8178507871 | The Free soil party was important for this reason? | It was the first anti-slavery party | 0 | |
8178507872 | About what percent of Southerners did not own slaves at all? | 85-90% | 1 | |
8178507873 | By the civil war, the most cotton plantations were located here | Mississippi and Alabama | 2 | |
8178507874 | Cotton was not good for Southern society for all of these reasons except | It divided southern society | 3 | |
8178507875 | The black slave made up about this percent of southern society | 40% | 4 | |
8178507876 | The section of southern society that fought the hardest to maintain slavery at the beginning of the civil war was | Non-slave owning whites (poor white trash) | 5 | |
8178507877 | Tyler opposed the Whig policies in all of the following issues except | None of the above | 6 | |
8178507878 | Which area was least in favor of the annexation of Texas by the US | Canada | 7 | |
8178507879 | The election in which the primary question was manifest destiny | 1844 | 8 | |
8178507880 | The country with no claims to the lands of the Oregon territory | France | 9 | |
8178507881 | Southern politicians believed which of the following about the political effect of cotton except | The US economy did not rely on cotton sales and therefore did not need the South | 10 | |
8178507882 | The least true explanation of slave conditions in the south before the civil war would be | Conditions were horrible everywhere | 11 | |
8178507883 | The least common and successful form of slave protests of slavery in the south was | Slave rebellions | 12 | |
8178507884 | The most important religious group for the advancement of the abolitionist movement in the north after the 1830s were | Unitarians | 13 | |
8178507885 | The least influential northern activist who only wanted to keep slavery from moving into the territories was | Abraham Lincoln | 14 | |
8178507886 | This issue forced slavery back into congress and increased southern agitation on the slavery issue in the 1830s and 1840s | Tariff of 1832 | 15 | |
8178507887 | Polk as president would not be described as | Brilliant statesman | 16 | |
8178507888 | Polk compromised in this area so he could concentrate his efforts during the Mexican War. | Oregon | 17 | |
8178507889 | The most important battle of the Mexican war (1846) was | Buena Vista | 18 | |
8178507890 | The 2nd great awakening was a religious revival of the 1810s, 1820s, and 1830s which called for | Increased social consciousness and involvement | 19 | |
8178507891 | David Wilmont | Wrote proviso; kept slavery from territories won in the Mexican war | 20 | |
8178507892 | Daniel Webster | Secretary of State, signed compromise of Maine | 21 | |
8178507893 | Stephen Douglass | Champion of popular sovereignty | 22 | |
8178507894 | John C. Calhoun | 23 | ||
8178507895 | Oregon | Settled in a favorable compromise at the 49th parallel | 24 | |
8178507896 | Texas | Entrance into the union was very divisive | 25 | |
8178507897 | Maine | Settled peacefully by a treaty with GB&US | 26 | |
8178507898 | Winfield Scott | Most distinguished general in the Mexican war; invaded Mexico City to end war | 27 | |
8178507899 | Zachary Taylor | Hero of Buena Vista | 28 | |
8178507900 | Sam Houston | Mexican war hero famous for the battle of San Jacinto | 29 | |
8178507901 | John C. Fremont | War hero that led the bear flag revolt in California | 30 | |
8178507902 | Dorothea Dix | Leading abolitionist and social reformer (insane asylums) | 31 | |
8178507903 | Wendell Phillips | Great awakening orator and abolitionist preacher | 32 | |
8178507904 | Denmark Vesey | Leader of one of the bloodiest slave rebellions in 1811 | 33 | |
8178507905 | Sojourner Truth | Former female slave and abolitionist | 34 | |
8178507906 | Define Manifest Destiny | 19th century doctrine that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable, it was their divine duty. | 35 | |
8178507907 | How did the Northern views on slavery change after 1830? | The North criticized the South on their slaves because after the Second Great Awakening, the North wanted to do social action that would improve the world. Many northerners became abolitionists. | 36 | |
8178507908 | How did cotton lead the North and South to go in different directions economically? | The North was the largest cotton purchaser because of the textiles, and these profits spurred industrial growths. It diversified the economy of the North as well. In the South, cotton was the main crop that they could make a large profit from. The whole world depended on it. If it failed, the Southern economy would greatly plummet because they would have nothing else to make money off of. | 37 | |
8178507909 | Why was Polk the most effective President of the Ante-Bellum period? | Polk was for the expansion of the US under the idea of Manifest Destiny. He wanted to annex California and Texas, so the US could expand from sea to shining sea. He was also very popular with the people, and listened to new ideas. | 38 |
AP US History chapter 17 Flashcards
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