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Ch. 13 Possible Questions

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In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed to:
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Prohibit slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico.
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The free soil party:
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Demonstrated that anti slavery sentiment had spread far beyond abolitionist ranks.
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"Fifty four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of:
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Oregon.
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American settlement in Texas in the 1820's and 1830's:
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Led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials.
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The fugitive slave act of 1850:
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Gave new powers to federal officers to override local law enforcement.
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Which of the following was not a provision of the compromise of 1850?
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The Oregon territory would be created.
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The republican free labor ideology:
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Led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible.
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In 1821, the opening of the Santa Fe trail between Santa Fe and ______ led to a reorientation of new mexicos commerce from the rest of Mexico to the U.S.
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Independence, Missouri.
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Which of the following is an example of the political impact of the Kansas Nebraska act?
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The Whig party collapsed, and many disgruntled northerners joined the new Republican Party.
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Stephen Douglas's motivation for introducing the Kansas Nebraska act was to:
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Boost efforts to build a transcontinental railroad.
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President Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the U.S. Because:
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The presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery and they preferred to avoid it.
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When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821;
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It's Indian population was relatively large compared to its non Indian population.
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The term "Californios" referred in the 1830's and 1840's to ______ in California.
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Mexican cattle ranchers.
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What attracted voters to the know nothing party?
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It's denunciation or Roman Catholic immigrants.
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Who wrote on civil disobedience as a response to the U.S. War with Mexico?
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Henry David Thoreau.
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The Republican Party founded in the 1850's strongly endorsed the same policy about slavery in the territories that _______ has begun advocating in 1846.
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David Wilmot.
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The treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo of 1848 provides for all the following except:
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U.S. Control of all of he Oregon country.
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Why did slavery become more central to American politics in the 1840's?
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Territorial expansion raised the question of whether new lands should be free or slave.