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Question #1
Within the ideology of Manifest Destiny were all the following beliefs EXCEPT that
A.   U.S. expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada.
B.   the United States should create a vast new “empire of liberty.”
C.   the United States was destined by God and history to expand in size.
D.   None of these answers is correct, as all of these were beliefs encompassed by the ideology of Manifest Destiny.
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.   the United States provoking Mexico to fight.
B.   Texas citizens staging an attack by Mexican forces.
C.   Texas citizens attacking Mexican forces.
D.   Mexican forces attacking Americans in California.
E.   Mexico provoking the United States to fight.
Question #3
During the Mexican War,
A.   victory came more easily than President Polk had anticipated.
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.   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.   officially acquired only Texas.
B.   gave up rights to California (for a time) in exchange for New Mexico and Texas.
C.   established an open border with Mexico.
D.   established an American protectorate over Mexico.
E.   agreed to pay millions to Mexico.
Question #5
The Wilmot Proviso
A.   prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.
B.   passed in the House and was signed into law.
C.   was an appropriation to pay for peace with Mexico.
D.   overturned the Missouri Compromise.
E.   banned all slavery west of the Mississippi River.
Question #6
The Chinese who came to California during the gold rush
A.   had aspirations similar to those of American participants.
B.   usually came with their families.
C.   more often worked as merchants than miners.
D.   typically planned to remain permanently in the state.
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.   upset southerners as much as northerners.
C.   was readily accepted by northerners in the spirit of compromise.
D.   None of these answers is correct.
E.   upset southerners as much as northerners, but was readily accepted by northerners in the spirit of compromise.
Question #8
The “free soil” ideology included
A.   the use of military force to suppress slavery.
B.   the argument that slavery was tremendously harmful to American blacks.
C.   opposition to the expansion of slavery.
D.   a call to end slavery in the United States as soon as possible.
E.   an argument for black male suffrage.
Question #9
The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) held that
A.   Scott must be freed under federal law.
B.   slaves were property unless they moved to a free state.
C.   the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
D.   the freedom of a slave could not be purchased by a black person.
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.   Whig Party.
C.   Constitutional Union Party.
D.   Republican Party.
E.   Democratic Party.

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