Union as a slave state.
- Question 1 1.6 out of 1.6 points
- What was a key provision of the Compromise of 1850?
- Selected Answer: ????c. The New Mexico and Utah Territories would use popular sovereignty to decide about slavery. Answers:
- a. California would enter the Union as a slave state.
- b. Slavery would be abolished in Washington, D.C.
- ????c. The New Mexico and Utah Territories would use popular sovereignty to decide about slavery.
- d. The Oregon Territory would be created.
- e. The Fugitive Slave Act gave runaway slaves more protection and guaranteed them a lawyer in court.
- Question 2 1.6 out of 1.6 points
- Unlike most previous presidents, James Polk was not a slaveholder.
- Selected Answer: ???? False
- Answers: True ???? False
- Question 3 1.6 out of 1.6 points
- Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the United States because:
- Selected Answer: ????a. the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it. Answers:
- ????a. the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it.
- b. the Texas Republic’s congress opposed joining the United States, preferring to stay independent.
- c. the Mexican army’s resounding victory at the Alamo made them fearful of antagonizing a powerful government.
- d. Henry Clay wanted to add it and, as the Whig leader, he was their sworn enemy.
- e. the population of Texas was too small to justify it.
- Question 4 1.6 out of 1.6 points
- In California after the Mexican-American War, landowners of Spanish heritage had to adjust to a new identity as if they were immigrants.
- Selected Answer: ???? True
- Answers: ???? True False
- Question 5 1.6 out of 1.6 points
- American settlement in Texas in the 1820s and 1830s:
- Selected Answer: ????c. led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials.
- Answers:
- a. did not exceed the Mexican population there until the United States annexed Texas in 1845.
- b. included no slaves, because Mexico had banned slavery in its territory.
- ????c. led Stephen Austin to demand more autonomy from Mexican officials.
- d. was in communities whose American-born residents were called Tejanos by their Mexican neighbors.
- e. took place without approval from the Mexican government.