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1 | | The settlement of the western territories |
| | A) | united the North and South with a common feeling of nationalism. |
| | B) | divided the North and the South over the issue of slavery in the territories. |
| | C) | eliminated the need for debate over the issue of slavery. |
| | D) | facilitated effective compromises over the increasingly divisive issue of slavery. |
| | E) | created more slave states than free states. |
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2 | | By the end of the 1840s, the territory of the United States included |
| | A) | all of the nation's current territory. |
| | B) | the entire territory of the current continental United States. |
| | C) | nearly the entire territory of the current continental United States. |
| | D) | the entire continental United States east of the Rockies. |
| | E) | included the Gadsden Purchase. |
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3 | | The idea that God and history had selected America to expand its boundaries over the continent of North America was known as |
| | A) | Manifest Destiny. |
| | B) | divine right. |
| | C) | white supremacy. |
| | D) | nativism. |
| | E) | imperialism. |
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4 | | When the new republic of Texas requested annexation by the United States, |
| | A) | the American government quickly agreed. |
| | B) | Americans in the North opposed acquiring a large new slave territory. |
| | C) | Southerners, led by President Jackson, pushed for annexation. |
| | D) | Mexico gave up all claims to Texas. |
| | E) | Mexico declared war on the U.S. |
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5 | | American immigrants into Oregon |
| | A) | did not outnumber the British until after the Civil War. |
| | B) | had little impact on the few Native Americans there. |
| | C) | outnumbered the British by 1850. |
| | D) | were mostly fur trappers. |
| | E) | drove the Indians into Canada. |
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6 | | Immigrants going west on the great overland trails faced the least danger from |
| | A) | hostile Indians. |
| | B) | diseases. |
| | C) | mountain and desert terrain. |
| | D) | hunger. |
| | E) | brutal winter weather. |
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7 | | Which of the following was NOT part of President Polk's policy regarding New Mexico and California? |
| | A) | sending troops to the Nueces River in Texas |
| | B) | informing Americans in California that the United States would respond sympathetically to a revolt against Mexico |
| | C) | instructing the Pacific naval commander to seize California ports if Mexico declared war |
| | D) | ceasing all diplomatic contact with Mexico |
| | E) | All these answers are correct. |
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8 | | By combining the Oregon and the Texas issue in 1844, Democrats hoped to |
| | A) | start a war with Mexico and Great Britain. |
| | B) | attract John Tyler to the Democratic Party. |
| | C) | divert attention from the slavery issue. |
| | D) | get Van Buren to support Polk. |
| | E) | appeal to both Northern and Southern expansionists. |
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9 | | Travelers on the Overland Trail |
| | A) | experienced significantly higher death rates than the general population. |
| | B) | experienced constant and deadly attacks by Indian tribes along the trail. |
| | C) | was a highly individualized experience. |
| | D) | often migrated as families that practiced traditional gender divisions of labor. |
| | E) | were often loners who preferred a vagabond lifestyle. |
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10 | | The war with Mexico was criticized |
| | A) | by Southerners who believed Polk deliberately maneuvered the country into the conflict on behalf of Northern interests. |
| | B) | by Northerners who believed it was part of a slaveholders' plot to bring in more slave states. |
| | C) | by businessmen who believed it would hurt commerce with England and Mexico. |
| | D) | by Democrats from all sections of the nation. |
| | E) | by Texas Mexicans who favored reunification with Mexico. |
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11 | | The Wilmot Proviso |
| | A) | went into law without the president's signature. |
| | B) | was supported by Southern militants. |
| | C) | was a compromise acceptable to the South and the North but not the West. |
| | D) | drew very little attention outside of Congress. |
| | E) | passed the House by not the Senate. |
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12 | | The "overlord" of the Sacramento River Valley and the man on whose land gold was discovered was |
| | A) | John C. Fremont. |
| | B) | John A. Sutter. |
| | C) | Nicholas Trist. |
| | D) | Lewis Cass. |
| | E) | Stephen W. Kearny. |
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13 | | The Compromise of 1850 included all of the following EXCEPT |
| | A) | California would come in as a free state. |
| | B) | in the rest of the lands acquired from Mexico, territorial governments would be formed without restrictions on slavery. |
| | C) | the national government would not pay the Texas debt. |
| | D) | the slave trade, but not slavery, would be abolished in the District of Columbia. |
| | E) | None of these answers is correct. |
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14 | | Who of the following did NOT support the Compromise of 1850? |
| | A) | Henry Clay |
| | B) | Zachary Taylor |
| | C) | John C. Calhoun |
| | D) | Daniel Webster |
| | E) | Millard Fillmore |
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15 | | The new leaders emerging in Congress after the Compromise of 1850 were |
| | A) | less able politicians. |
| | B) | more concerned with narrow interest of self-promotion. |
| | C) | as skilled at compromise as the older leaders. |
| | D) | interested in broad national issues. |
| | E) | less pragmatic than their predecessors. |
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16 | | The "Young America" movement |
| | A) | was a movement to garner support for abolition among the youth of America. |
| | B) | was a movement to garner support for slavery among the youth of America. |
| | C) | was intended to divert young Americans' interests toward nationalism and expansion and away from the "transitory" issue of slavery. |
| | D) | was part of President Franklin Pierce's efforts to further expand the nation's territories to pacify the slavery interests. |
| | E) | was an unsuccessful diplomatic attempt to acquire Cuba. |
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17 | | The question of statehood for Kansas and Nebraska became a critical issue because |
| | A) | of the rivalry between Chicago and St. Louis as the location of the eastern terminus. |
| | B) | of Southern fear that a transcontinental railroad would be built through them. |
| | C) | of Northern concern over new wheat states and depressed grain prices. |
| | D) | many believed that they could never support a population sufficient to justify statehood. |
| | E) | of the question of whether they would be slave or free states. |
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18 | | Northerners who accepted the concepts of "free soil" and "free labor" believed |
| | A) | slavery was dangerous not because of what it did to blacks but because of what it did to whites. |
| | B) | slavery opened the door to economic opportunity for whites. |
| | C) | slavery was what made the South a glorious civilization and one that should be admired. |
| | D) | slave labor would work in Northern factories and should be allowed to expand. |
| | E) | slavery closed the door to economic opportunity for whites. |
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19 | | Through personal liberty laws, Northern states attempted to |
| | A) | use state authority to interfere with the deportation of fugitive slaves. |
| | B) | force industries to recognize labor unions. |
| | C) | allow women to own property. |
| | D) | extend the right to vote to all tax-paying adults. |
| | E) | legalize the "underground railroad." |
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20 | | Southerners who believed in the "positive-good" theory argued |
| | A) | slavery was good for blacks. |
| | B) | slavery should be maintained, even though it was not profitable for whites. |
| | C) | Northern factory workers were better off than slaves, but they deserved to be because they were white. |
| | D) | blacks were not biologically inferior, they just needed time to catch up culturally. |
| | E) | slavery enhanced the over-all American economy. |
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21 | | American efforts to buy or seize Cuba failed because |
| | A) | international pressure was put on President Pierce. |
| | B) | there was little nationalism in the nation by the 1850s. |
| | C) | antislavery forces in the North opposed it. |
| | D) | it was believed we had more territory than we could use. |
| | E) | established Southern planters feared Cuban competition. |
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22 | | The Dred Scott decision |
| | A) | affirmed Missouri law. |
| | B) | was a victory for the antislavery movement. |
| | C) | declared Scott a free man. |
| | D) | outlawed the interstate slave trade. |
| | E) | affirmed the South's argument that the Constitution guaranteed the existence of slavery. |
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23 | | Abraham Lincoln |
| | A) | believed slavery was morally wrong but was not an abolitionist. |
| | B) | had been a Democrat before he became a Republican. |
| | C) | believed the expansion of slavery would hurt the spread of free labor. |
| | D) | tried to avoid the slavery issue in his debates with Douglas. |
| | E) | believed slavery was morally wrong but was not an abolitionist, and had been a Democrat before he became a Republican. |
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24 | | The single event that did the most to convince white Southerners they could not live safely in the Union was |
| | A) | the election of Lincoln. |
| | B) | the Pottawatomie Massacre. |
| | C) | John Brown's raid. |
| | D) | the Dred Scott decision. |
| | E) | the split of the Democratic Party at the 1860 convention. |
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