American History Alan Brinkley (Chapter 13) Flashcards

5703622588	The settlement of western territories	divided the North and the South over the issue of slavery in the territories.	0
5703622589	By the end of the 1840s, the territory of the U.S. included	nearly the entire territory of the current continental U.S.	1
5703622590	The idea that God and history had selected America to expand its boundaries over the continent of North America was known as	Manifest Destiny	2
5703622591	When the new republic of Texas requested annexation by the U.S.	Americans in the North opposed acquiring a large new slave territory	3
5703622592	American immigrants in Oregon	outnumbered the British by 1850	4
5703622593	Immigrants going West on the great overland trails faced the least danger from	hostile Indians	5
5703622594	The following was NOT part of President Polk's policy regarding New Mexico and California	ceasing all diplomatic contact w/ Mexico	6
5703622595	By combining the Oregon & Texas issue in 1844, Democrats hoped to	appeal to both Northern and Southerner expansionists	7
5703622596	Travelers on the Overland Trail	often migrated as families that practiced traditional gender division of labor	8
5703622597	The war with Mexico was criticized	by Northerners who believed it was part of a slaveholders' plot to bring in more slave states	9
5703622598	The Wilmot Proviso	passed the House but not the Senate	10
5703622599	The "overlord" of the Sacramento River Valley and the man on whose land gold was discovered was	John A. Sutter	11
5703622600	The Compromise of 1850 did NOT include	the national government would not pay the Texas debt	12
5703622601	Zachary Taylor	did not support the Compromise of 1850	13
5703622602	The new leaders emerging in Congress after the Compromise of 1850 were	more concerned with narrow interest of self-promotion	14
5703622603	The "Young America" movement	was intended to divert young Americans' interests toward nationalism and expansionism and away from the "transitory" slave issue	15
5703622604	The question of statehood for Kansas and Nebraska became a critical issue because	of the question whether they would be slave or free states	16
5703622605	Northerners who accepted the concepts of "free soil" and "free labor" believed	slavery was dangerous not because of what it did to blacks but because of what it did to whites	17
5703622606	Through personal liberty laws, Northern states attempted to	use state authority to interfere with the deportation of fugitive slaves	18
5703622607	Southerners who believed in the "positive-good" theory argued	slavery was good for blacks	19
5703622608	American efforts to buy or seize Cuba failed because	antislavery forces in the North opposed it	20
5703622609	The Dred Scott decision	affirmed the South's argument that the Constitution guaranteed the existence of slavery	21
5703622610	Abraham Lincoln	believed slavery was morally wrong but he was not an abolitionist, and had been a Democrat before he became a Republican	22
5703622611	The single event that did the most to convince white Southerners they could not live safely in the Union was	John Brown's raid	23