Inquisitive Chapter 13 APUSH questions with 100% correct answers graded A+ 2023/2024

Inquisitive Chapter 13 APUSHSenator Stephen Douglas hoped to apply the principle of popular sovereignty to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Identify what "popular sovereignty" means and how it was used in Douglas's reasoning. - correct answer Correct answers: -Popular sovereignty is the principle that people should rule, and as such the status of slavery should be determined by the votes of local settlers and not Congress -Popular sovereignty was seen as a political middle ground on the issue of slavery. Match the terms relating to the territorial expansion of the United States in the 1840s to their correct definitions. - correct answer Correct Answers: - Commodore Matthew Perry: Opened Japan to American trade -Sam Houston: President and military leader of the Republic of Texas -The Gadsden Purchase: Parcel of land purchased from Mexico in 1853 -Gold Rush: Caused massive influx of settlers to California Which of the following events that took place between 1855 and 1856 helped fuel the rise of the Republican Party? - correct answer Correct Answers: -Stephen Douglas's policy of "popular sovereignty" was discredited by "Bleeding Kansas." -the brutal caning of Charles Sumner The Dred Scott decision challenged the very heart of the Republican Party platform. What events occurred as a result of the Dred Scott decision? - correct answer Correct Answers: -Slavery, according to President Buchanan, henceforth existed in all the territories "by virtue of the Constitution." -Dred Scott was bought by a new master and immediately emancipated along with his family. The Know-Nothing Party swept the 1854 state elections. Fill in the blanks to complete the passage describing the Know-Nothing Party's political stance on immigration. - correct answer Correct Answers: 1.)Anti-slavery 2.)Catholics 3.)Temperance 4.)White 5.)Vote When John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry failed and he was tried for treason, his last words before he was executed on December 2, 1859, were, "I . . . am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood." What did his quotation foreshadow? - correct answer Correct Answers: -The Civil War The first part of Mexico to be settled by large numbers of Americans was Tijuana. - correct answer Correct Answers: -False John Brown raided the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in the hopes of starting a slave revolt. Brown became a public figure and conducted himself with great courage and dignity, winning admiration even from those who opposed his violent deeds. Which of the following statements about John Brown are true? - correct answer Correct Answers: -Brown was executed by the state of Virginia. -During the Kansas civil war, Brown murdered five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in revenge for the attack on free soil. -Brown's force that attacked Harper's Ferry on October 16, 1859, numbered only twenty-one men, five of whom were black. The Mexican-American War was the first war fought by the United States entirely on foreign soil, leading to the occupation of a foreign capital. The war was seen by its detractors as a war of aggression. Identify why the following American public figures opposed the Mexican War. - correct answer Correct Answers: -Ulysses S Grant: This leader served with distinction in the Mexican War but referred to the conflict as "one of the most unjust (wars) ever waged by a stronger nation against a weaker nation." -Henry David Thoreau: This public figure was jailed for refusing to pay his taxes in protest of the war and later wrote an essay defending his actions entitled "On Civil Disobedience." -Abraham Lincoln: This freshman congressman was disgusted by the behavior of the administration