American History Homework Five Answers - Student Five

American History Homework Five Answers - Petti

1\. The correct answer is (B). This is because the Know-Nothing Party Members did not welcome immigramts into the United States.

Correct.

2\. The Whigs believed in freedom for Americans but not necessarily for their slaves. Abraham Lincoln was a Whig.

This answer seems unresponsive to the question, as "freedom for Americans" is vague and the second point is not a party position. (Minus 4).

3\. The Mexican War was caused by aggression at the Texas/Mexican border, due to manifest destiny and Mexican expansionism. It was effectively finished after General Santayana's cowardly attack on the Alamo, where Davy Crockett and David Bowie fought him off, losing their lifes in the process. The final peace treaty was signed at Guadalupe Hildago in 1847. The Mexican War gave America several new states as part of the Mexican Cession.

The Alamo had nothing to do with the Mexican War. The latter part of your answer is fine. (Minus 2).

4\. The most important person of the period 1840-1860 was undoubtedly Abraham Lincoln. He was not even President yet, but just think what a different country we'd live in today if Abraham Lincoln had not been around back then! Another important person was Zachary Taylor, who was both a President and a General in the Mexican War.

Lincoln wasn't very influential during the period mentioned. Zachary Taylor is a good choice.

5\. "Bleeding Kansas" was the name that liberals gave to the Kansas Territory in the 1850s, because of how violent it was over the slavery question. John Brown and Henry Beecher were two of the most notorious "bloody" men of that period, both of them were anti-slavery. Guns were even called "Beecher's Bibles" because of how common they were in the Kansas.

Where did you get the view that "Bleeding Kansas" is a liberal term? I'm starting to wonder if you're really a student in my class!

6\. The woman represents Lady Liberty. She is spanking Steven Douglass because the cartoonist believes Douglass was wrong to vote for the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill was seen by many abolitionists as a compromise with slaveholders, therefore we can condlude that the cartoonist was probably an abolitionist himself. The man in knee-britches on the left looks sort of like Benjamin Franklin, but I can't tell what he's saying. Benjamin Franklin would probably have agreed that spanking Steven Douglass was a good thing.

Your answers seem silly. Note that Stephen Douglas is repeatedly misspelled.

7\. I think it was not possible to avoid the Civil War. If Abraham Lincoln couldn't do it, and he tried very hard, then how could the Civil War possibly have been avoided? It couldn't. The Civil War was started at Fort Sumter.

OK.

I doubt you're a real student. Perhaps you attend public school? Contact me by email if you are a student in my course. No score.--Aschlafly 21:53, 16 October 2008 (EDT)