Time Period 5: Cold War Battle

Time Period 5 review questions for Bryant High School APUSH Cold War battle!

Manifest Destiny

73. What was the name given to the belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean?

He feared it would ignite controversy over slavery

74. Why did President Jackson oppose the admission of Texas into the Union?

His promise to take all of the Oregon land under dispute between the USA and Britain

75. Polk’s slogan, “fifty-four forty or fight” referred to what?

He claimed Mexican troops illegally crossed into American territory and killed American soldiers, shedding American blood on American soil

76. How did President Polk justify the Mexican War?

the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

77. What was the treaty that ended the Mexican War?

Prohibited slavery in the lands from the Mexican-American war

78. What was the Wilmot Proviso?

California as a free state, Abolished slave trade in DC, protected slavery in DC, Fugitive Slave act, Territorial governments in NM and UT

79. List the elements of the Compromise of 1850.

Popular Soverignty

80. What was the principle that settlers of a given territory would have the sole right to decide whether or not slavery would be permitted there?

senator Steven A. Douglas

81. Who was the leading proponent of popular sovereignty?

Nebraska Territory divided into KS and NE, and their status determined by popular soverignty

82. What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Dred Scott was a slave and could not sue in federal court

83. What was the ruling in the Dred Scott case?

Abraham Lincoln

84. Who won the presidential election of 1860?

Railroads, strong industrial base, superior navy, larger population, abundant food supply

85. List three advantages of the North during the Civil War

Smaller population, smaller industrial base

86. List two disadvantages of the South during the Civil War.

Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, West Virginia

87. Name two border states.

The Union victory persuaded England and France to be neutral and enabled Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

88. What was important about the Battle of Antietam?

Rallied anti-slavery support in England and France; and it did not free slaves in the Border states

89. List two consequences of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Offered land for cheap, sometimes free, to anyone who would settle and improve the land

90. What was the Homestead Act of 1862?

Suspended habeas corpus for anyone between DC and Philly

91. Give one example of how Lincoln expanded presidential power during the war.

Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

92. What did the 13th Amendment to the constitution do?

Equal protection of the laws, equal citizenship, due process, civil rights to former slaves

93. What did the 14th Amendment to the constitution do?

Universal male suffrage, gave black males the right to vote

94. What did the 15th Amendment to the constitution do?

Sharecropping

95. What was the system that led to a cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers?

Black Codes

96. What was the title given to the laws passed by Southern state legislatures intended to place limits on the socioeconomic opportunities and freedoms open to Black people?

It ended reconstruction

97. What was the significance of the Compromise of 1877?