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

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