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APush Chapter 18
Chapter 18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Popular sovereignty was the idea that | the people of a territory should determine for themselves whether or not to permit slavery. |
| In the election of 1848, the response of the Whig and Democratic parties to the rising contoversy over slavery was | an attempt to ignore the issue by shoving it out ofsight. |
| Rapid formation of an effective state government in Califomia seemed especially urgent because | there was no legal authority to suppress the violence and lawlessness that accompanied the Califomia gold rush |
| he proposed direct admission of California into the Union, without passing through territorial status, was dangerously controversial because | California's admission as a free state would destroy the equal balance of slave and free states in the U.S. Senate, |
| Southerners hated the Underground Railroad and demanded a stronger federal Fugitive Slave Law especially because | northern toleration of slave runaways reflected a moral judgment against slavery. |
| Senator Daniel Webster's fundamental view regarding the issue of slavery expansion into the West was that | there was no need to legislate because climate and geography guaranteed that plantation slavery could not exist in the West |
| It appeared that the Compromise of 1850 would fail to be enacted into law when | President Zachary Taylor suddenly died and the new president Fillmore backed the Compromise. |
| Under the terms of the Compromise of 1850 | California was admitted to the Union as a free state, and the issue of slavery in Utah and New Mexico territories would be left up to popular sovereignty |
| The greatest winner in the Compromise of 1850 was | the North. |
| The most significant effect of the Fugitive Slave Law, passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, was | a sharp rise in northern antislavery feeling. |
| The conflict over slavery following the election of 1852 led shortly to the | death of the Whig Party |
| Southerners seeking to expand the territory of slavery undertook filibustering military expeditions to acquire | Nicaragua and Cuba |
| The primary goal of the Treaty of Kanagawa , which Commodore Matthew Perry signed with Japan in 1854, was | opening Japan to American trade. |
| The Gadsden Purchase was ftmdamentally designed to | permit the construction of a transcontinental railroad along a southern route. |
| Northerners especially resented Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act because it | repealed the Missouri Compromise prohibiting slavery in northern territories. |
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