AMH Unit 3 Test Review

What was the belief behind the concept of Manifest Destiny?

• The US should annex Texas and California

• The US had a divine right to expand across North America

• The US should remain within its existing borders and protect itself from European invasion

• The US should promote the abolition of slavery in the South

Which president is most closely associated with the annexation of Texas and the start of the Mexican-American War?

• James K. Polk

• Martin Van Buren

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

Which of the following led to the US acquisition of California and the Southwest?

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• The Missouri Compromise

Which of the following led to the rapid population increase in California and its eventual statehood?

• The California Gold Rush

• The founding of the Free Soil Party

• The election of Abraham Lincoln

• The Bleeding Kansas Conflict

The admission of which states threatened to upset the balance between free and slave states in the Senate leading to a national crisis in 1820:

• West Virginia & Nevada

• Texas & California

• Oregon & California

• Missouri & Maine

Which political party emerged as a response to the expansion of slavery into the territories and support the idea of free soil in the West?

• Know-Nothing Party

• Free Soil Party

• Northern Democrats

• Southern Democrats

Which of the following repealed the Missouri Compromise?

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Wade-Davis Bill

• The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required citizens to:

• Grant asylum to runaway slaves

• Capture and return slaves to their owners, even if they are in a free state

• End slavery in all Southern states

• Protect freedmen in negotiating contracts with employers

This former slave became a prominent abolitionist and publisher of The North Star, advocating for the emancipation of slavery and civil rights for African Americans:

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Stephen Douglas

Who was responsible for introducing and advocating for the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Stephen Douglas

• Frederick Douglass