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Question #1
Within the ideology of Manifest Destiny were all the following beliefs EXCEPT that
A.   None of these answers is correct, as all of these were beliefs encompassed by the ideology of Manifest Destiny.
B.   the United States was destined by God and history to expand in size.
C.   U.S. expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada.
D.   the United States should create a vast new “empire of liberty.”
E.   the growth of the United States should ultimately include much of the rest of the world.
Question #2
The Mexican War resulted in large part from
A.   Mexican forces attacking Americans in California.
B.   the United States provoking Mexico to fight.
C.   Texas citizens staging an attack by Mexican forces.
D.   Mexico provoking the United States to fight.
E.   Texas citizens attacking Mexican forces.
Question #3
During the Mexican War,
A.   victory came more easily than President Polk had anticipated.
B.   the actual fighting was confined to Texas and Mexico.
C.   American settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the United States navy.
D.   President Polk considered Zachary Taylor to be his closest ally in Mexico.
E.   President Polk tried to placate Whigs by minimizing military offensives.
Question #4
Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States
A.   established an open border with Mexico.
B.   agreed to pay millions to Mexico.
C.   established an American protectorate over Mexico.
D.   gave up rights to California (for a time) in exchange for New Mexico and Texas.
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.   prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.
D.   overturned the Missouri Compromise.
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.   typically planned to remain permanently in the state.
C.   usually came with their families.
D.   had aspirations similar to those of American participants.
E.   found themselves banned from working in the mines.
Question #7
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act
A.   intensified the debate over slavery.
B.   was readily accepted by northerners in the spirit of compromise.
C.   upset southerners as much as northerners, but was readily accepted by northerners in the spirit of compromise.
D.   None of these answers is correct.
E.   upset southerners as much as northerners.
Question #8
The “free soil” ideology included
A.   a call to end slavery in the United States as soon as possible.
B.   an argument for black male suffrage.
C.   opposition to the expansion of slavery.
D.   the use of military force to suppress 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.   the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
C.   slaves were property unless they moved to a free state.
D.   Scott must be freed under federal law.
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.   Whig Party.
D.   Republican Party.
E.   Constitutional Union Party.

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