Unit one Quiz Review WHY MS HUNTER PLS STOP

T/F In an attempt to avoid conflict, CA was admitted without Congressional approval

FALSE FALSE FALSE

T/F Following the Mexican-American War, Northern Whigs proposed federal legislation restrict slavery within its existing boundaries and eventually extinguish it completely.

TRUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE LALALALLA

T/F The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified the Missouri Compromise of 1850

YUPYUPYUp THATS TRUE MY FRIENDS

T/F One provision of the compromise of 1850 was the allowance of popular sovereignty to determine slavery in all areas ceded by Mexico. 

FLASE NOPE NOPE NOPE

T/F In the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, ex-whigs, free-soilers, and abolitionists formed the new Republican Party.

TRUEUeueuUEuEU

By 1848, the Democratic party was losing northerners to the Free-soil party due to…… hmmmmm I wonderrr

Opposition among northern Democrats to the expansion of slavery

Which of the following was NOT a proposal intending to address growing tension over the expansion of slavery?

Popular sovereignty should be developed for every state, allowing each to decide its slave policies independently of the federal government mega slay boom boom

The fugitive slave act…

Was widely resisted by northerners who opposed participating in the enslavement of people BOOM 

Which of the following was NOT a way the fugitive slave act was challenged…

Widespread arms resistance broke out in American cities across the North wow excitung

Which of the following did not contribute to violence..

The DRED SCOTT MY KING decision 

T/F James K. Polk won the election for 1844 on an Ant-s;slavery platform

FALSE HE LOOOVED SLAVERYYYY

T/F Polk sought to provoke war in Mexico so the US could expand into northern territories

TRUEUEUeuueueue

T/F Polk’s expansionist policies united democrats and whigs in opposing ideologies.

FALSE THEY HATE EACH OTHER # NOTBESTIES

T/F Many northerner joined the free soil movement, fearful that LARGE landowners in the south would DOMINATE the national economy… heh like DYLAN

YES YES YES

T/F The slave power conspiracy generated fear among small white farmers

TWUE

All of the following motivated MERCAN settlers to Texas except

Mexico’s pro slavery constitution

Manifest Destiny was motivated by all of the following EXCPET

American’s fear that Native groups allied with an expansionist Mexico would DOMINATE

What was the goal of the Wilmot Proviso?

To ban slavery in the western lands

John Calhoun said: “Ours is government of the white man which should never welcome into the Union any but the Caucasian race.” What was this in relation to?

Opposition to further expansion into populated areas of Mexico

Cotton monoculture has what long term effect on Southern Agriculture?

It tied the southern economy to a single volatile commodity.

T/F The Indian removal act was intended to ease tensions over the expansion of slavery in the west

NOPE 

false.

T/F The Taney Court increased rulings favoring the states over the federal government.

True

T/F The Democratic party looked with suspicion on government efforts to stimulate commercial and industrial growth

Yes ma’am

T/F The whig vision of America was one of a nation embracing the industrial future and rising to world greatness as a commercial and manufacturing power.

You know it!