Unit 5 Test

Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

Westward expansion from sea to sea. God given right to possess a continent

Question 2

Oregon Trail

Answer 2

Path used primarily for moving westward

Question 3

Nativists

Answer 3

Prioritized native-born rights and did not like immigrants

Question 4

Republicans

Answer 4

New party. Did not want to SPREAD slavery. Very mixed bag

Question 5

Free-soil party

Answer 5

Believed free-laborers in the west. Either to build an all white utopia or to abolish slavery.

Question 6

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 6

Piece of literature showing the horrors of slavery in the form of a fictional story book. Made by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 7

Annexation of Texas

Answer 7

2 Presidents stopped it to avoid a war with Mexico. When it finally happened, it came with a lot of land and the topic of slavery and abolition kept popping up.

Question 8

Mexican-American War

Answer 8

American troops settled on the Rio Grande looking to pick a fight. The mexicans shot at them and the Americans declared war. In the end the Americans won and gained a lot of land.

Question 9

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 9

Established the Rio Grande as the Southern border of texas.
Mexican Cecsion: cedes CA + NM to the US for $15M

Question 10

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 10

-proposed that the land gained from Mexico should be free

Question 11

Ostend Manifesto

Answer 11

Polk offers $100M for cuba from spain. Sends Pierce over to negotiate. Plan gets leaked and they abandon it

Question 12

Caning of Summer

Answer 12

Summer gets beat tf up by Brooks bc he blamed Bleeding Kansas on Butler

Question 13

Compromise of 1850

Answer 13

• NM and UT would remain popular sovereignty
• California free state
  -Fugitive slave law
  -Slave trade banned in D.C.

Question 14

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 14

Slaved are returned to their masters, even in free states

Question 15

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 15

• Stephen douglass said that it would be split into 2, and would be popular sovereignty
  -essentially overturned the compromise of 1820

Question 16

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 16

Fights broke out between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in Kansas.

Question 17

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer 17

-tried to sue his master
-DENIED bc basically said he was property and that they cannot take away property and is not a citizen
-also said compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional

Question 18

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferrt

Answer 18

Believed he was told by god to stop slavery. He used violence. Stole weapons and tried to give them to slaves to start an armed revolution. He was hung.

Question 19

Election of 1860

Answer 19

Lincoln wins without a single southern states. The southern states get scared.

Question 20

Secession

Answer 20

Southern States begin to leave (SC was the first) the union and form the Confederate States of America.

Question 21

Civil War

Answer 21

North wins

Question 22

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 22

Essentially frees slaves in the confederacy. Many of these free people go to the union and even fight for the union.

Question 23

Gettysburg Address

Answer 23

-United nation
-Portrayed the struggle against slavery as the fulfillment of America’s democratic ideals

Question 24

13th Amendment

Answer 24

Abolished Slavery

Question 25

14th Amendment

Answer 25

Gave former slaves citizenship

Question 26

15th Amendment

Answer 26

Gave black men the right to vote

Question 27

James Polk

Answer 27

President. started the Mexican-American war. Democrat. Loved Manifest Destiny.

Question 28

Zachary Taylor

Answer 28

General of the troop that settled at the Rio Grande

Question 29

Stephen A. Douglass

Answer 29

proposed the Kansas Nebraska act

Question 30

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 30

wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 31

John Brown

Answer 31

Abolitionist who fought with violence

Question 32

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 32

Republican president during the civil war. His views on slavery change over time

Question 33

Jefferson Davis

Answer 33

President of the CSA

Question 34

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 34

Union General

Question 35

Robert Lee

Answer 35

Confederate General

Question 36

William Sherman

Answer 36

Union General (march to the sea)

Question 37

Andrew Johnson

Answer 37

Vice president. Southern. Pretty racist. Took over after Lincoln died. Vetoed bills around Civil Rights.

Question 38

Fredrick Douglass

Answer 38

Abolitionist speaker

Question 39

Sojourner Truth

Answer 39

Abolitionist. Former slave. Activist for Civil rights, women's suffrage, and temperance.

Question 40

Harriet Tubman

Answer 40

Key person in assisting others along the underground railway.

Question 41

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 41

Assassinated Lincoln

Question 42

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 42

Women's suffrage activist who was enraged by the 15th amendment. Co-creator of the National Woman's Suffrage Association