APWH Chapter 30 Test

Fatt Hing Chin

a Chinese immigrant to the United States who panned for gold

The term "manifest destiny" is associated with what country?

The United States

In 1803, the United States doubled in size, after the Louisiana territory was purchased from

France

The native Americans who relocated from the eastern woodlands to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears were the

Cherokee

The last major native American victory against the United States armed forces came in 1876 at the battle of

Little Big Horn

The last major native American resistance was defeated in 1890 at the battle of

Wounded Knee

The main spark for the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in 1845 was the United States' acceptance of the new state of

Texas

The United States agreed to pay Mexico $15 million for Texas, California, and New Mexico as part of the Treaty of

Guadalupe Hidalgo

Which future state did NOT pass from Mexico to the United States as part of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Louisiana

Who was committed to free soil?

Abraham Lincoln

Which of the following was NOT one of the chief factors for the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War?

The traditional argument between a British or French alliance

The U.S. Civil War changed character on 1 January 1863, after

Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons for the victory of the northern states in the U.S. Civil War?

The union had better generals

The victory of the northern states in the U.S. Civil War meant that

The federal government would have greater authority in the American Republic

New France passed into British control after

The Seven Years War

The War of 1812

Stimulated a new sense of Canadian unity against an external threat

In America The U.S. invasion of Canada in the War of 1812

was repelled

Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were joined together as the Dominion of Canada

by the British North America Act of 1867

The first prime minister of Canada was

John Macdonald

Simón Bolívar succinctly summed up the developing political situation in Latin America when he said

I fear peace more than war

Caudillos were

regional military leaders who provided order in Latin America

Who called for regional autonomy in an attempt to reconcile competing interests in Argentina?

Juan Manuel de Rosas

Benito Juárez was

the leader of La Reforma in Mexico in the 1850s

Emiliano Zapata was

a Mexican agrarian rebel who fought for the goals of La Reforma

The early stages of industrial development in the United States depended in large part on investment capital from which of the following nations?

Great Britian

In terms of the industrial development of the United States in the late nineteenth century, the most important economic development was

The construction of railroad lines that linked all U.S. regions

The National Policy, which was designed to attract migrants, protect nascent industries through tariffs, and build national transportation systems was a policy in

Canada

By the 1860s, Britain's leading supplier of beef was

Argentina

Walt Whitman was

the author of the song of myself

After the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War, freed blacks

quickly lost their political and civil liberties in the South

After the U.S. Civil War, the southern states

underwent reconstruction

The lines, "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal," come from

Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention

In 1907, the United States government ordered a complete halt to migration from

Japan

Louis Riel was the leader of the

Metis

The Northwest Rebellion was led by

Louis Riel