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

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