• California
• Missouri
• Oregon

Which of the following was a reaction to the threat of the Wilmot Proviso?

• Calhoun Resolutions
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Freeport Doctrine

What factor was probably most responsible for Lincoln’s election to the presidency?

• Lincoln’s personal appeal
• Widespread opposition to slavery
• Anger over the execution of John Brown
• A split within the Democratic Party