Multiple Choice Chapter 13 Self-Quiz 1

. How did President Polk provoke the Mexican War?

by refusing to negotiate a diplomatic solution

by ordering an attack on Mexican troops using moveable artillery

by campaigning on the policy of "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!"

by sending troops south of the Nueces River into Mexican territory

. Why did Whigs oppose the Mexican War?

because they recognized that acquisition of the Southwest would lead to the Civil War

because they worried an imperial approach would ruin the nation

because they feared tropical diseases would ravage American troops

because they wanted the United States to focus on gaining all of the Oregon territory from Britain

. The most important environmental difference affecting U.S. settlement between the West and the East was

the relative lack of rainfall in the West.

the much larger mountains of the Rockies.

the presence of huge herds of bison.

the lack of trees on the Great Plains.

. What primary factor paved the way for the displacement of Comanche society by U.S. forces?

the influx of American settlers

wars with the Apache, Navajo, and Utes

a decade-long drought

internal conflict and decline

. Asians in the West faced prejudiced attitudes much like those leveled against

poor women.

African Americans.

Catholics.

Indians.

. One way immigrants affected the South was by

bidding up the cost of slaves.

drawing additional support to the Whig Party in the region.

raising concerns that a large community of working-class whites would challenge slavery.

significantly adding to the desire for westward expansion.

. What city was the most diverse in the antebellum South?

New Orleans

Charleston

Richmond

Atlanta

. One of the key battlegrounds in the fight over religion and public life was

Catholics' fitness for high public office.

inserting âunder Godâ into the pledge of allegiance.

Sabbath laws.

public schools.

. North Carolinian Hinton Helper's book The Impending Crisis,

called on non-slaveholding whites to destroy slavery.

foresaw the outbreak of the Civil War.

talked about the struggle between Protestantism and Catholicism.

warned of the increasing power of abolitionists in the North.

. What characterized the end of slavery in the British West Indies?

a deadly racial war between the freed people and their former owners

an increase in sugar production under free labor

the colonization of Africa by nearly all former slaves

a precipitous drop in staple-crop production after the end of apprenticeships

. Slave marriages

rarely occurred because of the brutal nature of slavery.

were seen as unions of convenience by some slaveholders, since they were not legally binding.

were for self-protection because most slaveholders refused to sell husbands or wives.

proved that slaveholders offered good lives to their slaves.

. Setting the new boundary between the US and Mexico after the war was difficult because

effective surveying was still technologically impossible.

the area was not effectively controlled by either government.

residents of the region objected to being part of either nation.

of the question of expanding slavery into the Southwest.

. The most controversial aspect of the Compromise of 1850 was

admitting California as a free state.

opening the Kansas territory to popular sovereignty.

the federal Fugitive Slave Act.

banning the slave trade in the District of Columbia.

. The Kansas-Nebraska Act

repealed the Missouri Compromise.

settled the civil violence in the territory.

banned slavery from the territory.

allowed Kansas to enter as a free state and Nebraska as a slave state.

.

John Brown's raid on Harpers' Ferry

was intended to start a civil war.

reflected the widening gulf between North and South.

energized slaves to fight for their freedom.

resulted in Northern and Southern partisans burying their differences.

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