1. Chapter 13: Expansion, War, and Sectional Crisis: 1844—1860
iClicker Questions for America’s History, Seventh Edition and America: A Concise History, Fifth Edition

2. 1. John L. O’Sullivan’s term Manifest Destiny
A. motivated American expansion.
B. embodied the dreams of American expansionists.
C. was the motivation behind the Kansas- Nebraska Act.
D. was based on an American belief in the equality of all peoples.

3. 2. Texas was annexed after
A. Henry Clay campaigned on a promise to make Texas a state.
B. Sam Houston won the Battle of San Jacinto.
C. Congress approved a joint resolution.
D. Mexico broke diplomatic relations with the United States.

4. 3. Democrats built up support for the annexation of Texas in 1844 by
A. arguing that Texas was needed as a slave state.
B. linking Texas to the Oregon question.
C. arguing that Texas would be admitted as a free state.
D. claiming that Texas was needed to block British expansion.

5. 4. The free-soil concept achieved significant popular support because
A. southerners saw it as less threatening than the Wilmot Proviso.
B. it stressed protection of white economic opportunity.
C. it appealed to abolitionists who focused on the sin of slavery.
D. it celebrated acquisition of land from Mexico after the war.

6. 5. The southern conventions considered secession in 1850, but southern states did not secede then because
A. moderates convinced them to support the Compromise of 1850 with the understanding that secession would receive widespread support in the case of future slavery restrictions.
B. only a small number of southerners were disturbed by northern defiance of the Fugitive Slave Act.
C. southerners lacked the military readiness to go to war at that point.
D. most southern citizens opposed the idea.

7. 6. The Compromise of 1850, hammered out by Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Stephen Douglas, included all of the following except
A. the Fugitive Slave Act.
B. the admission of California to the Union as a free state.
the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
the granting to Texas of all the land west of Texas as far as the Rio Grande.

8. 7. Events in Kansas seemed to demonstrate that popular sovereignty would lead
settlers to compromise their differences.
to violence.
slaveholders to dominate.
Free-Soilers to dominate.

9. 8. In 1854, politically speaking, Abraham Lincoln was a
A. conscience Whig who supported abolitionism.
B. Free-Soiler drifting into the Republican Party.
Republican and former Whig who supported a moderate, gradualist view on abolition.
Republican and former anti-Nebraska northern Democrat.

10. 9. Which eastern abolitionist, inflamed by the sack of the free-soil town of Lawrence, Kansas, led the vigilantes who took revenge on proslavery settlers in the Pottawatomie massacre?
A. John Brown
B. Dred Scott
C. Frederick Douglass
D. William Lloyd Garrison

11. 10. Why did the discovery of gold in California affect the national debate on slavery?
A. California sought statehood as a free state in 1850, which would have blocked slavery in the West.
B. The California constitution allowed slavery, but only in the gold fields.
C. President Taylor opposed California’s petition for statehood.
D. Southerners rushed to California, bringing thousands of slaves with them.

12. Answer is B Answer is C Answer is A Answer is D
Answer Key for Chapter 13
Answer is B
Answer is C
Answer is A
Answer is D