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The United States gained western territory by all of the following means except |
| | A) | treaty with Britain. |
| | B) | purchase from France. |
| | C) | treaty with Spain. |
| | D) | war and purchase from Mexico. |
| | E) | purchase from indigenous people. |
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The term Manifest Destiny was used to describe |
| | A) | the inevitability of American independence from Britain. |
| | B) | the superiority of the U.S. Constitution. |
| | C) | the inevitability of American dominion over all of North America. |
| | D) | the superiority of the North to the South during the Civil War. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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At Wounded Knee in 1890, |
| | A) | Colonel George Armstrong Custer was defeated by army of Lakota Sioux. |
| | B) | thousands of eastern Cherokee were crowded onto a desolate reservation in Oklahoma. |
| | C) | Sioux warriors, emboldened by the Ghost Dance movement, attacked and massacred a community of white settlers. |
| | D) | U.S. cavalry massacred a settlement of 200 Sioux men, women, and children. |
| | E) | Blackfeet warriors tried unsuccessfully to escape across the border into Canada. |
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Which of the following is not a territory acquired as a result of the Mexican-American War? |
| | A) | Arizona. |
| | B) | California. |
| | C) | Nevada. |
| | D) | Oregon. |
| | E) | Utah. |
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The constitutional issue at the center of the American Civil War was |
| | A) | the balance of power between the president and the Congress. |
| | B) | the balance of power between the state governments and the federal government. |
| | C) | conflicting claims between the individual and society. |
| | D) | the rights of immigrant labor versus the rights of slave labor. |
| | E) | how to fulfill ideals of the Enlightenment. |
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The Emancipation Proclamation |
| | A) | freed all slaves in the United States. |
| | B) | freed all slaves who took up arms against the South. |
| | C) | freed only the slaves in the rebel states. |
| | D) | freed all slaves in the western territories. |
| | E) | promised to free all slaves at the end of the Civil War. |
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British Canada gained a large French population as a result of |
| | A) | France’s loss of its Canadian colonies in the Seven Years’ War. |
| | B) | the flight to Canada of French Protestants in the eighteenth century. |
| | C) | French citizens fleeing the Napoleonic wars. |
| | D) | French fur traders being driven out of the United States. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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Which of the following provinces was not part of the Dominion of Canada by 1900? |
| | A) | Alberta. |
| | B) | British Columbia. |
| | C) | Nova Scotia. |
| | D) | Ontario. |
| | E) | Quebec. |
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In Latin America, the road to a stable state was hindered by |
| | A) | an elite conspiracy against lower classes. |
| | B) | the ignorance and apathy of the lower classes. |
| | C) | sharp divisions among the creole classes. |
| | D) | the caudillos’ reign of terror. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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The Mexican Revolution was fundamentally a conflict between |
| | A) | supporters of the Catholic church and anti-cleric revolutionaries. |
| | B) | liberal and socialist programs for social reform. |
| | C) | supporters of Emiliano Zapata and supporters of Pancho Villa. |
| | D) | Mexican business interests and foreign investors. |
| | E) | conservative landowners and landless peasants. |
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All of the following contributed to American economic development in the nineteenth century except |
| | A) | foreign investment. |
| | B) | cheap labor provided by immigration. |
| | C) | the transcontinental railroad. |
| | D) | lack of competition from Europe. |
| | E) | abundant natural resources, including coal and iron. |
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New inventions toward the turn of the century included all of the following except |
| | A) | electric lights. |
| | B) | electric motor. |
| | C) | radio. |
| | D) | phonograph. |
| | E) | telephone. |
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The National Policy for economic development of Canada included |
| | A) | tariffs to protect Canadian industry. |
| | B) | recruitment of immigrants. |
| | C) | construction of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. |
| | D) | attracting foreign investment without losing control of the national economy. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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Economic development in Latin America was limited because |
| | A) | the market for manufactured goods was too small. |
| | B) | most goods were manufactured on self-sufficient haciendas. |
| | C) | state control discouraged foreign investment. |
| | D) | there were insufficient natural resources in Latin America. |
| | E) | there wasn’t enough cheap labor in Latin America. |
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During the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, Mexico achieved all of the following except |
| | A) | construction of rail and telegraph lines. |
| | B) | industrial expansion. |
| | C) | paved streets and electric lights in Mexico city. |
| | D) | improved public health and education. |
| | E) | significant foreign investment in the Mexican economy. |
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The purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was to |
| | A) | provide useful industrial skills to Native Americans. |
| | B) | break tribal reservations into small family farms. |
| | C) | undermine Native religions and inculcate Christian values. |
| | D) | regulate relations between Indian and settlers on the plains. |
| | E) | allow for autonomous self-government on the reservations. |
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After Reconstruction, former slaves in the American south |
| | A) | elected biracial governments for the first time in U.S. history. |
| | B) | remained free, but lost many of their civil rights. |
| | C) | became independent farmers and landowners. |
| | D) | gained control of their own schools and local institutions. |
| | E) | all of the above. |
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The Northwest Rebellion in Canada in 1885 was sparked by |
| | A) | the loss of land and trading rights by métis and natives because of western expansion. |
| | B) | tensions between British and French settlers on the frontier. |
| | C) | conflicts between settlers and the railroad over land rights. |
| | D) | tensions between British and French residents and newcomers from Eastern Europe. |
| | E) | a border dispute between Canadian and American settlers on the western plains. |
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The gaucho in Argentina is similar to what widely romanticized figure in American history? |
| | A) | the fur trader. |
| | B) | the solitary prospector. |
| | C) | the homesteader. |
| | D) | the cattle rustler. |
| | E) | the western cowboy. |
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By 1900 Latin American women had achieved |
| | A) | expanded educational opportunities. |
| | B) | the right to vote in national elections. |
| | C) | the right to divorce. |
| | D) | property rights within marriage. |
| | E) | nothing at all. |
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