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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) | appeal to both northern and southern expansionists. |
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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. |
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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. |
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11 | |
The Wilmot Proviso: |
| | A) | went into law without the president's signature. |
| | B) | passed the House but not the Senate. |
| | C) | was a compromise acceptable to the South and the North but not the West. |
| | D) | drew very little attention outside of Congress. |
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12 | |
The "overload" 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. |
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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. |
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Which of the following did not support the Compromise of 1850? |
| | A) | Henry Clay. |
| | B) | Zachary Taylor. |
| | C) | John C. Calhoun. |
| | D) | Daniel Webster. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The question of statehood for Kansas and Nebraska became a critical issue because: |
| | A) | of the question of whether they would be slave or free states. |
| | 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Southerners who believed in the "positive-good" theory argued: |
| | A) | slavery was good for blacks. |
| | B) | slavery was 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. |
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21 | |
The lyceum movement: |
| | A) | as an effort to extend school hours for children. |
| | B) | was an effort to spread abolitionism throughout the South. |
| | C) | primarily focused on entertainment for adults. |
| | D) | often provided forums for discussions of the controversial issues of the day. |
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22 | |
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. |
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The Dred Scott decision: |
| | A) | affirmed the South's argument that the Constitution guaranteed the existence of slavery. |
| | B) | was a victory for the antislavery movement. |
| | C) | declared Scott a free man. |
| | D) | outlawed the interstate slave trade. |
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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) | both a and c. |
| | F) | both a and d. |
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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. |
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