Chapter 11 Terms

What role did an alcalde serve in Mexican society?

• A military general

• A combined civil administrator, judge, and law enforcement officer

• A religious leader

• A merchant

Who were the Barnburners?

• A group of southern Democrats supporting slavery

• Northern Democrats loyal to Martin Van Buren opposing slavery extension

• A faction of the Whig Party

• A group of abolitionists in the South

What was the Compromise of 1850?

• A treaty with Native American tribes

• A series of laws to resolve issues from the Mexican Cession and sectional crisis

• An agreement to end the Civil War

• A pact between the U.S. and Mexico over land disputes

Who led the Corps of Discovery?

• Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett

• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

• Zebulon Pike and John C. Frémont

• Kit Carson and Jim Bridger

What was the primary goal of the Free-Soil Party?

• To promote industrialization in the North

• To exclude slavery from western territories

• To support the annexation of Texas

• To advocate for women's suffrage

What was the Mexican Cession?

• The lands west of the Rio Grande ceded to the United States by Mexico in 1848

• An agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state

• A nonexistent all-water route across North America

• An amendment to a revenue bill barring slavery

What did the Missouri Compromise achieve?

• It ceded lands west of the Rio Grande to the United States

• It allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and prohibited slavery north of 36° 30' latitude

• It described the influence of elite southern slaveholders

• It proposed gradual emancipation of enslaved people in Missouri

What was the Northwest Passage?

• A route that allowed Missouri to enter the Union

• A nonexistent all-water route across North America sought by explorers

• An amendment to a revenue bill

• The lands ceded to the United States by Mexico

What does the term "Slave Power" refer to?

• The lands ceded to the United States by Mexico

• The influence of elite southern slaveholders in domestic and international affairs

• A route across North America

• An amendment to a revenue bill

What was the Tallmadge Amendment?

• An amendment that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state

• An amendment proposed to gradually emancipate enslaved people in Missouri

• A revenue bill barring slavery

• A nonexistent all-water route across North America