MANIFEST DESTINY
Manifest Destiny was based on all of the following except?
1. Anglo-Saxon racial superiority justified American absorption of inferior peoples and their lands
2. New lands would extend the domain of free government and free enterprise
3. Conquest of new territories would prove American military superiority
4. America had a specially ordained mission in the world
Conquest of new territories would prove American military superiority
1. Slavery was worth more in terms of investments than all the land in the south
2. As slavery spread, wealth and power became more equally shared among the various social classes of southerners
3. It was slavery that made possible the South's "mass production" of agriculture products for export
4. Only a minority of Southerners owned slaves
As slavery spread, wealth and power became more equally shared among the various social classes of southerners
The Senate rejected annexing Texas drawn up by Secretary of State Calhoun because?
He Defended annexation as a way to protect and defend slavery
Politics based on the idea of Manifest Destiny led to all of the following except?
The Decline of the Democratic Party
Which early abolitionist was the creator of The Liberator, an anti-slavery publication?
William Lloyd Garrison
The prominent issue in national politics in the 1840s was?
Manifest Destiny
What lesson did white southerners learn from Nat Turner's Rebellion?
That slave insurrections were an ever-present threat
What was the cause of the increasingly tense relations between the Mexican government and the American residents in Texas after 1830?
1. The Instability of relations with Mexico
2. Geographic boundary disputes
3. Increasing American immigration
4. All of the Above
All of these above
William Henry Harrison
Approximately how man slaves would half of all slave-owning families have owned?
Fewer than 5
The most divisive and controversial aspect of the slavery issue during the first half of the 19th century was?
The status of slavery in the territories (old and new)
Antislavery sentiment underlay the formation in 1840 of the?
Liberty Party
According to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the United States?
Gained California and New Mexico
Which of the following best describes Tyler's political views?
Democrat in Whig Clothing?
Between 1830 and 1860, many southerners came to defend slavery because of all of the following reasons except?
1. The growth of the cotton economy made slavery very profitable again
2. They saw how the North silenced those with pro-slavery opinions while they remained tolerant of opposition
3. They believed slaves were better off than the poor unfortunate people who worked in northern factories
4. The attacks of the abolitionists pushed them into defending the southern way of life
They saw how the North silenced those with pro-slavery opinions while they remained tolerant of the opposition
Advocates of Manifest Destiny claimed the motive for territorial expansion was to?
Extend American Liberty to new territories
The southern demand that slavery be allowed to expand into the territories seems to have been motivated by the?
Fear that free territories could be used as bases for spreading abolitionism into the South
Had it passed, the Wilmont Proviso would have?
Prohibited slavery in any territory won from Mexico
The main issue in James K. Polk's 1844 presidential campaign was his commitment to?
Territorial expansion of the United States
White Southerners who did not own slaves supported gradual abolition
False