The present-day states of California, Nevada, and Utah were acquired in 1848 from —
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Spain
Mexico
Great Britain
Russia
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following would most likely be a strong believer in Manifest Destiny?
The owner of a textile factory in the Northeast
A slave on a southern plantation
A Native American
A farmer wanting to obtain new land
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Belief in the idea of Manifest Destiny was one reason that —
the United States went to war with Mexico
transcendentalists established utopian societies
the Bank of the United States was established
women organized the Seneca Falls Convention
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The President most associated with Manifest Destiny was ---.
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
James K. Polk
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the annexation of Texas in 1845, and the Mexican War of 1846 have in common?
They brought about a war with Spain.
They increased the territory of the United States.
Each resulted in territory annexed by the United States.
Each involved land forcibly taken from Mexico.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Northern opposition to the U.S. annexation of Texas was mainly caused by ---.
fears that the executive branch was controlling Congress
resistance to the expansion of slavery and Southern political power
opposition to expansionism and the use of American troops abroad
demands from Mexicans that their army be deployed north of the Rio Grande
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What geographic advantage did the United States obtain from the purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803?
warm water ports on the Atlantic coast
rich fishing areas in the Great Lakes
control of the Mississippi River
valuable coal reserves in western Pennsylvania
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