The Territory Debate Revisited NDCh5

What does the term 'Annex' mean?

• To give away a territory

• To take over a territory

• To share a territory

• To abandon a territory

Fill in the blank: The idea that all political power comes from the people themselves is known as ________.

• Free labor

• Popular sovereignty

• Dormant

• Concessions

What was the main issue that brought the fight over slavery back into focus in Congress in the 1840s?

• The annexation of Texas

• The election of 1848

• The Missouri Compromise

• The California Gold Rush

Fill in the blank: In 1850, Henry Clay proposed a compromise that required ________ from both sides of the debate.

• Concessions

• Dormant

• Appropriation

• Quandary

What was the main idea behind Manifest Destiny?

• A) Expansion of the U.S. across the continent

• B) Limiting immigration

• C) Industrialization

• D) Abolition of slavery

Which doctrine was associated with states' rights and nullification?

• Monroe Doctrine

• Calhoun Doctrine

• Truman Doctrine

• Eisenhower Doctrine

The Gold Rush of 1848 led to a large migration to which U.S. state?

• Texas

• California

• New York

• Florida

The Compromise of 1850 included measures to address the issue of ______.

• Trade tariffs

• Slavery

• Education

• Transportation

What did the South gain from both the Compromise of the 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• an enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law

• a provision to honor the Mason-Dixon line

• the gradual elimination of slavery in the territories being added to the nation

• the use of popular sovereignty in making decisions about slavery in the territories

_______________________ document that would have prohibited slavery in any part of the Mexican Session.

• Free soil party
• Missouri compromise
• Wilmot Proviso
• Secede