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APUSH Chapter 17 & 18

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John Tyler joined the Whig party because he
could not stomach the dictator-like qualities of Andrew Jackson
One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation
could plunge the country into armed conflict
In the presidential election of 1844, the Whig candidate, Henry Clay
favored annexation of Texas but wanted to postpone it, in an attempt to appeal to both sides of the issue
In his quest for California, President James K. Polk
first advocated buying the area from Mexico
During the Mexican War, the Polk administration was called on several times to respond to spot resolutions, indicating where American blood had been shed to provoke the war. The resolutions were frequently introduced by
Abraham Lincoln
The United States' victory in the Mexican War resulted in all of the following except
Acquisition of the Oregon territory
The Wilmot Proviso, if adopted, would have
Prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican War
In 1848, what third party, led by former President Martin Van Buren, managed to divert enough votes from Lewis Cass in New York in order to hand the election to Zachary Taylor?
Free Soil Party
According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by
the people in any given territory
The public liked popular sovereignty because it
Fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination
The south grew increasingly worried about the future of slavery because
The admission of California as a free state might permanently tip the political balance against them
The issue of runaway slaves was important to the South because
The loss of property was significant, but the loss of honor was felt more
Of those people going to California during the gold rush
a distressingly high proportion of them were lawless men
Harriet Tubman gained fame
By helping slaves escape to the North, especially Canada
After his Seventh of March speech, in which he gave his support for the Compromise of 1850, Daniel Webster
Was condemned harshly by the northern abolitionists who regarded him as a traitor
In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was
To be decided by popular sovereignty
The man nominated by the Whig party for president in 1852 was
Winfield Scott
The fatal split in the Whig party in 1852 occurred over
Slavery
The election of 1852 was significant because it
marked the end of the Whig party
The man who opened Japan to the United States was
Matthew Perry
After the Gadsden Purchase, a southern route for the transcontinental railroad seemed the best because
The railroad would be easier to build in this area
Stephen A. Douglas's plans for deciding the slavery question in the Kansas-Nebraska scheme required repeal of the
Missouri Compromise
Undoubtedly the most durable offspring of the Kansas-Nebraska blunder was
the new Republican political party
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