1. Why didn’t the United States immediately annex Texas? a) Concerns about inciting war…

1. Why didn’t the United States immediately annex Texas?
a)
Concerns about inciting war with Spain
b)
The United States annexed Texas as soon as the revolution was over
c)
Concerns about the imbalance of adding a large slave state
d)
The U.S. feared that doing so would provoke war with Mexico
2. The values that defined the cult of true womanhood was not expected of women who settled west.
A. True
B. False
3. Why did Andrew Jackson, and most Americans, support Indian Removal?
a)
It gave white farmers access to fertile soil.
b)
It made it easier for Indians to convert to Christianity.
c)
It freed up land for mining.
d)
All of the above
4. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ______.
a)
gave Mexico the right to send immigrants into the western United States
b)
gave territory to the US from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean
c)
made Mexico a U.S. protectorate
d)
gave the United States the right to intervene in Mexican diplomatic affairs
5. Mexico agreed to allow the United States to annex Texas if they would also agree to take New Mexico, Arizona, and California.
A. true
b. false
6. A major cause of the crisis in Kansas was the ______.
a)
resistance of Native Americans to white settlement
b)
immigration of numerous European settlers
c)
consistent economic instability in the newly settled west
d)
interference from proslavery and antislavery interests in the territory
7. The new fugitive slave law from the Compromise of 1850 ______.
a)
led many northerners who were not abolitionists to become outraged at the sight of harmless humans forced to return to slavery
b)
weakened abolitionists’ ability to render aid to fugitive slaves
c)
drew New England to actively engage in helping capture fugitive slaves
d)
destroyed the underground railroad
8. Which happened LAST?
a)
Lincoln was elected president.
b)
the Attack on Fort Sumter
c)
John Brown’s Raid
d)
South Carolina seceded from the Union.
9.
Scott v. Sandford
ruled _____.
a)
that Black Americans could not be citizens of the United States
b)
that Black Americans were considered citizens in the US Constitution
c)
that Dred Scott had the right to marry and sue for his freedom
d)
that the Missouri Compromise was constitutional
10. The book
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
was written by Harriet Tubman.
A. True
B. False
11. The Wilmot Proviso ______.
a)
proposed a tax cut to stimulate the economy in the west after the Mexican American War
b)
called for no slavery in any territory gained through the Mexican-American War
c)
banned Sunday mail deliveries to protect federal workers from Indian raids
d)
called for charges of sedition for individuals denying the ability to move slavery to the west
12. Democrat “Doughfaces” were accused of being pro-slavery.
A. True
B. False
13. Not one enslaved person was freed by John Brown’s raid.
A. True
B. False