Question 1

What did President James K. Polk want from Mexico in 1845 and 1846?

Accepted Answer

A)   A peaceful agreement similar to the Oregon compromise
B)   Mexican recognition of an independent Texas with a southern border at the Nueces River
C)   Acquisition from Mexico of California and New Mexico
D)   Access to the port of Matamoras
E)   All of these choices C

Question 2

Who argued that Catholics had a plan to send immigrants to the West to dominate that region?

Accepted Answer

A)   Lyman Beecher
B)   Frederick Douglass
C)   Sam Houston
D)   Stephen F. Austin
E)   Lucretia Mott A

Question 3

In the 1820s, what were "California bank-notes"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Gold coins
B)   Cattle hides
C)   Letters of credit
D)   Silver dust
E)   Mexican silver pesos B

Question 4

In the United States, which of the following was not a reason for opposition to the Mexican-American War?

Accepted Answer

A)   Mexico's army was four times the size of American forces and would therefore be unbeatable.
B)   The war was being fought over territory that the United States had never claimed.
C)   The president had undercut congressional authority by announcing that the war already existed.
D)   A mere border incident was being used as an excuse to provoke a war to acquire more slave territory.
E)   The president was precipitating the nation into a fathomless abyss of crime and calamity.

Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
John L. O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny

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Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Empresarios

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Question 7

How did immigration in the 1840s influence the balance of power between the Whig and Democratic parties?

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Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Californios

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Question 9

Why did Americans migrate westward to Mexico, California, and Oregon after 1815? Where did they come from? What were their experiences along the overland trail? Compare the experiences of white women, white men, and Native Americans.

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Question 10

What was the main reason most European immigrants came to the United States between 1815 and 1860?

Accepted Answer

A)   Religious freedom
B)   Reform urges
C)   Economic advancement
D)   Political freedom
E)   European military upheavals

Question 11

Compared to other immigrant women, Irish women were

Accepted Answer

A)   especially adept at farming.
B)   likely to marry early.
C)   more likely to enter the work force.
D)   more likely to keep their daughters out of the work force.
E)   None of these choices

Question 12

Which of the following was not one of the responses of American workers to the economic difficulties of the 1830s and 1840s?

Accepted Answer

A)   They attacked Irish Catholic immigrants.
B)   They struck for wage increases.
C)   They established rural republican townships.
D)   They attempted to form labor unions.
E)   They joined forces to buy factories and run them as cooperative, employee-owned companies.

Question 13

Along the overland trail, how did the duties of men and women compare?

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A)   Women drove the wagons, and men packed and unpacked them.
B)   Men milked the cows, and women helped in standing guard against Indian raids.
C)   Most women packed and unpacked the wagons in addition to performing their traditional duties.
D)   Men and women shared all duties equally.
E)   All of these choices

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

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Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Zachary Taylor

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Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
José Antonio Navarro

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Question 17

Analyze the disputes between Great Britain and the United States in the 1830s and 1840s. Where and why did the two countries have disputes? Why did these disputes not lead to war? Explain.

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Question 18

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
San Francisco

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Question 19

What happened once Americans began to settle in the Mexican state of Coahuila-Texas?

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A)   They were initially happy to live in Texas as naturalized Mexican citizens.
B)   They brought slaves, which violated Mexico's 1829 ban on slavery and forced Mexico in 1830 to ban any further American immigration.
C)   There were a series of rebellions and eventually a bid for Texas independence from Mexico.
D)   All of these choices
E)   None of these choices

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Annexation of Texas

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Exam 13: Immigration, Expansion, and Sectional Conflict

What did President James K. Polk want from Mexico in 1845 and 1846?

Who argued that Catholics had a plan to send immigrants to the West to dominate that region?

In the 1820s, what were "California bank-notes"?

In the United States, which of the following was not a reason for opposition to the Mexican-American War?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John L. O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Empresarios

How did immigration in the 1840s influence the balance of power between the Whig and Democratic parties?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Californios

Why did Americans migrate westward to Mexico, California, and Oregon after 1815? Where did they come from? What were their experiences along the overland trail? Compare the experiences of white women, white men, and Native Americans.

What was the main reason most European immigrants came to the United States between 1815 and 1860?

Compared to other immigrant women, Irish women were

Which of the following was not one of the responses of American workers to the economic difficulties of the 1830s and 1840s?

Along the overland trail, how did the duties of men and women compare?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Zachary Taylor

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. José Antonio Navarro

Analyze the disputes between Great Britain and the United States in the 1830s and 1840s. Where and why did the two countries have disputes? Why did these disputes not lead to war? Explain.

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. San Francisco

What happened once Americans began to settle in the Mexican state of Coahuila-Texas?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Annexation of Texas