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What did nineteenth-century American expansionists mean by the term Manifest Destiny?

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The citizens of the United States had a God-given right to conquer the land to the Pacific Ocean.

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Which of the following made the Oregon Territory so appealing to Americans in the mid-1800s?

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Its mild climate and rich soil.

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Which of the following statements characterizes American settlement in California before the mid- 1840s?

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American settlement in California was fairly sparse in this period.

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What feature of the Lakota Sioux society protected it from the epidemics that decimated other Native American groups in the nineteenth century?

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Its small groups and nomadic lifestyle.

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The popular 1844 phrase "Fifty-four forty or fight!" served as...

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a push for American control of the entire Oregon territory.

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Which of the following was the critical issue facing political parties in the late 1840s?

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Expansion of slavery.

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Which action did President Polk take in 1845 as a part of his California strategy?

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Polk sent orders to the U.S. Navy in the Pacific to seize San Francisco Bay and other California ports in the event of war with Mexico.

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Which of the following statements describes the American invasion of Mexico in 1846?

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The Americans captured Matamoros, Monterrey, Tampico, and most of northeastern Mexico.

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Despite stiff Mexican resistance, American Forces also secured control of which future state in 1847?

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California.

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What did the Wilmot Proviso, introduced in Congress in 1846, propose to do?

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Prohibit slavery in any territory the United States acquired from Mexico.

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Which of the following statements describes the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

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The treaty purchased more than one-third of Mexico's territory for a mere $15 million.

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Americans who lined up behind the free-soil cause in the late 1840s...

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declared that slavery threatened American republicanism by undermining family farms.

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Which of the following policies was implemented as part of the Compromise of 1850?

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Passage of a new Fugitive Slave Act

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Popular sovereignty solved which of the following issues temporarily?

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Whether Congress had the authority to legislate slavery in the territories.

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Which of the following statements describes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

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It denied alleged runaways a jury trial or the right to testify in their own defense.

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The northern states responded to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act by sponsoring...

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personal-liberty laws.

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During the 1850s, proslavery American expansionists attempted to acquire which of the following regions?

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Cuba.

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In 1854, why did Senator Stephen A. Douglas introduce a bill to extinguish Native American rights in the Great Plains and organize the northern segment of the Louisiana Purchase into a large territory called Nebraska?

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He wanted to build a transcontinental railroad from Chicago to Northern California.

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The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act led to which of the following outcomes?

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 was repealed.

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Which of the following statements describes the American Party, or Know-Nothings, that emerged in the North in the 1850s?

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The American Party originated in anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic societies of the 1840s.

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Which of the following events took place in Kansas during the summer of 1856?

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John Brown and his followers murdered and mutilated five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie.

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The 1857 Dred Scott decision had which of the following consequences?

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The decision persuaded many Republicans that the Supreme Court and President Buchanan were part of the "slave power" conspiracy.

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The creation of the Republican Party, the Pottawatomie massacre, and the negation of the Missouri Compromise were all consequences of the...

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Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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In the aftermath of Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860, southerners feared that following...

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Lincoln would break his promise and interfere with slavery where it existed.

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President Buchanan responded to the secession crisis by...

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declaring secession illegal but claiming that the federal government had no power to reverse it.

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What was the Confederacy seeking to achieve with the war in 1861?

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Permanent independence and "to be let alone."

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On July, 1861, in a statement to a special session of Congress, President Lincoln...

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declared that the war was a noble crusade that would determine the fate of democracy throughout the world.

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Which of the following statements describes the significance of the Battle of Antietam?

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Lincoln removed McClellan from command after the battle for his timidity.

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The Civil War has been described as the first total war in modern times. A total war is defined as...

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one in which all the resources, including civilians, are mobilized for war.

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Why did President Lincoln decide to suspend habeas corpus during the Civil War?

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He believed it would stop disloyal activities, such as protests against the draft.

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Which of the following describes the purpose of the U.S. Sanitary Commission?

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It was a voluntary organization in the North that provided medical services, distributed supplies and medicines, and recruited physicians and nurses.

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Which of the following was the major cause of death for Civil War soldiers?

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Disease and infection.

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How did the Union raise money to pay for most of its Civil War costs?

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By issuing interest-paying treasury bonds.

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Which of the following statements describes the place of emancipation in the Union's war aims in 1861 and 1862?

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Moderate Republican leaders began to redefine the war as a struggle, not only against Confederate armies, but also against the institution of slavery.

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During the early years of the Civil War, the term "contraband" came into use to describe...

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freedom-seeking slaves who fled from Confederate masters to Union armies.

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The second Confiscation Act, passed in July 1862, declared that...

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any slave who came to Union lines, through either flight or capture, would be forever free.

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The Emancipation Proclamation stated that...

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slaves in the rebel states would be freed.

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Which pair of battles marked the turning point in the Civil War?

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Vicksburg and Gettysburg.

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Why was the South unable to convince England to provide it with more support during the Civil War?

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England needed Union wheat more than the South's cotton.

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Why was the enlistment of African Americans in the Union army and their deployment in battle delayed until 1863?

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Most Union generals doubted that they would make good soldiers.

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Which of the following statements characterizes the role played by African Americans in the Civil War?

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African Americans served in segregated regiments and fought courageously.

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Approved by Congress in January 1865, the 13th Amendment...

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prohibited slavery throughout the United States.

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Why did so many Confederate soldiers flee their units by 1865?

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Poor white soldiers resented fighting for the benefit of wealthy slave owners.

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