Unit 5

Question 1

Slave Codes

Answer 1

Laws in the South that controlled enslaved people’s lives and limited their rights.

Question 2

Manifest Destiny

Answer 2

Belief that the U.S. was meant to expand across North America.

Question 3

Stephen Austin

Answer 3

Led American settlers into Texas under Mexican rule

Question 4

Antonio López de Santa Anna

Answer 4

Mexican leader during the Texas Revolution and the Mexican-American War

Question 5

Sam Houston

Answer 5

Led Texas to independence; first president of the Republic of Texas.

Question 6

Alamo

Answer 6

Famous battle where Texans were defeated; used as motivation (“Remember the Alamo!”).

Question 7

John Tyler

Answer 7

President before Polk; pushed for the annexation of Texas.

Question 8

James K. Polk

Answer 8

Expansionist president; led U.S. into the Mexican-American War.

Question 9

“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”

Answer 9

Slogan demanding the U.S. claim Oregon territory up to the 54°40′ line.

Question 10

Mexican Cession

Answer 10

Land the U.S. gained from Mexico after the war (CA, NV, UT, AZ, NM, etc.).

Question 11

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 11

Ended the Mexican-American War; set the Rio Grande as Texas border.

Question 12

Wilmot Proviso

Answer 12

Proposed to ban slavery in land won from Mexico; never passed.

Question 13

Ostend Manifesto

Answer 13

Secret plan for the U.S. to buy Cuba from Spain (and possibly take it by force).

Question 14

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

Answer 14

U.S. and Britain agreed not to control future Central American canal routes

Question 15

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 15

Small strip of land bought from Mexico for building a railroad

Question 16

Free-Soil Movement

Answer 16

Wanted new western territories to be free from slavery (not abolitionists).

Question 17

Compromise of 1850

Answer 17

California free; stronger Fugitive Slave Act; popular sovereignty in UT & NM.

Question 18

Fugitive Slave Law

Answer 18

Required Americans to return escaped enslaved people to owners.

Question 19

Harriet Tubman

Answer 19

Former enslaved woman; conductor of the Underground Railroad

Question 20

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe

Answer 20

Anti-slavery novel that increased Northern anger at slavery.

Question 21

Impending Crisis of the South

Answer 21

Book arguing slavery hurt poor white Southerners.

Question 22

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 22

Let settlers vote on slavery (popular sovereignty); caused Bleeding Kansas.

Question 23

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 23

Idea that people living in a territory decide if it allows slavery.

Question 24

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 24

Violent fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas.

Question 25

John Brown’s Raid

Answer 25

Abolitionist tried to start a slave revolt at Harpers Ferry; failed.

Question 26

Caning of Senator Sumner

Answer 26

Southern congressman beat Northern senator in Congress over slavery tensions.

Question 27

Republican Party

Answer 27

Formed in 1850s; wanted to stop the spread of slavery westward

Question 28

Lecompton Constitution

Answer 28

Pro-slavery constitution proposed for Kansas; rejected.

Question 29

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Answer 29

Supreme Court ruled enslaved people are not citizens and Congress can’t ban slavery in territories.

Question 30

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 30

Republican leader who opposed spread of slavery; elected president in 1860

Question 31

Freeport Doctrine

Answer 31

Stephen Douglas said territories could still block slavery despite the Dred Scott ruling.

Question 32

Harpers Ferry

Answer 32

Site of John Brown’s raid on a federal arsenal.

Question 33

Breckinridge

Answer 33

Southern Democrat candidate in 1860 who supported expanding slavery.

Question 34

Border States

Answer 34

Slave states that stayed in the Union (MD, DE, KY, MO).

Question 35

Fort Sumter

Answer 35

First shots of the Civil War; Confederate attack on a U.S. fort in South Carolina.