Exam 13: Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict, 1840-1848

Which of the following was one of the reasons why some antislavery northerners believed there was a southern conspiracy to extend slavery into the Southwest?

Which of the following did the Whig political program in 1840 include?

According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,

What was one reason that "dark horse" James K. Polk won the presidency in 1844?

What did President James K. Polk want from Mexico in 1845 and 1846?

In Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that

What was the Free-Soil Party's campaign slogan?

From the point of view of the Whig party in 1848, why was Zachary Taylor an ideal candidate for president?

The fate of the Donner party demonstrated

Which of the following was not one of the causes of increasingly tense relations between the Mexican government and the American residents in Texas after 1830?

What military leader in the Mexican-American War became a national hero and eventually president?

Why did John C. Calhoun believe that the federal government had no power to prohibit slavery in the Mexican Cession?

The Battle of the Alamo

Along the overland trail, how did the duties of men and women compare?

Which statement accurately describes travel to Oregon or California on the overland trails during the 1840s?

In the Mexican-American War, the Mexican armies

Empresarios were

Which statement best describes the Germans who came to the United States before 1860?

Who led the Texas army that defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto?

In 1860 what groups accounted for three-fourths of all foreign-born Americans?