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Between 1849 and 1852, the population of ________ more than doubled.
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In securing the Democratic nomination in 1844, ________ called for "the reannexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period" and the occupation of the Oregon Territory.
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Hoping the issue would boost his reelection chances in 1844, President ________ reopened the question of annexing Texas.
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Upon news of the Texas rebellion, Mexican dictator and general ________ hurried north to crush it with an army of 6,000 conscripts.
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The conviction that America's superior institutions and culture gave the United States a God-given right, even an obligation, to spread its civilization across the continent was expressed in the phrase ________.
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Write a history of American westward expansion from 1820 to 1860 from the Mexican point of view.
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Describe the culture and political organization of the Plains Indians. Discuss how and why their relationship with white Americans changed from the 1840s to 1851.
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Emigrants passing through Utah encountered a Mormon society that seemed "familiar and orderly, yet foreign and shocking." Explain.
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Contrast the different lives and tasks faced by pioneers on the agricultural, mining, and urban frontiers in the West of the 1840s and 1850s.
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What led so many Americans to sell most of their possessions and embark on an unknown future thousands of miles away in Oregon or California during the 1840s?
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Analyze President Polk's actions in handling the Oregon question. Was Polk lucky or smart in achieving a peaceful compromise with Britain?
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Was the American war against Mexico from 1846-1848 justifiable?
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From 1823 to 1845, Texas grew from a sparsely settled region of northern Mexico to an independent republic to a state in the American Union. Discuss the reasons for and the major events of this transformation.
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Justify American westward expansion in the 1840s.
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Discuss the status of foreign claims and possessions in the trans-Mississippi West from 1811 to 1840. Trace the development of American interests in the region during this era.
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In 1880, the California legislature passed a law banning intermarriage between a white person and an Asian person.
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As late as 1880, most large western cities counted more women than men.
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In 1860, nearly 3,000 Chinese lived in Chinatown, a large district in San Francisco.
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Most gold miners struck it rich and returned home wealthy.
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California was one of the most diverse places in the country during the 1850s.
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Most miners to California wanted to remain and settle permanently.
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Gold was discovered in California in the year 1849.
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From the very beginning of the 1840s, thousands of American emigrants on the overland trails lost their lives to hostile Indian raids.
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President Polk risked war with Britain over Oregon Territory by his refusal to accept less than a boundary set at 5440'.
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By 1835, almost 30,000 Americans were living in Texas, the largest group of Americans living outside the nation's boundaries at that time.
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Americans encountered a Spanish-speaking culture in all of the following places EXCEPT
A) New Mexico.
B) Texas.
C) California.
D) Oregon.
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The Plains tribes posed an obstacle to white settlement due to
A) skills in warfare
B) possession of guns.
C) possession of horses.
D) All of the above.
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Plains tribes that stood in the path of Anglo American westward expansion included
A) Cheyenne.
B) Apache.
C) Arapaho.
D) All of the above.
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All of the following are true regarding the Chinese American population in the 1800s EXCEPT they
A) were mostly men.
B) were able to become members of the legislature.
C) were fearful of white miners.
D) worked in a variety of occupations besides mining.
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Which of the following were major cities in the western United States in the 1800s?
A) San Francisco
B) Denver
C) St. Louis
D) All of the above.
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In 1850, prostitutes accounted for approximately ______ percent of the female population in California.
A) 20
B) 40
C) 60
D) 80
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Which of the following ethnic and racial groups were present in California during the 1850s?
A) Chinese
B) African Americans
C) Europeans
D) All of the above.
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Mining camps were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT
A) prostitution.
B) gambling.
C) large numbers of women.
D) heavy drinking.
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Which of the following areas experienced a gold rush in the 1800s in the United States?
A) South Dakota
B) Montana
C) Colorado
D) All of the above.
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Which of the following statements accurately describes the gold miners in California?
A) Most were unmarried men.
B) Most were young, in their twenties.
C) About 80 percent of them came from the United States.
D) All of the above.
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In contrast to the agricultural frontier, migrants to the mining frontier were more
A) successful in establishing local government.
B) intent on making a quick profit.
C) often married and older in age.
D) isolated from their neighbors.
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An obstacle hindering the organization of churches and schools in the frontier communities included
A) lack of determination to reestablish familiar institutions.
B) disagreements over the kinds of churches and schools to build.
C) geographic mobility of the settlers.
D) unwillingness to spend money.
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In Oregon, early settlers seemed most anxious and able to establish
A) a political system.
B) public schools.
C) organized churches.
D) social clubs.
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The first task facing pioneer farmers was to
A) plant a crop.
B) locate a suitable claim.
C) construct a crude shelter.
D) clear the land.
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In contrast to the travel journal of Robert Bode, the travel journal of Mary Stuart Bailey reveals a greater preoccupation with the
A) conditions of travel.
B) tools of survival.
C) availability of food.
D) absence of the familiar.
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For most emigrants on the overland trails,
A) a traditional division of labor persisted through the journey.
B) the trip proved novel and even enjoyable.
C) drawing up rules and electing officers prevented dissension.
D) difficulties multiplied as the trip lengthened.
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The Preemption Acts during the 1830s and 1840s
A) increased the minimum amount of public-land purchases.
B) reserved choice public lands for the political elite.
C) encouraged westward migration by protection of "squatters' rights."
D) offered free government land to prospective settlers.
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Perhaps most emigrants to the Far West were motivated by dreams of
A) bettering their lives by cultivating the land.
B) making a fortune by the mining of gold.
C) restoring their health by escaping debilitating sicknesses.
D) bringing Christianity and education to the Indians.
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Most of the emigrants who headed for the Far West were
A) white and American-born.
B) members of the poorest class.
C) slaveholders from the Deep South.
D) Asians, especially from China.
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Britain agreed to a division of the Oregon Territory at the 49th parallel so long as it retained possession of
A) the Columbia River.
B) Vancouver Island.
C) the Puget Sound.
D) the Willamette Valley.
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In reference to the Oregon question, President Polk
A) recommended a continued joint occupation with Britain.
B) supported a division of the territory at the 49th parallel.
C) exercised great tact and skill in achieving compromise.
D) demanded a "fifty-four forty or fight" resolution.
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Between 1842 and 1845 in Oregon,
A) most Americans located north of the Columbia River.
B) the number of American settlers gradually declined.
C) the British expanded their interests in the fur trade.
D) American settlers wrote a constitution and elected a legislature.
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In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), the United States agreed to
A) guarantee the civil and political rights of former Mexican citizens.
B) pay $10 million for large tracts of land in New Mexico.
C) collect all outstanding American claims against Mexico.
D) receive $15 million in reparations from Mexico.
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The town of Santa Fe was
A) settled by Americans in the 1820s to promote trade.
B) fiercely guarded and protected during the Mexican War.
C) captured and annexed by Texans in 1841.
D) occupied without a shot by American forces in 1846.
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All of the following factors nourished an American conviction that California must become part of the United States EXCEPT the
A) favorable position of California for the China trade.
B) ethos of Manifest Destiny.
C) desire of newcomers to blend into California society.
D) suspicion that other nations had designs on the region.
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In 1845, President Polk sent to Mexico City
A) Secretary of State James Buchanan.
B) General Zachary Taylor.
C) diplomat Nicholas Trist.
D) agent John L. Slidell.
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Democrats such as Stephen Douglas supported the annexation of Texas on the grounds that it would
A) expand the institution of slavery.
B) ease sectional tensions within the United States.
C) secure the reelection of John Tyler.
D) spread the benefits of American civilization.
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With the victory at San Jacinto in 1836, Texas
A) won recognition from the Mexican Congress.
B) lost heroes Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie.
C) gained its independence from Mexico.
D) secured admission to the United States.
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As a result of Mexican restrictions in Texas, American settlers there
A) freed their slaves.
B) disallowed further American immigration.
C) plotted a revolution.
D) converted to Roman Catholicism.
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In the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, the United States
A) accepted a southern border excluding Texas.
B) purchased southern Arizona from Mexico.
C) recognized the independent Republic of Fredonia.
D) surrendered its claims to Florida.
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The slogan "Manifest Destiny" referred to the conviction of Americans in the 1840s that the United States had a(n)
A) God-given right to exist as a nation.
B) opportunity to replace greed with benevolence.
C) obligation to spread across the continent.
D) mission to free slaves.
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In his popular Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (1845),Lansford Hastings
A) maintained that California belonged rightfully to the United States rather than Mexico.
B) applauded the concept of joint occupation of Oregon with the British.
C) defended the rights of Native Americans to certain lands of the Northwest.
D) provided both practical information as well as encouragement for frontier settlers.
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Eastern Indian tribes from the South and Old Northwest, whom the American government forcibly relocated in the West,
A) received permanent protection of their new lands.
B) served ironically as agents of white civilization.
C) strengthened Native American resistance to further white expansion.
D) converted the Plains Indians to agricultural enterprises.
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Americans were attracted to Texas in the 1820s by the
A) prospect of mining for precious metals.
B) flourishing trade in bison robes and cowhides.
C) lure of cheap land for cotton cultivation.
D) demand of Mexicans for American products.
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According to agreements made in 1818 and 1827, the United States and Great Britain
A) jointly occupied Oregon.
B) cooperated in the fur trade.
C) extended the slave trade.
D) engaged in joint explorations of the Northwest.
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In 1815, Spain held the title to all of the following present-day lands EXCEPT
A) Louisiana.
B) California.
C) Texas.
D) New Mexico.
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By 1860, the number of Americans living in the trans-Mississippi West
A) exceeded 8 million.
B).exceeded 6 million.
C) exceeded 4 million.
D) was approximately one million.
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The first American college to open its doors to men and women, blacks and whites, was ________.
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The ________ ushered in a depression that emptied the hopes and pockets of American workers.
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The ________, founded in 1834, was the first attempt at a national labor organization in the United States.
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Thomas ________ helped to found schools for the blind and deaf.
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In 1853 Charles Brace started the ________ in New York City that became a model of change.
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Alexander Graham argued that ________ should be eaten to preserve health.
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In the election of 1832, the National Republicans adopted the name of ________ to show their opposition to "King Andrew" Jackson and his supporters.
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The Cherokee remember their forced removal, during which perhaps a quarter of their tribe died, as the ________.
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In his famous essay Exposition and Protest, John Calhoun presented the doctrine of________, by which southern states could protect themselves from harmful national action.
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Protesting against slavery and the Mexican War, ________ refused to pay his taxes, went to jail briefly, and wrote the classic essay "On Civil Disobedience" (1849).
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As a result of the Second Great Awakening, the ________ church became the largest denomination in the United States by 1844, with over a million members.
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Discuss the beginnings of the women's rights movement in antebellum America.
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Despite factionalism and general public hostility, the antislavery movement in America gained significant strength by the 1840s. Explain why.
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Analyze the tensions that existed within the movement to abolish slavery.
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Discuss the various attempts at establishing utopian communities in antebellum America. Whether secular or religious, they all failed for similar reasons. Explain.
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Analyze the types of problems faced by a reformer in challenging the status quo.
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Discuss the roots of the reform era in antebellum America, the types of reform pursued, and the motivations of the reformers.
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Analyze the emergence and operation of the second American party system. If you had lived in the 1840s, would you have been a Democrat or a Whig? Explain why.