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1. Within the ideology of Manifest Destiny were all the following beliefs EXCEPT that

C. United States expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada.

2. In the 1840s, critics of territorial expansion by the United States

C. warned it would increase the controversy over slavery.

3. President James K. Polk

B. helped his candidacy for office by expressing a desire to re-annex Texas.

4. In the 1820s, most of the settlers from the United States who migrated to Texas were

A. white southerners and their slaves.

5. In the 1820s and 1830s, the government of Mexico

E. moved from favoring to opposing American immigration into Texas.

6. In 1836, an attack by Mexican forces on the Alamo mission

B. saw the death of Davy Crockett.

7. In 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto

D. led to independence for Texas.

8. In 1836, Texas did not immediately join the United States in part because

C. President Andrew Jackson thought that action would add to sectional tensions

9. In the mid-1840s, the Oregon country in the Pacific Northwest

E. included an Indian population that had been devastated by disease.

10. Before the early 1850s, Americans who traveled west on the overland trails were generally

A. relatively young people who traveled in family groups

Which of the following towns served as a major departure point for migrants traveling west

on the overland trails?

A. Independence, Missouri

12. Between 1840 and 1860, most migrants traveling west on the overland trails

D. found the journey to be a very collective experience.

13. The presidential election of 1844

C. was won by a Democrat.

14. In 1844, President James K. Polk supported the acquisition of

D. Oregon and Texas

15. As president, James K. Polk

E. None of these answers is correct

16. In 1845, the immediate cause of war with Mexico was

A. a dispute over territory.

17. The Mexican War resulted in large part from

A. the United States provoking Mexico to fight.

18. During the Mexican War,

B. American settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the United States navy.

19. The key to victory for the United States in the Mexican War was

D. Winfield Scott’s seizure of Mexico City.

20. Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States

E. agreed to pay millions to Mexico.

21. When President Polk received the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, he

C. angrily claimed that Trist had violated his instructions.

22. In the 1840s, regional critics of President James K. Polk claimed his policies favored the

B. South

23. The Wilmot Proviso

E. prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico

24. When it came to the issue of the extension of slavery, President James K. Polk favored

A. an extension of the Missouri Compromise.

25. In the 1848 elections, the new party that emerged as a political force was the

C. Free-Soil Party.

26. In the California gold rush,

C. upwards of ninety-five percent of the “Forty-niners” were men.

27. The Chinese who came to California during the gold rush

D. had aspirations similar to those of American participants.

28. As a result of the gold rush, by 1850,

C. California had a very diverse population.

29. In 1849, President Zachary Taylor favored admitting California

A. as a free state.

30. The admission of California into the United States was a divisive national issue because

B. California’s entry would upset the nation’s numerical balance of free and slave states

31. During the debate on the Compromise of 1850,

E. President Zachary Taylor suddenly died.

32. The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California

B. along with a strengthened Fugitive Slave Act

33. The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

A. intensified the debate over slavery.

34. In the election of 1852,

B. the Free-Soil Party gained strength.

35. In the 1850s, in an effort to undercut the Fugitive Slave Act, some northern states

C. passed laws preventing the deportation of fugitive slaves.

36. In the 1850s, the “Young America” movement

B. supported the expansion of American democracy throughout the world.

37. The 1854 Ostend Manifesto

C. was part of an attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba

38. In the 1850s, the issue of slavery complicated the proposal to build a transcontinental

railroad, as

B. non-slaveowning northerners and slaveowning southerners could not agree on a route.

39. The 1853 Gadsden Purchase

E. cost the United States government $25 million.

40. Which of the following statements regarding the Kansas-Nebraska Act is FALSE?

E. It was sponsored by Henry Clay

41. The political party that came into being largely in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act was

the

A. Republican Party.

43. The 1856 beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate

B. was a vicious assault carried out by a member of the House of Representatives.

44. The ideology of Free-Soil included

A. opposition to the expansion of slavery

45. Southern defenders of slavery made all the following arguments EXCEPT that

D. black codes protected slaves from abuse

46. In The Pro-Slavery Argument (1837), John C. Calhoun stated that slavery was

C. a “positive good.

47. The first Republican candidate for president was

E. John C. Frémont

48. The election of 1856 saw

D. former president Millard Fillmore in the running.

49. The Supreme Court ruling in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) held that

E. the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

50. James Buchanan

C. pressured Congress to admit Kansas under the Lecompton constitution.

51. The 1857 Lecompton (Kansas) constitution was

A. twice rejected by a majority of Kansas voters.

52. Kansas entered the United States

A. after several southern states had left the Union

53. In the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates,

E. Lincoln argued slavery was a threat to the growth of white free labor.

54. During the 1858 Abraham Lincoln–Stephen Douglas debates, it became clear that Lincoln

D. believed slavery was morally wrong, but was not an abolitionist

55. As a result of his 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln

A. gained many new supporters outside of Illinois.

56. Following John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, many southerners were convinced that

B. Brown had been given the support of the Republican Party

57. In the 1860 elections, the political party most deeply divided over slavery was the

E. Democratic Party.

58. In the election of 1860,

A. Abraham Lincoln was elected with much less than half of the popular vote.

59. In the election of 1860,

E. white southerners concluded that their position in the Union was hopeless.