Americans living in Texas declared independence when

Mexico made slavery illegal, Mexico began taxing the Americans without their consent, Mexico forced them to convert to Roman Catholicism

What was a result of the Dred Scott case?

The North united behind the anti-slavery movement.

Choose the best description of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

A novel showing slavery from a slaves perspective

The Wilmot Proviso would have

made slavery illegal in all territories gained form Mexico

What was the main issue in the election of 1860?

Should Slavery be allowed to expand westward?

Popular sovereignty is the idea

new states can vote on whether or not to allow slavery

Dorothea Dix was known for

Helping reform prisons in the early 1800s

According to the Compromise of 1850...

The slave trade was banned in D.C.

Why did Polk want war with Mexico?

To take California and other lands

In the Missouri Compromise

Missouri was entered as a slave state, Maine as a free state

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1
President Polk sent what General to Mexico, who started the Mexican-American war?
Robert E. Lee
Millard Filmore
Zachary Taylor
Martin van Buren
2
What famous abolitionists was responsible for the raid on Harper's Ferry?
Harriet Tubman
John Brown
William Garrison
Frederick Douglas
3
What American figure brokered the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
John C. Calhoun
4
Americans living in Texas declared independence when
Mexico told the Americans to leave
Mexico made slavery illegal
Mexico began taxing the Americans without their consent
Mexico forced them to convert to Roman Catholicism
5
What was a result of the Dred Scott case?
Dred Scott became free
It led to increase support of the Democratic Party in the North
The North united behind the anti-slavery movement.
The spread of slavery was limited
6
Choose the best description of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
A pro-slavery document arguing slavery was a "positive-good"
It was a series of essays arguing for the end of slavery.
A novel showing slavery from a slaves perspective
An account of a Kansas settler during "Bleeding Kansas"
7
The Wilmot Proviso would have
made slavery illegal in all territories gained form Mexico
established popular sovereignty in all the states
paid 10 million to Mexico for land taken in the war
Made slavery legal in all territories gained from Mexico
8
What was the main issue in the election of 1860?
What should be done with California?
Should Slavery be allowed to expand westward?
Should slavery be abolished?
Should SC secede from the Union?
9
Popular sovereignty is the idea
the president is elected by the electoral college
states can vote for their own elected leaders
slavery is legal everywhere, unless people vote against it.
new states can vote on whether or not to allow slavery
10
What was the main issue in the election of 1844 (when Polk won)?
Should slavery be abolished?
Should the tariff be abolished?
Would the US annex Texas
Should slavery be expanded westward?
11
The most famous battle for Texas independence happened at
New Orleans
The Alamo
California
The Rio Grande river
12
What was the main goal of the Temperance Movement?
To encourage Americans to become more religious
To abolish slavery
To curb American drinking
To support wome's rights such as divorce.
13
Dorothea Dix was known for
being a famous abolitionist
Helping reform prisons in the early 1800s
being a distant relative of Mrs. Dix, your Spanish teacher
Sparking the women's rights movement
14
What part of the map was sold purchased from France in 1803?
C
E
B
A
15
The Kansas and Nebraska Act resulted in
A pro/anti slavery conflict called "Bleeding Kansas"
Increased popularity of the Republican party in the North
Increased tensions between the North and the South
All of the above
16
According to the Compromise of 1850...
Maine became a free state
Slavery was banned North of the 36 30 parallel
California would become a slave state
The slave trade was banned in D.C.
17
The land taken from Mexico in the Mexican-American war was known as
The Louisiana Purchase
The Gadsden purchase
The Mexican land deal
The Mexican Cession
18
Why did Polk want war with Mexico?
The Mexican army represented a threat to America's national security
To end slavery in the area
To take back lands taken from the US by Mexico
To take California and other lands
19
In the Missouri Compromise
Slavery permitted everywhere in the US
Maine was entered as a slave state
Missouri was entered as a free state
Missouri was entered as a slave state, Maine as a free state

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