Exam 17: Renewing the Sectional Struggle

The text's authors observe that during the debate in 1850 on slavery and newly acquired territories from the Mexican War, John C. Calhoun, hoping to save the Union, proposed "an utterly unworkable scheme of electing two presidents, one from the North and one from the South, each wielding a veto." Explain why such an arrangement would have been "utterly unworkable," particularly in light of the contemporary political conflict over slavery, its westward territorial expansion, the strong political support for slavery's indefinite legal perpetuation in the South, and the fierce debate in the country overall concerning foreign policy issues related to Manifest Destiny.

In the 1848 presidential election, the Democratic and Whig parties

Identify and state the historical significance of the Free Soil party.

Identify and state the historical significance of the Treaty of Kangawa.

Identify and state the historical significance of the Treaty of Wanghia.

For a short time in the 1850s, William Walker, an American adventurer, seized political and military control of

Identify and state the historical significance of Lewis Cass.

The fatal split in the Whig party in 1852 occurred over

To what extent did the building of the first transcontinental railroad linking the East and the West contribute to the wrenching apart of the North and the South?

____ argued, during the debate of 1850, that there was a higher law than the Constitution that compelled him to demand the exclusion of slavery from the territories.

In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories was

Identify and state the historical significance of Caleb Cushing.

Of those people going to California during the gold rush

In the debates of 1850, Senator William H. Seward, as a representative of the northern Young Guard, argued that

Presidential candidates in the 1848 election included

Identify and state the historical significance of filibustering.

Identify and state the historical significance of "personal liberty laws".

On July 3, 1844, the first formal diplomatic agreement between the United States and China was the

The two major parties kept the focus on the 1848 presidential election campaign on

Identify and state the historical significance of William H. Seward.