HIS201- Final Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Version 2025 (Fully Solved)

HIS201- Final Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Version 2025 (Fully Solved) War in the East (Union) - Answers The idea that the United States should control the North American continent from sea to sea, term coined by John L. O'Sullivan - Answers Manifest Destiny Who opposed and who supported Texas becoming a slave state? - Answers Northerners and Whigs opposed Southerners and Democrats supported Dark horse Democratic candidate that won the presidential election on a platform of annexing Texas - Answers James K. Polk Voted to annex Texas as the 28th state - Answers Congress Non-legitimate candidate in 1844 due to having been forced out of the Whig Party that signed a treaty to annex Texas because he wanted Texas to be his legacy - Answers John Tyler Candidates of the election of 1844 - Answers James K Polk and Henry Clay Polk's Four Point Plan - Answers 1. A lower tariff rate 2. Settle the "Oregon Dispute" with Britain and get as much territory as possible 3. Establish an Independent Treasury 4. Acquire California from Mexico Slogan of the Democrats (Polk), voicing the desire for the entire Oregon Territory (really a bluff) - Answers FIFTY- FOUR FORTY OR FIGHT What was the dispute over the America-Mexico border - Answers The U.S. claimed the Rio Grande as the border and Mexico claimed the Nueces River Sent by Polk into the disputed territory in Texas, hoping to provoke the Mexicans - Answers General Zachary Taylor Why did Polk ask Congress to declare war on Mexico? - Answers The loss of "American blood on American soil" Congressman Abraham Lincoln of Illinois demanded to be shown the spot where blood was shed - Answers "Spot Resolution" -American settlers in California revolted and declared their independence and proclaimed the Republic of California -General Stephen Kearny took Santa Fe in New Mexico and then took his troops west to link up with Colonel John C. Fremont -Fremont and Kearny had secured California and New Mexico - Answers The Bear Flag Revolt Leading U.S. Generals in Mexico - Answers General Zachary Taylor and General Winfield Scott Terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Answers a. The Rio Grande would be recognized as the southern border of Texas b. Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the U.S. c. The US paid Mexico $15 million d. The US agreed to pay claims that the US citizens had against Mexico Effects of the War with Mexico - Answers a. Established the border of the US as we now know it b. Vastly increased the size and population of the US c. Long-lasting Mexican resentment d. Major western migration and expansion Proviso attached by Pennsylvania Congressman David Wilmot saying that slavery should never exist in any part of the Mexican cession that wasn't passed by Congress - Answers The Wilmot Proviso Took the Mexican capital of Mexico City, bringing the war to an end - Answers General Winfield Scott The Three Fronts of the Mexican American War - Answers The Army of the West, The Army of the Center, and The Army of Occupation Limit for slavery set by the Missouri Compromise Line - Answers 36*30" N latitude Candidates of the election of 1848 - Answers Governor Lewis Cass, General Zachary Taylor, and Martin Van Buren third party which was opposed to the spread of slavery on economic grounds that ran Martin Van Buren as a presidential candidate in the election of 1848 - Answers The Free Soil Party Won the election of 1848 - Answers Zachary Taylor Applied for statehood as a free state - Answers California Terms of the Compromise of 1850 - Answers a. Congress would admit California as a free state b. The people of the territories of New Mexico and Utah would decide for themselves whether or not slavery be legal (POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY) c. Congress would abolish slave trade, but not slavery itself, in Washington, DC d. Texas would give up claims to New Mexico in turn for $10 million e. The Fugitive Slave Act would order all citizens of the United States to assist in the return of escaped slaves to their owners ("The Bloodhound Bill") The Fugitive Slave Act would order all citizens of the United States to assist in the return of escaped slaves to their owners - Answers "The Bloodhound Bill" The nation's leading orator that gave the famous speech "Seventh of March Speech" that favored the Compromise of 1850 - Answers Daniel Webster Did Congress approve the Compromise of 1850? - Answers Yes Why did the Whig party collapse? - Answers Many northern Whigs did not like the fact that the party compromised on slavery The opposition to immigration - Answers Nativism The secret nativist society formed called the Order of the Star-Spangled Banner that pledged to work against Irish Catholic candidates and to require immigrants to wait longer before they could be citizens - Answers Know-Nothing Party The act that Douglas introduced to try to win support from both sections of the Missouri Compromise Line that supported the practice of popular sovereignty - Answers The Kansas-Nebraska Act The idea of allowing people in a territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery - Answers Popular sovereignty Party formed by the Northerners that opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act that denounced slavery as a moral evil, vowed to fight its spread, and demanded a repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act and the Kansas-Nebraska Act - Answers Republican Party A pro-slavery gang attacked and burned the free-soil town of Lawrence - Answers Sack