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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
