OpenStax US History Ch. 11 Review Questions

As a result of the Adams-Onís Treaty, the United States gained which territory from Spain?

A. Florida
B. New Mexico
C. California
D. Nevada

A

The Long Expedition established a short-lived republic in Texas known as ________.

A. the Lone Star Republic
B. the Republic of Texas
C. Columbiana
D. the Republic of Fredonia

B

For what purposes did Thomas Jefferson send Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Territory? What did he want them to accomplish?

He wanted them to find an all-water route to the Pacific Ocean, strengthen U.S. claims to the Pacific Northwest by reaching it through an overland route, explore and map the territory, make note of its natural resources and wildlife, and make contact with Indian tribes with the intention of establishing trade with them.

A proposal to prohibit the importation of slaves to Missouri following its admission to the United States was made by ________.

A. John C. Calhoun
B. Henry Clay
C. James Tallmadge
D. John Quincy Adams

C

To balance votes in the Senate, ________ was admitted to the Union as a free state at the same time that Missouri was admitted as a slave state.

A. Florida
B. Maine
C. New York
D. Arkansas

B

Why did the Missouri Crisis trigger threats of disunion and war? Identify the positions of both southern slaveholders and northern opponents of the spread of slavery.

Norther politicians didn't like the terms of the Missouri Compromise since it allowed the expansion of slavery into the lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. They feared it would lead to the West being dominated by slaveholders. Southerners disliked the compromise since it prohibited people from taking their slaves into the territory north of 36° 30' latitude, which they thought was in violation of their property rights.

Texas won its independence from Mexico in ________.

A. 1821
B. 1830
C. 1836
D. 1845

C

Texans defeated the army of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at the battle of ________.

A. the Alamo
B. San Jacinto
C. Nacogdoches
D. Austin

B

How did Texas settlers' view of Mexico and its people contribute to the history of Texas in the 1830s?

American slaveholders in Texas distrusted the Mexican government's reluctant tolerance of slavery and wanted Texas to be a new U.S. slave state. Most also disliked Mexican's Roman Catholicism and regarded them as dishonest, ignorant, and backward. Belief in their own superiority inspired some Texans to try to undermine the power of the Mexican Government.

Which of the following was not a reason the United States was reluctant to annex Texas?

A. The United States did not want to fight a war with Mexico.

B. Annexing Texas would add more slave territory to the United States and anger abolitionists.

C. Texans considered U.S. citizens inferior and did not want to be part of their country.

D. Adding Texas would upset the balance between free and slave states in Congress.

C

According to treaties signed in 1818 and 1827, with which country did the United States jointly occupy Oregon?

A. Great Britain
B. Spain
C. Mexico
D. France

A

During the war between the United States and Mexico, revolts against U.S. control broke out in ________.

A. Florida and Texas
B. New Mexico and California
C. California and Texas
D. Florida and California

B

Why did whites in California dislike the Chinese so much?

The Chinese were more disciplined that the majority of the white miners, gaining a reputation for being extremely hard-working and frugal. White miners resented the minding successes that the Chinese earned. They believed the Chinese were unfairly depriving them of the means to earn a living.

The practice of allowing residents of territories to decide whether their land should be slave or free was called ________.

A. the democratic process
B. the Wilmot Proviso
C. popular sovereignty
D. the Free Soil solution

C

Which of the following was not a provision of the Compromise of 1850?

A. California was admitted as a free state.

B. Slavery was abolished in Washington, DC.

C. A stronger fugitive slave law was passed.

D. Residents of New Mexico and Utah were to decide for themselves whether their territories would be slave or free.

B

Describe the events leading up to the formation of the Free-Soil Party.

At the party's national convention in 1848, the majority of Democrats voted for a candidate who supported popular sovereignty. A faction of the party was dismayed by this outcome; they opposed popular sovereignty and wanted to restrict the expansion of slavery in order to protect the value of white workers' labor. They united with antislavery Whigs and former members of the Liberty Party to form a new political party-The Free-Soil party - which had one goal, to oppose the extension of slavery into the territories.