Unit 6: Manifest Destiny and the 1850s

Question 1

13 Colonies:

Answer 1

-War/Treaty
-Britain
-1783

Question 2

Florida Territory:

Answer 2

-Treaty and Purchase
-Spain
-1819

Question 3

Old NW to the Mississippi:

Answer 3

-Treaty
-Britain
-1783

Question 4

Louisiana Territory:

Answer 4

-Purchase
-France
-1803

Question 5

Texas:

Answer 5

-Annexation
-Mexico
-1845

Question 6

Oregon Country:

Answer 6

-Treaty
-Britain
-1846

Question 7

American Southwest:

Answer 7

-War/Treaty/Purchase
-Mexico
-1848

Question 8

Which new states/territories were open to slavery? (3)

Answer 8

-Texas
-New Mexico Territory
-Utah Territory

Question 9

Which new states/territories didn’t allow slavery? (2)

Answer 9

-California
-Minnesota Territory

Question 10

The idea that white Americans were destined (by God) to occupy all of North America:

Answer 10

Manifest Destiny

Question 11

What were the reasons/causes of western expansion in the 1840s? (5)

Answer 11

1. Age of Jackson
2. Population Increase in the East
3. Introduction of Key Technologies
4. Second Great Awakening
5. Role of Fed. Gov.

Question 12

Which groups were opposed to expansion and why?

Answer 12

Native Americans, Abolitionists, Northern Congressmen, Slaves and the Whig party because they feared slavery would be extended in the west

Question 13

Describe the Pacific Northwest settlers:

Answer 13

-Mountain men
-Went for the fur trade
-Developed maps and guides

Question 14

Describe the Oregon settlers:

Answer 14

-Settled because of land and milder climate
-Had farms

Question 15

Describe the Californian settlers:

Answer 15

-Miners
-Went for the gold

Question 16

How did Texas come under the US control?

Answer 16

The military settled there for expansion

Question 17

Describe the Mormons:

Answer 17

-Settled in Utah
-Went for religious freedom

Question 18

Describe the Mormons:

Answer 18

-Settled in Utah
-Went for religious freedom

Question 19

-Supports CA as a free state
-Ban Slavery in NM and Utah
-Demand an end to slavery in DC

Answer 19

The North

Question 20

-Congress cannot ban slavery
-Allow CA to be free if other states are slave states

Answer 20

The South

Question 21

Describe the Compromise of 1850 (5):

Answer 21

1.CA was a free state
2. Utah and NM could be open to slavery (popular sovereignty)
3. Slavery allowed in DC
4. No slave trade in DC
5. Stronger Fugitive Slave Law

Question 22

Who wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?

Answer 22

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

Question 23

-Began to frame slavery as a moral issue
-Questioned the morality of the fugitive slave law
-Reinvigorated the Abolitionist movement

Answer 23

The North’s reaction to UTC

Question 24

-Claimed the author was biased since she was a Northerner
-Believed Northerners wanted to destroy the Southern way of life
-Wrote pro-slavery lit in response

Answer 24

The South’s reaction to UTC

Question 25

What political parties helped form the Republican Party? (3)

Answer 25

The Whigs, Liberty Party, and the Free Soil Party

Question 26

What were the main beliefs of the Republican Party? (3)

Answer 26

1. Protect slavery in the South
2. Restrict slavery from spreading to the West
3. Use federal law to assert authority in the territories

Question 27

Why was Bleeding Kansas so violent?

Answer 27

Pro and Anti Slavery voters went to Kansas to vote and violence broke out

Question 28

-Scott should be free
-African Americans can legally sue for their freedom

Answer 28

The North’s view on the Dred Scott Case

Question 29

-Scott should stay a slave
-He is not a citizen

Answer 29

The South’s view on the Dred Scott Case

Question 30

What was the outcome of the Dred Scott case?

Answer 30

Slavery can exist anywhere

Question 31

-Douglas wins the election
-Splits the Democrats into the North and South
-Lincoln gains national attention
-Republican Party was defined

Answer 31

The outcomes of the Lincoln/Douglas Debates

Question 32

Who was John Brown?

Answer 32

An abolitionist who was involved with Bleeding Kansas

Question 33

-Viewed Brown as a dangerous radical and murderer
-Believed Northerners were behind the plot
-Created the Confederate Army

Answer 33

The South’s view of the Harpers Ferry Raid

Question 34

-Mixed feelings among the population
-Some viewed him as a martyr for a worthy cause
-Others disapproved of his tactics

Answer 34

The North’s view of the Harpers Ferry Raid

Question 35

Who were the 1860 presidential election candidates? (4)

Answer 35

Lincoln, Breckinridge, Douglas, J. Bell

Question 36

What were Lincoln’s beliefs? (3)

Answer 36

-Restrict slavery in the West
-Secession is illegal
-Do not interfere with slavery where states existed

Question 37

What were Breckinridge’s beliefs? (1)

Answer 37

Uphold slavery/state’s rights (secession is a legal right)

Question 38

What were Douglas’s beliefs? (1)

Answer 38

Popular Sovereignty

Question 39

What were Bell’s beliefs? (1)

Answer 39

Uphold Federal Law

Question 40

What was the result of the 1860 election?

Answer 40

Lincoln wins and the Confederacy was formed (SC was first to succeed)

Question 41

Oversaw the largest territorial expansion in American history:

Answer 41

James Polk

Question 42

Led an army that defeated Mexico in texas:

Answer 42

Sam Houston

Question 43

Confederate general during the Civil War:

Answer 43

Robert E. Lee

Question 44

Forged the Compromise of 1850:

Answer 44

Henry Clay

Question 45

Wrote “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”:

Answer 45

Henry David Thoreau

Question 46

Created the Kansas-Nebraska Act:

Answer 46

Stephen Douglas