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1) During what time-period did the Sioux expand westward onto the Great Plains? Discuss
at least two factors that helped them expand.
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2) List three issues that led to friction between Americans in Texas and the Mexican
government before independence. How did each one increase tensions? Was one more important
than the others?
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3) Trace the events that led to the war with Mexico. How did American actions contribute to
the outbreak of war? How did Mexican actions contribute?
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4) Compare and contrast the experience of men and women on the Overland Trail.
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5) Which political party most strongly opposed the U.S.-Mexican War? Which geographical
area of the country most opposed it? In each case, explain why.
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6) Congress had to decide how to deal with the issue of slavery in the territory it acquired
after the U.S.-Mexican War. Describe the four options proposed for dealing with the issue.
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Topic : The Compromise of 1850
Learning Objective : Outline the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 and how they averted crisis.
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7) List the provisions of the Compromise of 1850. Which provisions favored the North?
Which ones favored the South?
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8) Identify at least three events that contributed to the rise of the slavery issue in American
politics in the 1840s. Why did each one have this effect?
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9) Explain the distinctive features of Chinese immigration to California.
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10) Why is it misleading to focus on the frontier only as the westward movement of whites?
Discuss the experiences of the Sioux, the Chinese, and the Mexican residents of the borderlands
in answering this question.
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11) Describe the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. Why did it arise in the 1840s?
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12) Compare and contrast the development of Salt Lake City and San Francisco. What
accounts for the differences between the two cities?
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13) Why wasn’t the Compromise of 1850 a true sectional compromise? How did this fact
weaken compromise in the future?
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14) The idea that America was predetermined by providence or fate to expand its boundaries
over most of the North American continent is generally known as _______ Destiny.
14) ______
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15) The government of the newly independent nation of Mexico invited U.S. settlers to
immigrate to its frontier border province of _______.
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15) ______
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16) The ________ country, jointly held by the U.S. and Britain, was divided between them in
1846.
16) ______
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17) The ________ Proviso was a proposal, introduced in Congress but never passed, that
would have banned slavery in any territories acquired from Mexico.
17) ______
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18) The one component of the Compromise of 1850 that was a clear concession to southern
interests was the ________ slave law.
18) ______
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19) The chapter introduction tells the story of the Sioux migration to the Great Plains to make
the point that
19) ______
A) the American ideology of Manifest Destiny meant manifest destruction for tribal
cultures.
B) Mexican advancement northward, as well as Anglo-American advancement westward,
put pressure on the indigenous Plains nations..
C) frontiers were multidimensional and mobile, involved a variety of peoples and
cultures, and ultimately proved as disruptive to the settled East as to the contested West.
D) the United States not only had to resort to war and diplomacy to expand its borders, it
also had to cope within its borders with native peoples who attacked the emigrants on the
Overland Trail.
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20) Which of the following was NOT a United States territorial acquisition in the 1840s?
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A) Texas
B) Oregon south of the 49th parallel
C) the area between the Rockies and California
D) the area between the Rockies and the Missouri River
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21) The doctrine of Manifest Destiny
21) ______
A) developed in the 1820s as a popular response to the Monroe Doctrine.
B) developed in the 1830s as a southern and western reaction against evangelical
millennialism.
C) was used to recruit Americans to migrate to Texas to protect slavery and U.S.
interests.
D) was used to justify U.S. expansion southward and westward.
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22) Which of the following ideas was Manifest Destiny NOT based on?
22) ______
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A) An underlying racism justified removing or subjugating any people group in the way
of westward expansion.
B) New lands would extend the domain of free government and free enterprise.
C) Conquest of new territory would prove American military superiority.
D) America had a specially ordained mission in the world.
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23) Manifest Destiny was a popular national creed, but there was a long-term cost. The
sectional crisis of the 1850s was precipitated not only by the rising abolitionist movement in the
North, but also by a question raised by expansion to the West:
23) ______
A) Will the transcontinental railroad link the West to the North or to the South?
B) Will more southerners or northerners settle the West?
C) What will be the status of slavery in the new territories?
D) Will westerners tend to vote Democrat or Whig?
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24) Three “frontiers” transformed the culture of the native plains people long before white
settlers pushed their settlement frontier west of the Mississippi River. Which of the following did
NOT contribute to this transformation of native culture on the plains?
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24) ______
A) liquor
B) firearms
C) the horse
D) disease
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25) Mexico’s northern frontier provinces developed
25) ______
A) with little influence or control from Mexico City.
B) according to plans conceived and directed by Mexico City.
C) under the predominant influence of the Catholic Church.
D) despite a failure of the Mexican government to provide incentives for settlement.
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26) In the early 1830s the Mexican Congress turned vast landholdings in the Mexican
borderlands over to
26) ______
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A) rancheros.
B) Catholic padres.
C) mining barons.
D) bureaucrats appointed by the central government in Mexico City.
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27) By the mid-1820s, Americans had established direct links with which Mexican province?
27) ______
A) Texas
B) New Mexico
C) California
D) All these answers are correct.
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28) The Overland Trail migration was primarily a(n)
28) ______
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A) exploration of the new Oregon territory.
B) young family enterprise.
C) movement of native peoples similar to the Trail of Tears.
D) extended family enterprise.
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29) Which of the following contributed to the growing discontent and eventual revolt of
Americans in Texas?
29) ______
A) the refusal of the Mexican government to accept tax payments from Texans
B) the government’s refusal to provide land for settlers
C) the Mexican government’s ban on Catholic churches in Texas
D) the Mexican government’s ban on slavery
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30) After successfully defeating the Mexican army, Texas
30) ______
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A) became a self-governing province within the Mexican federation.
B) forced the Mexican government to recognize its independence.
C) became an independent nation, unrecognized by Mexico.
D) was admitted to the United States.
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31) The trek west on the Overland Trail
31) ______
A) followed Lewis and Clark’s route across the plains; and established agricultural
societies that were deliberately different from those in the East.
B) evidenced traditional gender roles despite women’s quest to act like men; and once in
the West, the emigrants developed a new frontier society where women had little influence.
C) was difficult and stressful on everyone involved, but placed a special strain on women.
D) was plagued by periodic attacks by hostile natives, but the U.S. government refused to
provide a military presence before the Civil War.
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32) Native plains peoples responded to the increasing numbers of emigrants on the Overland
Trail by
32) ______
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A) demanding compensation from both the government and the emigrants.
B) refusing to trade with the emigrants.
C) attacking the wagon trains.
D) migrating away from the main corridor of travel.
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33) ________ initiated the politics of Manifest Destiny by pushing the annexation of the
Texan Republic. He did so because, as the first vice president to become president, he alienated
his own party leaders and had to find an issue that would attract popular support for his bid for a
second term.
33) ______
A) Daniel Webster
B) John Tyler
C) Millard Fillmore
D) James K. Polk
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34) Texas was finally annexed by
34) ______
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A) treaty with Texas when John Tyler first forced the issue.
B) joint resolution in early 1845.
C) joint resolution after Tyler became president.
D) treaty with Mexico at the end of the U.S.-Mexican War.
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35) Which of the following was NOT one of the three harbors on the Pacific that President
Polk wished to claim from Britain and Mexico?
35) ______
A) Puget Sound
B) San Francisco
C) Santa Cruz
D) San Diego
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36) The U.S.-Mexican War began when
36) ______
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A) the U.S. annexed Texas.
B) Mexico expelled an American diplomat.
C) Taylor’s force of Texans crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico.
D) American and Mexican forces clashed over disputed border territory in southern
Texas.
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37) What military technological advantage did the U.S. army possess that tipped the balance
in several crucial engagements of the U.S.-Mexican War?
37) ______
A) light artillery
B) the paper cartridge
C) heavy cannons
D) repeating rifles
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38) Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement concerning the consequences of the
U.S.-Mexican War?
38) ______
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A) The United States purchased California and the interior Southwest from Mexico.
B) The acquisition of new territories pushed the slavery issue to the forefront of national
politics.
C) The war temporarily unified the country as both parties and all sections supported
President Polk and approved the war effort.
D) A proposal was introduced in Congress to ban slavery in any new territory. Though it
never passed, the idea became central to the antislavery movement in the 1850s.
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39) A group of American settlers near Sacramento launched a revolt against Mexico; and in
June 1846 they proclaimed California an independent republic. This action was the
39) ______
A) “Bear Flag Revolt.”
B) Golden State Secession.
C) opening shot of the U.S.-Mexican War.
D) “second Alamo.”
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40) Had it passed, the Wilmot Proviso would have
40) ______
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A) divided Texas into five slave states.
B) prohibited slavery in any territory won from Mexico.
C) extended the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific.
D) given legal sanction to the doctrine of popular sovereignty.
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41) As settlers arrived in the far West, churches were not immediately established. Why?
41) ______
A) Most settlers of the far West were not very religious.
B) Religious worship was forbidden in the territories.
C) Population densities were too low.
D) Many of the initial settlers belonged to sects that believed in “home worship.”
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42) In what river did James Marshall find the first gold that was to start the California gold
rush?
42) ______
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A) Sacramento River
B) American River
C) Feather River
D) Pit River
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43) What city experienced explosive growth as a result of the gold rush in California?
43) ______
A) Saint Louis
B) Sacramento
C) Salt Lake City
D) San Francisco
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44) Why did many of the immigrant Chinese work in small businesses or the fishing industry
instead of working as miners?
44) ______
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A) They had greater experience with small businesses and fishing.
B) They were not harassed as much as in the gold fields.
C) The income was more steady, and they would be able to pay off their debts sooner.
D) All these answers are correct.
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45) Mormon settlements in Utah
45) ______
A) at first exhibited the typical character of a raw, disproportionately male, disorderly
frontier area.
B) at first developed as a scattered, unplanned series of refugee encampments.
C) were established as well-regulated communities dominated by church leaders.
D) were established on land grants obtained from the federal government.
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46) In the early nineteenth century, children of unions between native women and white
traders and trappers
46) ______
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A) came to preside over impressive personal empires.
B) found themselves cast out by both societies.
C) enjoyed particular advantages in eastern urban society.
D) mostly lived lives in wretched poverty.
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47) In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, what came to replace the fur trade as the
most lucrative opportunity the West had to offer?
47) ______
A) the acquisition of land
B) gold mining
C) salmon fishing
D) oil extraction
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48) How did the federal government encourage extermination of indigenous people in
California?
48) ______
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A) by rejecting treaties that might have provided native communities some land and
security
B) by providing headhunters military protection
C) by selling military equipment and guns to settlers
D) by spreading false rumors about gold in regions populated by native peoples
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49) Who prevented the genocide of California native peoples, despite devastating losses of
approximately 80 percent of the population?
49) ______
A) the federal government
B) the state of California
C) new environmentalist groups
D) California native peoples
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50) Which of the following was an important moderate or mediating position on slavery in
the 1850s?
50) ______
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A) Slavery should be abolished in the District of Columbia.
B) Enslaved people should be gradually emancipated (with compensation).
C) A territory’s voters should determine whether or not to permit slavery within its
boundaries.
D) Whichever position is most popular in a national vote should prevail.
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51) The doctrine of popular sovereignty was most closely associated with
51) ______
A) Stephen A. Douglas.
B) Daniel Webster.
C) Zachary Taylor.
D) David Wilmot.
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52) The antislavery message of the Free Soil supporters was first introduced in what form?
52) ______
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A) as a label for a new political party that attracted supporters from among both Whigs
and Democrats
B) as a proposed legislated policy: the Wilmot Proviso
C) as a method by which new territories would be organized in the Compromise of 1850
D) as a lengthy essay by a widely-read editor, William Lloyd Garrison
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53) In the 1848 election campaign, which party set forth a clear position on the slavery issue?
53) ______
A) Whig Party
B) Democratic Party
C) Free Soil Party
D) All these answers are correct.
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54) Which of the following was included in the aging Henry Clay’s proposed compromise
package to “escape from crisis”?
54) ______
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A) admission of California as a slave state
B) admission of Texas as a free state
C) abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
D) abolition of the federal fugitive slave law
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55) Which of the following was NOT an influential factor in securing passage of the
Compromise of 1850?
55) ______
A) Senator Douglas took over leadership of the pro-compromise forces.
B) The president, who had threatened to veto the plan, died.
C) Each bill was passed piecemeal, with different supporters.
D) Clay originally submitted the compromise as an Omnibus Bill.
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56) The final Compromise of 1850, originally introduced by Henry Clay as a single
“Omnibus Bill,” passed as five separate pieces of legislation. Which of the following was NOT
included?
56) ______
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A) California was admitted as a free state.
B) New Mexico was admitted as a free state.
C) Slavery was abolished in the District of Columbia.
D) Provisions for capturing enslaved people who had runaway were strengthened.
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57) A famous novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe rallied northern hostility toward one particular
component of the Compromise of 1850, the
57) ______
A) provision that Mormon Utah could decide for itself whether to be slave or free.
B) fugitive slave law, which allowed southerners to more easily reclaim those who had
run away from slavery.
C) re-drawing of the Texas boundary.
D) failure to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia.
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