Multiple Choice Chapter 13 Self-Quiz 2

. In the election of 1844, the Democrats

opposed any restrictions on popular sovereignty in the territories.

supported overturning the Missouri Compromise.

advocated the annexation of Texas.

gained votes from Chinese who supported their open immigration policy.

. During the Mexican War,

10 times more troops died from disease than combat.

Abraham Lincoln lost his first bid for the presidency.

the Whig Party broke apart over support for the war.

New Mexico temporarily became an independent nation.

. Polk settled the Oregon question by

agreeing to a boundary well south of his initial demand.

forcing Mexico to cede the territory in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

sending Commodore Matthew Perry to engage in gunboat diplomacy.

renegotiating the Missouri Compromise.

. Americans considered the main impediment to fruitful use of the territory acquired from Mexico to be

the relative lack of rainfall.

the lazy habits and Catholicism of the inhabitants.

the imposing Rocky Mountain range blocking travel and trade.

the huge herds of bison that made cattle ranching impossible.

. The main source of immigrants to the United States in the decade after the discovery of gold in California came from

Africa and the Caribbean.

Europe.

Latin America.

Asia.

. In the antebellum era, the population of New Orleans was best characterized as

French, African, and American.

French.

acculturated Americans.

polyglot.

. The Dred Scott decision increased sectional tensions because

it forced northern states to protect slavery.

it outlined a pathway to full abolition.

it limited the rights of southern slaveholders.

it banned the expansion of slavery to the West.

. What was the most significant influence on the downfall of the Whig Party?

the election of 1852

the Kansas-Nebraska Act

the rise of the Republican Party

the Compromise of 1850

. The key issue for the Know-Nothing Party was

antislavery.

western expansion.

immigration.

remaining neutral on all political issues.

. Enslaved blacks

were fairly content with their situation, as evidenced by the lack of revolts.

took every opportunity to gain their freedom by running away.

were unable to create and sustain viable family lives.

took every opportunity to seek small measures of freedom within the system.

. One of the ways Afro-Christianity differed from white evangelicals beliefs was in its

submission to God and to masters.

celebration of the deliverance from evil.

repudiation of the prophetic tradition within Christianity.

restoration of a, albeit secret, church hierarchy.

. The Wilmot Proviso was proposed during the

aftermath of the Mexican War.

Kansas-Nebraska controversy.

days after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.

debate over the Compromise of 1850.

. The success of the Republican Party was based on

its association of free soil and free labor.

its abolitionist platform.

its nativist platform.

the passage of the federal Fugitive Slave Act.

. In Kansas, John Brown and his sons

raided Harpers Ferry.

attempted to start a slave rebellion.

attacked a family of pro-slavery settlers.

sacked the town of Lawrence.

. What happened to Charles Sumner?

With the aid of federal troops, he was returned to slavery.

He was beaten by Preston Brooks on the floor of Congress.

He was hung for his attack on Harpers Ferry.

After he resigned his seat, his constituents reelected him.

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