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| 5703622588 | The settlement of western territories | divided the North and the South over the issue of slavery in the territories. | 0 | |
| 5703622589 | By the end of the 1840s, the territory of the U.S. included | nearly the entire territory of the current continental U.S. | 1 | |
| 5703622590 | The idea that God and history had selected America to expand its boundaries over the continent of North America was known as | Manifest Destiny | 2 | |
| 5703622591 | When the new republic of Texas requested annexation by the U.S. | Americans in the North opposed acquiring a large new slave territory | 3 | |
| 5703622592 | American immigrants in Oregon | outnumbered the British by 1850 | 4 | |
| 5703622593 | Immigrants going West on the great overland trails faced the least danger from | hostile Indians | 5 | |
| 5703622594 | The following was NOT part of President Polk's policy regarding New Mexico and California | ceasing all diplomatic contact w/ Mexico | 6 | |
| 5703622595 | By combining the Oregon & Texas issue in 1844, Democrats hoped to | appeal to both Northern and Southerner expansionists | 7 | |
| 5703622596 | Travelers on the Overland Trail | often migrated as families that practiced traditional gender division of labor | 8 | |
| 5703622597 | The war with Mexico was criticized | by Northerners who believed it was part of a slaveholders' plot to bring in more slave states | 9 | |
| 5703622598 | The Wilmot Proviso | passed the House but not the Senate | 10 | |
| 5703622599 | The "overlord" of the Sacramento River Valley and the man on whose land gold was discovered was | John A. Sutter | 11 | |
| 5703622600 | The Compromise of 1850 did NOT include | the national government would not pay the Texas debt | 12 | |
| 5703622601 | Zachary Taylor | did not support the Compromise of 1850 | 13 | |
| 5703622602 | The new leaders emerging in Congress after the Compromise of 1850 were | more concerned with narrow interest of self-promotion | 14 | |
| 5703622603 | The "Young America" movement | was intended to divert young Americans' interests toward nationalism and expansionism and away from the "transitory" slave issue | 15 | |
| 5703622604 | The question of statehood for Kansas and Nebraska became a critical issue because | of the question whether they would be slave or free states | 16 | |
| 5703622605 | Northerners who accepted the concepts of "free soil" and "free labor" believed | slavery was dangerous not because of what it did to blacks but because of what it did to whites | 17 | |
| 5703622606 | Through personal liberty laws, Northern states attempted to | use state authority to interfere with the deportation of fugitive slaves | 18 | |
| 5703622607 | Southerners who believed in the "positive-good" theory argued | slavery was good for blacks | 19 | |
| 5703622608 | American efforts to buy or seize Cuba failed because | antislavery forces in the North opposed it | 20 | |
| 5703622609 | The Dred Scott decision | affirmed the South's argument that the Constitution guaranteed the existence of slavery | 21 | |
| 5703622610 | Abraham Lincoln | believed slavery was morally wrong but he was not an abolitionist, and had been a Democrat before he became a Republican | 22 | |
| 5703622611 | The single event that did the most to convince white Southerners they could not live safely in the Union was | John Brown's raid | 23 |
