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Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny - Quiz 1

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The application for California statehood caused turmoil in Congress because?

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it would upset the balance between the slave and free states in the Senate.

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it would disturb the balance in the House between those who favored slavery and those who opposed it.

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Democrats would allow no more slave states into the Union.

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Whigs would allow no more free states into the Union.

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The California Gold Rush resulted in all of the following developments EXCEPT the?

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influx of over 200,000 people into the region.

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forcing of thousands of Indians to serve as indentured laborers.

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kidnapping of thousands of Chinese to serve as workers.

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pressuring of the federal government to create an effective government for the area.

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In Congress, most of the criticism of the Mexican War came from the?

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Democrats.

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Federalists.

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Republicans.

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Populists.

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Whigs.

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What was the cause of the increasingly tense relations between the Mexican government and the American residents in Texas after 1830?

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the instability of Mexican politics.

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attempts by the Mexican government to prohibit importation of slaves.

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increasing American immigration.

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all of these choices are correct.

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"Ecological Imperialism" can best be described as?

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the efforts of white settlers to take land from Native Americans.

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the aggressive exploitation of the West's bounty.

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a desire for the United States to acquire California.

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none of these choices are correct.

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Manifest Destiny was based on all of the following ideas EXCEPT?

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Anglo-Saxon racial superiority justified American absorption of inferior peoples and their lands.

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new lands would extend the domain of free government and free enterprise.

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conquest of new territory would prove American military superiority.

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America had a specially ordained mission in the world.

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The Pre-Emption Action of 1841?

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forced squatters to buy at public auction the land they lived on.

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authorized free land grants for homesteaders who improved unsettled federal land.

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legalized settlement on federal land prior to its being surveyed.

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provided 160 acres of land to veterans of the Mexican War.

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President Zachary Taylor favored the?

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exclusion of slavery from all the lands acquired from Mexico.

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swift admission of new states from the Mexican Cession, with the issue of slavery decided by the local inhabitants.

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gradual admission of new states from the Mexican Cession, after giving southerners a chance to move into the area.

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creation of only slave states in all the lands acquired from Mexico.

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The Senate rejected annexing Texas drawn up by Secretary of State Calhoun because?

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he defended annexation as a way to protect and defend slavery.

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the Texans were not yet ready to give up their independence and join the United States.

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the British threatened to break off diplomatic relations if the United States took the territory without compensating them.

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Mexico threatened to declare war if the United States stole its province.

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Policies based on the idea of Manifest Destiny led to all of the following EXCEPT?

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war with Mexico.

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increased sectional conflict over slavery.

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the annexation of Texas.

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the decline of the Democratic party.

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