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.