1. Chapter 10 Powerpoint Review

2. Name one reason people started settling West?
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3. Answer - I To escape religious persecution
Prospect of owning their own farms
The belief in Manifest Destiny
Answer - I

4. Define Manifest Destiny
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5. The belief that it is Gods will that Americans extend and civilize the West
Answer – II

6. What did Native Americans fear the most because of Western settlement?
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7. That the settlers would deplete the buffalo population that they used and worshipped as part of their culture
Answer – III

8. How did Americans deal with Natives who refused to move off their land?
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9. Use force to remove the Native American from their home
Answer – II

10. What was the treaty called that was negotiated between Natives and the American government that promised certain land would never be taken away from Native Americans?
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11. Treaty of Laramie
Answer – III

12. What was the name of the people who headed west, got lost in the Sierra Mountains, and had to turn to cannabilism to survive?
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13. The Donner Party
Answer - III

14. What was the biggest danger facing travelers on the Oregon Trail?
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15. Disease
Answer-II

16. How did Mexico encourage U.S. citizens to move to Texas?
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17. Promised them tax exemptions for the first ten years
Answer – III

18. Why did many Mexicans distrust new American settlers? Name one.
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19. New American settlers refused to learn Spanish or convert to Catholicism. The Mexicans also distrusted the American lifestyle.
Answer - III

20. Why did 200 Texans escape to the Alamo where they became outnumbered and were eventually killed by Mexican troops after a 13 day standoff?
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21. They were fighting for their independence from Mexico.
Answer - II

22. Why did members of Congress oppose admitting Texas into the Union?
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23. They knew Texas would become a slave state and northern delegates did not want to offset the balance of power in Congress
Answer – III

24. What event will ultimately cause the Mexican American War?
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25. The acquisition of Texas into the U.S. as a state
Answer - II

26. What treaty ended the war with Mexico that will force Mexico to give up most of what is now Southwest U.S., reset the border between U.S. and Mexico as the Rio Grande river, and gave Mexico $15 million and the promise to pay off some of their national debt?
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27. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Answer - III

28. What country did we negotiate with to receive Oregon?
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29. Great Britain
Answer - III

30. What was the biggest problem with the new land acquired from Mexico in the Mexican American War?
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31. What territory would allow slavery – if it were to be allowed at all
Answer-I

32. What did David Wilmot propose the laws should be about slavery in the new land acquired from Mexico in the Wilmot Proviso?
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33. That slavery should be outlawed in the new territories
Answer - II

34. What is the term for letting each new territory decide on its own if slavery would be permitted or not?
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35. Popular sovereignty
Answer-I

36. What were the effects of popular sovereignty? Name one.
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37. Removed slavery from national politics, it was democratic, abolitionists still weren’t happy because it denied African Americans their right not to be enslaved
Answer- II

38. What was the name of the new political party that strongly opposed slavery in 1848?
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39. The Free-Soil Party
Answer- II

40. Why did California have to apply for statehood?
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41. The population explosion as a result of people moving west for gold
Answer - III

42. What was one of the main clauses in the Compromise of 1850?
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43. Answer -II 1. CA was entered into the Union as a free state
2. It was against the law to buy or sell slaves in Washington D.C.
3. The Fugitive Slave Act was instated
4. The rest of the territory acquired from Mexico would use popular sovereignty to decide upon the use of slavery
Answer -II

44. What was the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book that helped to change Northern outlook on African Americans and slavery?
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45. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Answer-I

46. What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?
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47. 1. Said any African American accused of being a runaway would be arrested and brought to a federal commissioner – those found guilty were to return south immediately
2. Made it so that any white person could be arrested if they didn’t assist in the capture of a runaway slave
3. It greatly angered the North, caused people who were indifferent to slavery want to end it b/c of laws
Answer -III

48. Why did new settlers out west want a railroad that would connect East to West?
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49. To make travel cheaper and easier
Answer - II

50. Why was the Missouri Compromise repealed?
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51. The government needed southern senators to ratify the new state of Nebraska in order to build the transcontinental railroad
Answer-II

52. What did the Kansas- Nebraska Act do?
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53. Repealed the Missouri Compromise allowing slavery to exist in the new territories in Nebraska and Kansas
Answer-I

54. What was Bleeding Kansas?
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55. The name of one of the first battlegrounds of the Civil War where people became violent over the issue of slavery in Kansas
Answer -III

56. What new antislavery party formed as a result of other political parties destruction over the Kansas Nebraska Act?
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57. The Republican Party
Answer-II

58. Describe James Buchanan’s campaign and political beliefs
Describe James Buchanan’s campaign and political beliefs. Name at least one characteristic.
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59. 1. He did not take a stand/side on the Kansas Nebraska Act
2. His supporters told people he could only save the Union- if Republican was elected president the South would secede
3. His record in Congress showed he would compromise with the South
4. Suggested the Supreme Court should decide the issue of slavery in the new territories
Answer - III

60. What was the final ruling in the Dred Scott case?
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61. A slave is property-not a citizen- therefore has no rights under the Constitution
Answer- I

62. What were the views on slavery in the new territories for Lincoln
What were the views on slavery in the new territories for Lincoln? For Douglas?
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63. Lincoln – opposed spread of slavery in new territories
Douglas – believed they should use popular sovereignty to decide
Answer-III

64. What was the goal of John Brown?
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65. To arm enslaved people and encourage them to rebel against their slaveholders
Answer - I

66. Why did Southerners blame John Brown’s raid on Republicans?
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67. Because Republicans were an antislavery political party and many southerners believed the Republicans encouraged John Brown since they both opposed slavery
Answer- II

68. Why was the Democratic Party torn apart of the issue of slavery?
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69. They had different views on whether to ( and how to) allow slavery in the new territories
Answer – II

70. Why did the South secede after Lincoln won president?
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71. They saw it as a victory for abolitionists because Lincoln was a Republican and Republicans stood for antislavery
Answer – I

72. What was one of the elements of Crittenden’s Compromise?
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73. 1. Guaranteed slavery where it already existed
2. The Missouri Compromise would be reinstated
3. Slavery would be banned north of the Missouri Compromise line, and protected south of it
Answer - II

74. Who was president of the Confederacy?
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75. Jefferson Davis
Answer - I

76. What was one of the goal’s of Lincoln at the beginning of the war?
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77. To convince border states to stay with the Union
Answer - III