1 A) united the North and South with a common feeling of nationalism. B) divided the North and the South over the issue of slavery in the territories. C) eliminated the need for debate over the issue of slavery. D) facilitated effective compromises over the increasingly divisive issue of slavery. E) created more slave states than free states. 2 A) all of the nation's current territory. B) the entire territory of the current continental United States. C) nearly the entire territory of the current continental United States. D) the entire continental United States east of the Rockies. E) included the Gadsden Purchase. 3 A) Manifest Destiny. B) divine right. C) white supremacy. D) nativism. E) imperialism. 4 A) the American government quickly agreed. B) Americans in the North opposed acquiring a large new slave territory. C) Southerners, led by President Jackson, pushed for annexation. D) Mexico gave up all claims to Texas. E) Mexico declared war on the U.S. 5 A) did not outnumber the British until after the Civil War. B) had little impact on the few Native Americans there. C) outnumbered the British by 1850. D) were mostly fur trappers. E) drove the Indians into Canada. 6 A) hostile Indians. B) diseases. C) mountain and desert terrain. D) hunger. E) brutal winter weather. 7 A) sending troops to the Nueces River in Texas B) informing Americans in California that the United States would respond sympathetically to a revolt against Mexico C) instructing the Pacific naval commander to seize California ports if Mexico declared war D) ceasing all diplomatic contact with Mexico E) All these answers are correct. 8 A) start a war with Mexico and Great Britain. B) attract John Tyler to the Democratic Party. C) divert attention from the slavery issue. D) get Van Buren to support Polk. E) appeal to both Northern and Southern expansionists. 9 A) experienced significantly higher death rates than the general population. B) experienced constant and deadly attacks by Indian tribes along the trail. C) was a highly individualized experience. D) often migrated as families that practiced traditional gender divisions of labor. E) were often loners who preferred a vagabond lifestyle. 10 A) by Southerners who believed Polk deliberately maneuvered the country into the conflict on behalf of Northern interests. B) by Northerners who believed it was part of a slaveholders' plot to bring in more slave states. C) by businessmen who believed it would hurt commerce with England and Mexico. D) by Democrats from all sections of the nation. E) by Texas Mexicans who favored reunification with Mexico. 11 A) went into law without the president's signature. B) was supported by Southern militants. C) was a compromise acceptable to the South and the North but not the West. D) drew very little attention outside of Congress. E) passed the House by not the Senate. 12 A) John C. Fremont. B) John A. Sutter. C) Nicholas Trist. D) Lewis Cass. E) Stephen W. Kearny. 13 A) California would come in as a free state. B) in the rest of the lands acquired from Mexico, territorial governments would be formed without restrictions on slavery. C) the national government would not pay the Texas debt. D) the slave trade, but not slavery, would be abolished in the District of Columbia. E) None of these answers is correct. 14 A) Henry Clay B) Zachary Taylor C) John C. Calhoun D) Daniel Webster E) Millard Fillmore 15 A) less able politicians. B) more concerned with narrow interest of self-promotion. C) as skilled at compromise as the older leaders. D) interested in broad national issues. E) less pragmatic than their predecessors. 16 A) was a movement to garner support for abolition among the youth of America. B) was a movement to garner support for slavery among the youth of America. C) was intended to divert young Americans' interests toward nationalism and expansion and away from the "transitory" issue of slavery. D) was part of President Franklin Pierce's efforts to further expand the nation's territories to pacify the slavery interests. E) was an unsuccessful diplomatic attempt to acquire Cuba. 17 A) of the rivalry between Chicago and St. Louis as the location of the eastern terminus. B) of Southern fear that a transcontinental railroad would be built through them. C) of Northern concern over new wheat states and depressed grain prices. D) many believed that they could never support a population sufficient to justify statehood. E) of the question of whether they would be slave or free states. 18 A) slavery was dangerous not because of what it did to blacks but because of what it did to whites. B) slavery opened the door to economic opportunity for whites. C) slavery was what made the South a glorious civilization and one that should be admired. D) slave labor would work in Northern factories and should be allowed to expand. E) slavery closed the door to economic opportunity for whites. 19 A) use state authority to interfere with the deportation of fugitive slaves. B) force industries to recognize labor unions. C) allow women to own property. D) extend the right to vote to all tax-paying adults. E) legalize the "underground railroad." 20 A) slavery was good for blacks. B) slavery should be maintained, even though it was not profitable for whites. C) Northern factory workers were better off than slaves, but they deserved to be because they were white. D) blacks were not biologically inferior, they just needed time to catch up culturally. E) slavery enhanced the over-all American economy. 21 A) international pressure was put on President Pierce. B) there was little nationalism in the nation by the 1850s. C) antislavery forces in the North opposed it. D) it was believed we had more territory than we could use. E) established Southern planters feared Cuban competition. 22 A) affirmed Missouri law. B) was a victory for the antislavery movement. C) declared Scott a free man. D) outlawed the interstate slave trade. E) affirmed the South's argument that the Constitution guaranteed the existence of slavery. 23 A) believed slavery was morally wrong but was not an abolitionist. B) had been a Democrat before he became a Republican. C) believed the expansion of slavery would hurt the spread of free labor. D) tried to avoid the slavery issue in his debates with Douglas. E) believed slavery was morally wrong but was not an abolitionist, and had been a Democrat before he became a Republican. 24 A) the election of Lincoln. B) the Pottawatomie Massacre. C) John Brown's raid. D) the Dred Scott decision. E) the split of the Democratic Party at the 1860 convention.
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