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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 has 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 settlements in California before the mid-1840s?
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American settlement in California was fairly sparse in this period
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How did Oregon fever affect national politics in the United States in 1844?
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The possibility of expansion became a major issue in the presidential election
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The popular 1844 phrase "fifty-four forty or fight" served as what?
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A push for American control of the entire Oregon Trail
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The 1845 annexation of Texas provoked what?
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The Mexican war
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Which action did President Polk take in 1845 as part of his California strategy?
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Polk sent orders to the US 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 Slidell mission to Mexico in December 1845?
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It failed because Mexico had suspended diplomatic relations with the United States and refused to even see slidell
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In 1845 Texans claimed that their boundary extended where?
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To the rio grande on the south and west
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James K Polk's declaration that American blood had been shed upon American soil was his call for what?
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War with mexico
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What did the Wilmot Proviso 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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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 has 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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Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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It sparked an unprecedented discussion about race and slavery in the United States and abroad
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The northern states responded to the 1850 Fugitive slae act by sponsoring what?
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Personal-liberty laws
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In 1854 why did senator stephen a douglass 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 of 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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From 1854 to 1856 which of the following was the fundamental principle of all Republicans agreed on?
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An absolute opposition to the expansion of slavery into any new territories
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Which of the following scenarios occurred during the 1856 presidential election?
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James Buchanan was selected by the Democratic party for his apparent neutrality and low profile
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Which of the following statements describes President Buchanan's handling of the kansas issue?
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He tried but failed to have kansas admitted as a slave state and fractured the democratic party
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The creation of the republican party the Pottawatomie massacre and the negotiation of the missouri compromise were all consequences of the what?
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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In an 1858 senate campaign speech abe lincoln did what?
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Warned that the nation could not endure as a house divided against itself that is half slave and half free
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In 1858 in his so-called freeport doctrine stephen douglas did what?
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Asserted that settlers could exclude slavery from a region bu not adopting local legislation to protect it
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Why did the republican party nominate abe lincoln for the presidency in 1860?
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His likable and strong national image would attract votes among farmers and workers
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Which of the following actions best supports Greenberg's assertions in this excerpt?
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The lack of recognition of the tejanos following the annexation of Texas
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Which of the following was the most direct and historically significant result of the patterns Greenberg describes in the above excerpt?
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The mexican war
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The two excerpts above best understood in the context of what?
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Assertion of us power and expansionism in the western hemisphere
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The two excerpts quotes above would be most useful to historians analyzing what?
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The heated controversy generated by the acquisition of new territory in the west
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The sentiments expressed in the painting led most directly to what?
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Environmental transformation of the western region
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The ideas expressed in the painting above most directly reflects which of the following continuities in US history?
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A sense of unique mission and superior cultural identity
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A political party formed in 1851 that drew on the anti-immigrant and anti-catholic movements of the 1840s. In 1854 the party gained control of the state governments of massachusetts and pennsylvania
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American Party
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Laws enacted in many northern states that guaranteed to all residents, including alleged fugitives, the right to a jury trial
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Personal- liberty laws
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The 1857 supreme court decision that ruled the missouri compromise unconstitutional. the court ruled against the slave who brought the lawsuit and who claimed that travels with his master into free states and territories made him and his family free
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Dred scott vs Sanford
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A controversial 1854 law that divided indian territory into two separate states, repealed the missouri compromise and left the new territories to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty
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Kansas-Nebraska act
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Democratic candidate governor james k polk's slogan in the election of 1844 calling for American sovereignty over the entire oregon territory, stretching from caiforbia to russian occupied alaska and presently shared with great britain
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fifty-four forty or fight
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The argument presented by senator stephen douglas that a territory's residents could exclude slavery by not adopting laws to protect it
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Freeport Doctrine
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The more than eighty thousand settlers who arrived in california as part of that territory's gold rush
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Forty-niners
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Laws passed in 1850 that were meant to resolve the dispute over the status of slavery in the territories. Key elements included the admission of california as a free state and the fugitive slave act
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Compromise of 1850
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Term for the struggle between proslavery and antislavery factions in this state following its organization as a territory in the fall of 1854
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Bleeding Kansas
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A small slice of land purchased by president franklin pierce in 1853 for the purpose of building a rail line from new orleans to los angeles
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Gadsden purchase
