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WorksheetsUnit 4 Study Guide
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 23mins
Frequent attacks by Native American warriors posed a major threat to wagon trains traveling west.
True
False
_______ was the idea that people settling in a territory should vote on whether or not to allow slavery there.
Bleeding Kansas
The Calhoun Resolution
The Wilmot Proviso
Popular Sovereignty
The Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case
outlawed slavery in the territories.
ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
settled the slavery issue.
freed an enslaved man.
What was the major platform of the Free-Soil Party?
the abolition of slavery
keeping slavery out of the Western territories
large-scale land redistribution
the relocation of African Americans to colonies in Africa
The Kansas-Nebraska Act enraged many people who opposed the extension of slavery because it repealed the
Lecompton Constitution.
Missouri Compromise.
Freeport Doctrine.
Fugitive Slave Act.
How did the Compromise of 1850 help calm the debate over slavery?
It called for restrictions on the slave trade in the United States.
It admitted California as a free state and New Mexico as a slave state.
It offered concessions to people on both sides of the slavery issue.
It forbade slavery in the Western territories.
The Compromise of 1850 appealed to Southerners for several reasons, including
it admitted California as a free state.
it admitted New Mexico as a slave state.
it included the Fugitive Slave Act.
it added to the debts held by Texans.
In 1836 Texas declared its independence from the United States.
True
False
What was an unintended result of the Fugitive Slave Act?
The North began to feel sympathetic toward Southern slaveholders.
Southerners began to lose more enslaved people to the North.
The South was unable to capture its enslaved people in the North.
Many Northerners who had been indifferent to slavery were enraged by it.
What was the Underground Railroad?
an army of abolitionists and freed African Americans who entered the Western territories
an informal system of abolitionists who helped enslaved African Americans escape to the North
a network of spies sent by Northern abolitionists into the South to collect information about slavery
slave trade routes and secrets that Southerners tried to keep out of Northern newspapers
Which politician said “A house divided against itself cannot stand”?
Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun
What happened when Kansas voted on whether or not to allow slavery?
Northerners and Southerners poured into the territory and clashed violently over the vote.
Kansas voted to allow slavery, causing abolitionists to leave for Nebraska.
The transcontinental railroad was moved to a southern route.
Congress would not allow Kansas to enter the Union because it voted to be a free state.
In 1859, what fervent abolitionist attacked the arsenal at Harpers Ferry?
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
John Brown
Robert E. Lee
What did the raiders on Harpers Ferry hope to accomplish?
They wanted the South to secede.
They wanted West Virginia to break away from Virginia.
They wanted to draw attention to the plight of Kansas.
They wanted to start an uprising of enslaved people.
Who asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare him a free man, arguing that the time he had spent in free territory had ended his enslavement?
John Sanford
Roger B. Taney
Dred Scott
Frederick Douglass
How did the results of the Mexican War increase sectional tensions in the United States?
The territory acquired from Mexico ignited the debate over the expansion of slavery.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo angered many Northeasterners.
Businesses in the Southwest were upset about the loss of trade with Mexico.
Northern railroad companies now had the chance to expand operations.
A divisive issue that eventually contributed to the Civil War was whether to allow
slavery to expand into the western territories.
slavery to expand into the North.
enslaved Africans to become citizens of the United States.
the continued capturing and transporting of Africans to the United States.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
a Northern newspaper that condemned the expansion of slavery into the new territories
an addendum to another bill that prohibited slavery in territories gained from Mexico
a resolution that defended the rights of new states to determine the slavery issue for themselves
a debate between David Wilmot and John Calhoun over slavery
What were squatters?
Native American people who helped Western settlers
cowboys who were looking for work
people who stole from frontier towns
people who settled on land they did not own
Emigrants who made the journey westward in wagon trains were called
overlanders.
mountain men.
trail blazers.
westward wagoneers.
How did Western Native Americans initially help settlers?
by offering to let settlers stay in Native American villages for long periods
by teaching the settlers how to hunt buffalo herds
by giving the settlers their traditional lands to settle
by offering water, trade, and information about the land
In 1849 thousands of “Forty-niners” came to California seeking
freedom from slavery.
religious freedom.
cheap land.
gold.
As overland traffic across the Great Plains increased, what concern did Native Americans begin to have?
that the settlers would disrupt the migrating buffalo herds
that the settlers were stealing supplies from Native American villages
that settlers were spreading diseases to Native Americans
that wagon trains were trampling brush and crops used by Native Americans
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Harriet Tubman.
Frederick Douglass.
Simon Legree.
Early pioneers were known as “squatters” because they
did not want to pay for their land.
relied on new agricultural technology.
settled on land they did not own.
settled on Native American lands.
In the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1851, the U.S. government offered which of the following to Native Americans to ensure the safe passage of settlers across the Great Plains?
supplies and horses
government reservations
a lessening of wagon trains
land and money
In 1821, Mexico won its independence from
Portugal.
Spain.
Russia.
France.
Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 without Southern support.
True
False
The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin...
aroused antislavery sentiment in the North.
justified slavery by depicting African Americans as being happy in enslavement.
justified slavery by depicting African Americans as heretics.
led to better treatment of enslaved African Americans in the South.
The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad was
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Harriet Tubman.
Frederick Douglass.
Simon Legree.
The most significant challenge facing overlanders traveling west in the early 1800s was
attacks by wild animals.
difficult terrain and weather.
fights among settlers.
Native American attacks.
What happened to Mexico's northern territories after it won its independence?
They were largely neglected and undefended.
They became the location of Mexico's government.
They were flooded by Mexican immigrants.
They were purchased by the United States.
During the Texas War for Independence, Texas’s forces captured Santa Anna at the battle of
Goliad.
Gonzales.
San Antonio.
San Jacinto.
What happened in the Southwest as more Americans arrived in the region?
The U.S. government decided to annex several territories.
Trade between the countries was disrupted by the influx of immigrants.
Tensions arose between the Mexican government and the American settlers.
American settlers eventually migrated into southern Mexico.
Which state eventually declared independence from Mexico because Americans outnumbered Spanish-speaking residents?
Arizona
California
New Mexico
Texas
What occurred at the Battle of San Jacinto that ended the Texas war for independence?
Mexican residents joined the Texans and defeated the Mexican army.
Santa Anna was captured by Texans and forced to sign a peace treaty.
The Texans were crushed and Mexico continued to own Texas.
The Mexican army retreated, and Santa Anna was not interested in continuing the war.
The Gadsden Purchase was intended to
balance the division of territory between free states and slave states.
expand slavery westward.
balance the amount of territory included in Kansas and Nebraska.
create a route for the transcontinental railroad from New Orleans.
After winning independence from Mexico, Texans elected Sam Houston as their first president and voted in favor of
annexation to the United States.
banning slavery.
remaining an independent republic.
seeking international recognition.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided for
Mexico to maintain a military presence in southern California.
Mexico to cede 500,000 square miles of territory to the United States.
Mexico to agree to the Nueces River as Texas's border.
Mexico to pay $15 million and take over all debts to U.S. citizens.
The idea that God had given the entire North American continent to Americans to settle was called
the Western Migration
Manifest Destiny.
Religious Tolerance.
the Monroe Doctrine.
The rallying cry “Fifty-four Forty or Fight!” meant that supporters of presidential candidate James K. Polk wanted the United States to control
54,040 acres of California that were in dispute.
54,040 acres of Texas that were in dispute.
California to the 54° 40´ north latitude line.
Oregon to the 54° 40´ north latitude line.
What large group migrated west to what is now Utah in search of religious freedom?
Puritans
Roman Catholics
Mormons
Methodists
At the battle of the Alamo, a small force led by Lieutenant Colonel William B. Travis sought to
defeat a much larger Mexican force and bring the war to a conclusion.
delay the Mexican forces and give the Texas army more time to prepare.
launch a surprise attack on the Mexican troops.
retreat toward Louisiana to recruit and train new volunteers.
In the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the United States promised eight Native American groups that specific territories of the Great Plains would belong to them as long as they
agreed to move to reservations.
allowed settlers to pass through peacefully.
assimilated into American society.
served in the United States War with Mexico.
The large amount of territory won from Mexico as a result of the War with Mexico decreased sectional tensions over the spread of slavery.
True
False
The Fugitive Slave Act required only law enforcement officers to help capture runaways.
True
False
