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Chapter 13 QuizAccording to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, - correct answer the question of whether slavery would be allowed in these territories would be decided by local (white) settlers. Between 1848 and 1860, American trade with China - correct answer tripled By 1860, New York City had become the nation's financial, commercial, and manufacturing center. T or F - correct answer True During the early 1800s, the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande was claimed by both Texas and Mexico but was actually controlled by - correct answer Comanche Indians. For almost a decade, from the mid-1830s to 1845, the Republic of Texas was neither part of the United States nor part of Mexico. T or F - correct answer True In , President Millard Fillmore dispatched American warships to Japan under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry in an effort to - correct answer force a trade treaty with an outright demand that the Japanese deal with the United States. In his 1858 Senate campaign against Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln called for the immediate abolition of slavery. T or F - correct answer False In response to the nomination of Stephen Douglas's Democratic candidacy, seven of the southern delegates - correct answer walked out of the convention. In the 1850s, two great areas of industrial production had arisen in consequence of the market revolution. These were - correct answer the Atlantic Coast from Baltimore to Boston, and the cities around the Great Lakes. In the Compromise of 1850, - correct answer the slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia. In the famous brawl on the floor of Congress, Senator Charles Sumner was beat unconscious by Congressman Preston S. Brooks over the issue of railroad development. T or F - correct answer False In their initial pronouncements, Confederate leaders stressed the preservation of white supremacy and slavery. T or F - correct answer True John Brown and his followers murdered five supporters of slavery at Pottawatomie Creek in May 1856. T or F - correct answer True The Free Soil Party's platform called for - correct answer the government to bar slavery from the western territories and provide land free in the territories to people who wanted to homestead there. The Fugitive Slave Act - correct answer allowed special federal commissioners to determine the fate of alleged fugitives without the benefit of a jury trial or testimony by the accused individual. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 - correct answer established the principal of popular sovereignty whereby the status of slavery would be determined. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848 - correct answer ended the Mexican War. The expansionist spirit of the early nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean was called - correct answer manifest destiny The first American conflict to be fought primarily on foreign soil and the first in which American troops occupied a foreign capital was - correct answer the Mexican War The first state to secede the Union was also the state with the highest percentage of slaves in its population- - correct answer South Carolina. The initial fighting of the Civil War began when - correct answer Jefferson Davis ordered batteries to fire on Fort Sumter