The Young Republic ➤ Manifest Destiny and Crisis

The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

• 1. Westward Expansion Doctrine

• 1. Monroe Doctrine

• 1. Manifest Destiny Doctrine

• 1. Anglo-Saxonism Doctrine

1. Which of the following does not belong?

• Oregon Trail

• 1. Kansas City Trail

• 1. Santa Fe Trail

• 1. California Trail

During which President’s term did the United States grow by more than a million square miles, adding territory that now composes the states of Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, much of New Mexico, and portions of Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado?

• 1. Andrew Jackson

• 1. John Tyler

• 1. James Polk

• 1. Millard Fillmore

During the acquisition of territory from Mexico, who proposed the condition that “...neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory…”?

• 1. David Wilmot

• 1. Winfield Scott

• 1. Frederick Douglass

• 1. Zachary Taylor

Kentucky politician and frequent Presidential aspirant who crafted some of the most influential compromises (including the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850) in American history.

• 1. Henry Clay

• 1. James Polk

• 1. John Frémont

• 1. Daniel Webster

1. Who succeeded Zachary Taylor as President?

• 1. Martin Van Buren

• 1. John Tyler

• Millard Fillmore

• 1. James Buchanan

A network of secret routes and safe houses that was established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states.

• 1. Trail of Tears

• 1. Freedom Trail

• 1. Underground Railroad

• 1. Emancipation Alley

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, about whom Abraham Lincoln said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!”

• 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe

• 1. Harriet Tubman

• 1. Sojourner Truth

• 1. Susan B. Anthony

1. A period of repeated outbreaks of violent guerrilla warfare between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces following the creation of the new territory of Kansas in 1854.

• 1. Fugitive Slave Rebellion 

• 1. John Brown’s Raid

• 1. Free Soil Battle

• 1. Bleeding Kansas

1. What did Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney say with regard to Dred Scott’s petition to be released from slavery in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• 1. That because slavery was legal in Missouri, Scott had no basis to be freed

• 1. That because Scott had been taken from Missouri, a slave state, to live in the Wisconsin Territory, a free territory, he had earned his freedom and could not be returned to Missouri and to slavery

• 1. That because Scott was property and not a citizen, he had no right to sue for his freedom 

• 1. That without a Constitutional amendment banning slavery, the federal government was powerless to prohibit it anywhere in the United States