Deck 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Oregon fever

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Zachary Taylor

Answer 2

Answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
San Francisco Bay

Answer 3

Answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Stephen W.Kearny

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry Clay

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
David Wilmot

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Daniel Webster

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Hart Benton

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Tyler

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
independent treasury

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Winfield Scott

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lord Ashburton

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
annexation of Texas

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Abraham Lincoln

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John L.O'Sullivan

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John C.Frémont

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James K.Polk

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Slidell

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Manifest Destiny

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nicholas P.Trist

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Battle of Buena Vista

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
forty-ninth parallel

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
slavocracy

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"spot" resolutions

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Californios

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
California missions

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Rio Grande

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Columbia River

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Military Academy at West Point

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hudson's Bay Company

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Conscience Whigs

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Tariff of 1842

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Fifty-four forty or fight!"

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Liberty party

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Caroline

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"joint occupation"

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bear Flag Revolt

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Jimmy Polk's war"

Question 41

John Tyler was dubbed "His Accidency" by critics because

A) he was comically prone to minor accidents and injuries.
B) he was formally a member of the Whig Party but was really a Democrat in his views.
C) his time in office was characterized by mishaps and poor administration.
D) he became president through the death of his predecessor, William Henry Harrison.
E) his election was considered to be an "accident" of the three-fifths compromise.

Question 42

After President John Tyler vetoed a bill to establish a new Bank of the United States,

A) he was formally expelled from the Whig party.
B) it created a Constitutional crisis.
C) the House of Representatives impeached him.
D) Henry Clay left politics permanently in protest.
E) Congress overrode his veto and enacted the bank law without his support.

Question 43

Why did Americans in the early 1840s fear the continued existence of Texas as an independent republic?

A) They were concerned that Mexico would reclaim its lost territory and go on to threaten the American South.
B) They worried that Spain would try to regain a foothold in North America through a takeover of Texas.
C) It was a potential refuge for runaway slaves and Indian warriors who might plot against the U.S.
D) It was the object of various British and French schemes that threatened American interests and could lead to war.
E) They did not want a rival republic competing for the loyalties of Latin American nations.

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Aroostook War"

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Wilmot Proviso

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Colossus of the North"

Question 47

During an 1837 Canadian rebellion against Britain,

A) the United States stayed neutral in word and action.
B) Canadian rebels staged raids from American territory.
C) the British sank an American ship carrying supplies to Canadian rebels.
D) Canadian rebels were joined by Maine lumberjacks.
E) the U. S. government threatened to intervene and seize Canadian forts.

Question 48

Tyler and the Whigs managed to compromise on the

A) bill creating the third Bank of the United States in 1843.
B) Tariff of 1842.
C) Walker Tariff.
D) annexation of Oregon.
E) elevation of young Abraham Lincoln to Secretary of State.

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Canadian Rebellion in 1837

Question 50

John Tyler joined the Whig party primarily because he

A) saw a chance to become the party's nominee for vice president.
B) resented the dictatorial tactics of Andrew Jackson.
C) was forced to resign from the Senate.
D) believed in its pro-bank position.
E) believed it better represented Virginia's interests.

Question 51

The Aroostook War was the result of

A) a short-lived insurrection in British Canada.
B) the Caroline incident.
C) Canadian weapons and aid given to American Indians.
D) a dispute over the northern boundary of Maine.
E) a fishing dispute between Britain and the United States.

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Maine Boundary

Question 53

The only member of President Tyler's Whig cabinet who did not resign in protest over his policies was

A) Henry Clay.
B) Zachary Taylor.
C) Robert Walker.
D) Daniel Webster.
E) Millard Fillmore.

Question 54

The British-American dispute over the border of Maine was solved

A) by a short war initiated by American lumberjacks.
B) by a compromise that gave each side some territory.
C) when the territory in question was proven to be economically worthless.
D) by the Caroline incident.
E) by admitting Maine into the Union and New Brunswick into Canada.

Question 55

A major argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that

A) it could involve the country in ruinous wars with Britain and France.
B) it would add strength to the southern "slave power."
C) it would be far larger than any existing American state.
D) it would be better to retain an independent Texas as a buffer state.
E) it would lead to tensions and possible war with Mexico.

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Santa Fe Trail

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lone Star Republic

Question 58

The Whigs put Tyler on the ticket as vice-presidential nominee because

A) they wanted a stronger figure behind President William Henry Harrison.
B) he would attract northern votes.
C) he would attract the vote of the states' rightists.
D) a southerner would balance the Midwesterner Harrison.
E) he would vigorously oppose the Democrats' expansionism.

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Walker Tariff

Question 60

Arrange the following in chronological order: (A)annexation of Texas,(B)Webster-Ashburton Treaty,(C)settlement of the Oregon boundary,(D)Aroostook War.

A) A, B, D, C
B) B, D, C, A
C) D, B, A, C
D) C, A, B, D
E) A, D, C, B

Question 61

Which U.S.military commander proved to be the most distinguished in battle during the Mexican-American War?

A) Nicholas P. Trist
B) Stephen W. Kearny
C) John C. Frémont
D) Zachary Taylor
E) Winfield Scott

Question 62

From the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 until the 1840s,British and American settlers in Oregon

A) coexisted peacefully under joint occupation.
B) clashed repeatedly over control of the fur trade with local Indian tribes.
C) engaged in guerilla warfare over control of local salmon fisheries.
D) were fierce rivals in efforts to convert the indigenous tribes of the Columbia River valley.
E) managed to avoid conflict with the Russian authorities who claimed the entire Oregon territory.

Question 63

During the Mexican War,the Polk administration was called upon several times to respond to congressional "spot" resolutions demanding to know where American blood had been shed to provoke the war.The resolutions were frequently introduced by

A) Abraham Lincoln.
B) Henry Clay.
C) James K. Polk.
D) David Wilmot.
E) John Quincy Adams.

Question 64

Match each American officer below with his theater of command in the Mexican War.

A) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
B) A-3, B-1, C-4, D-2
C) A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
D) A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4
E) A-4, B-1, C-2, D-3

Question 65

The most powerful opponents of the annexation of Texas were the

A) States' Rights Democrats.
B) Radical abolitionists.
C) Conscience Whigs.
D) Californios.
E) southern mountain whites.

Question 66

The area in dispute between the United States and Britain in 1845 lay between

A) the forty-second parallel and the Columbia River.
B) the Cascade Mountains, the Columbia River, and Puget Sound.
C) the 36 30' line and the Columbia River.
D) the forty-ninth parallel and the 54 40' line.
E) the Columbia River, the forty-ninth parallel, and the Pacific Ocean.

Question 67

Texas was an independent republic for _____ years before becoming the _____ state.

A) ten; thirty-fifth
B) eight; sixteenth
C) nine; twenty-eighth
D) twenty-five; fortieth
E) fifty; fiftieth

Question 68

Along with territorial expansion,President James K.Polk´s successes included

A) the third Bank of the United States.
B) the Walker Tariff.
C) the settlement of the slavery controversy.
D) the resolution of the nullification crisis.
E) the Clay Tax.

Question 69

Texas was annexed to the United States as a result of

A) Senate approval of the Treaty of Annexation.
B) a joint resolution rather than a treaty.
C) a presidential order by Andrew Jackson.
D) the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
E) a compromise to admit free-state Iowa at the same time.

Question 70

Arrange the following in chronological order: (A)Bear Flag revolt,(B)Slidell mission rejected,(C)declaration of war on Mexico,(D)American troops ordered to the Rio Grande Valley.

A) B, D, C, A
B) A, C, B, D
C) D, B, A, C
D) C, A, D, B
E) A, D, C, B

Question 71

In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846,the northern boundary of the United States was established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of

A) 42.
B) 52 40'.
C) 54 40'.
D) 36 30'.
E) 49.

Question 72

Which coalition urged the United States to gain control over all of the Oregon Country?

A) The Liberty Party and British anti-expansionists
B) Conscience Whigs and southern Democrats
C) Northwestern expansionists and anti-slavery forces
D) Californians and Texans
E) Protestant and Catholic missionaries

Question 73

In his quest for California,President James K.Polk

A) openly threatened war with Mexico.
B) schemed behind the scenes to promote a revolution by the Californios.
C) was motivated by his knowledge of gold deposits there.
D) indicated his clear respect for international law.
E) first tried buying the province from Mexico.

Question 74

In the presidential campaign of 1844,the Whig candidate Henry Clay

A) opposed the annexation of Texas.
B) called for immediate annexation of Texas.
C) favored both the annexation of Texas and its postponement.
D) ignored the issue of the annexation of Texas.
E) favored dividing Texas into several states.

Question 75

When the war with Mexico began,President James K.Polk

A) advocated taking all of Mexico.
B) had secret plans to acquire New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah.
C) hoped to fight a limited war aimed at conquering California.
D) focused his strategy on invading central Mexico.
E) asserted that he had no intention of expanding slavery.

Question 76

President Polk's claim that "American blood [had been shed] on the American soil" referred to news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near

A) El Paso.
B) the Nueces River.
C) Santa Fe.
D) the Rio Grande.
E) San Antonio.

Question 77

In the 1840s,the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called

A) continentalism.
B) isolationism.
C) the Pacific Rim strategy.
D) Divine Mandate.
E) Manifest Destiny.

Question 78

In the election of 1844,the tiny anti-Texas,anti-slavery Liberty Party

A) helped Clay win the popular vote, but not the electoral vote.
B) made headlines with its radicalism, but no difference in the voting.
C) drew crucial votes away from Clay in New York.
D) helped Polk win the popular vote, but not the electoral vote.
E) finally made slavery an issue in politics.

Question 79

In addition to Mexico´s bitterness over the annexation of Texas,another point of contention between the United States and Mexico was

A) Mormon settlement in Mexican territory.
B) American Protestant missionary activity below the Mexican border.
C) a diplomatic dispute over Mexico´s ties to Russia.
D) three million dollars in American citizens´ damage claims against Mexico.
E) unpaid government debts left over from the Mexican war for independence.

Question 80

Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the

A) rich soil of the Willamette River Valley.
B) opportunities for fortunes in lumbering.
C) potential profits in the fur trade.
D) discovery of gold and silver in the Cascade Mountains.
E) hope of finding a better trade route to East Asia.