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Question #1
Within the ideology of Manifest Destiny were all the following beliefs EXCEPT that
A.   the United States should create a vast new “empire of liberty.”
B.   the growth of the United States should ultimately include much of the rest of the world.
C.   U.S. expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada.
D.   the United States was destined by God and history to expand in size.
E.   None of these answers is correct, as all of these were beliefs encompassed by the ideology of Manifest Destiny.
Question #2
The Mexican War resulted in large part from
A.   Texas citizens attacking Mexican forces.
B.   the United States provoking Mexico to fight.
C.   Mexico provoking the United States to fight.
D.   Mexican forces attacking Americans in California.
E.   Texas citizens staging an attack by Mexican forces.
Question #3
During the Mexican War,
A.   President Polk tried to placate Whigs by minimizing military offensives.
B.   President Polk considered Zachary Taylor to be his closest ally in Mexico.
C.   American settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the United States navy.
D.   the actual fighting was confined to Texas and Mexico.
E.   victory came more easily than President Polk had anticipated.
Question #4
Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States
A.   established an American protectorate over Mexico.
B.   gave up rights to California (for a time) in exchange for New Mexico and Texas.
C.   agreed to pay millions to Mexico.
D.   established an open border with Mexico.
E.   officially acquired only Texas.
Question #5
The Wilmot Proviso
A.   was an appropriation to pay for peace with Mexico.
B.   banned all slavery west of the Mississippi River.
C.   overturned the Missouri Compromise.
D.   prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.
E.   passed in the House and was signed into law.
Question #6
The Chinese who came to California during the gold rush
A.   more often worked as merchants than miners.
B.   found themselves banned from working in the mines.
C.   had aspirations similar to those of American participants.
D.   usually came with their families.
E.   typically planned to remain permanently in the state.
Question #7
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act
A.   upset southerners as much as northerners.
B.   was readily accepted by northerners in the spirit of compromise.
C.   intensified the debate over slavery.
D.   upset southerners as much as northerners, but was readily accepted by northerners in the spirit of compromise.
E.   None of these answers is correct.
Question #8
The “free soil” ideology included
A.   an argument for black male suffrage.
B.   the use of military force to suppress slavery.
C.   a call to end slavery in the United States as soon as possible.
D.   opposition to the expansion of slavery.
E.   the argument that slavery was tremendously harmful to American blacks.
Question #9
The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) held that
A.   states were not allowed to abolish slavery within their borders.
B.   Scott must be freed under federal law.
C.   slaves were property unless they moved to a free state.
D.   the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
E.   the freedom of a slave could not be purchased by a black person.
Question #10
In the 1860 elections, the political party most deeply divided over slavery was the
A.   Know-Nothing Party.
B.   Democratic Party.
C.   Republican Party.
D.   Constitutional Union Party.
E.   Whig Party.

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