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Chapter 12 - From Sea to Shining Sea
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1
What event does the James Beckwourth quote below describe?
A mountain man rendezvous
Missionaries converting Native Americans
Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill
The Battle of the Alamo
2
What is the most likely source for the quote below?
Narcissa Whitman's journal
A pamphlet encouraging people to head to California
A member of the Donner Party
James K. Polk's inaugural speech
3
Why were Americans attracted to Santa Fe, New Mexico?
Trade
Religious freedom
Gold
Beaver pelts
4
With which country did the United States agree to divide Oregon?
Russia
Britain
France
Spain
5
What U.S. land acquisition is shown in purple?
Louisiana Purchase
Oregon Country
Gadsden Purchase
Mexican Cession
6
Who claimed "Mexico has...shed American blood upon the American soil" in order to start a war?
Santa Anna
James K. Polk
Abraham Lincoln
Sam Houston
7
Which of these is NOT true of the Gadsden Purchase?
It included portions of modern day Arizona and New Mexico.
It gave the US 800,000 square miles of French territory.
The US wanted the land to build a railroad.
The US bought this land in Northern Mexico for $10 million.
8
White settlers wanted Cherokee land for...
cotton and gold
cotton and rice
rice and gold
beavers and gold
9
Congressmen from the North and South argued about slavery when...
gold miners took the land of Mexicans.
mountain men led settlers west.
Utah wanted to join the United States.
Texas wanted to join the United States.
10
President Jackson
claimed
he wanted to move the Cherokee to
protect them.
help them adopt American ways.
end their wars against the United States.
help them hunt buffalo.
11
What finalized the current border between the United States and Mexico?
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Webster-Ashburon Treaty
Gadsden Purchase
Mexican Cession
12
What was the name for the 2,000 mile trail that started in Independence, Missouri?
Settler's Trail
Oregon Trail
The Trail of Tears
Santa Fe Trail
13
Which of these events happened AFTER the Mexican War started?
The United States offered to buy California from Mexico.
The term 'Manifest Destiny' is coined in 1845.
Gold was discovered in California..
The United States annexed Texas.
14
Which of these was NOT an effect of the Gold Rush in California?
People immigrated to the United States from China.
San Francisco's population increased dramatically.
Most 49ers became millionaires with little effort.
Vigilante justice was often used to fight crime.
15
Which idea is best represented by John Gast's painting
American Progress
?
Manifest Destiny
rendezvous
popular sovereignty
laissez-faire
16
What was NOT a reason people settled in the purple region?
The soil was good for farming
It had a hot, dry climate.
Furs were plentiful.
People tried to convert Native Americans.
17
How did Sam Houston try to convince Congress to annex Texas?
He threatened to stop exporting cotton to the North.
By tricking the US to think he would ally with Britain.
He promised the North he would end slavery.
He offered $10 million to the United States.
18
Which of the following was NOT a result of Manifest Destiny?
Native Americans expanded their landholdings
The US fought a war with Mexico
The United States acquired land to the Pacific
Slavery expanded
19
Which 1836
last stand
inspired Texans in their fight against Mexico/Santa Anna?
The Battle of the Alamo
The Battle of San Jacinto
The Mexican War
the California gold rush
20
What is the term for the belief that Americans deserved the land from Atlantic to the Pacific?
Manifest Destiny
the Oregon Trail
transcontinentalism
vigilanteism
21
Who won the presidency in 1844 running on a platform of national expansion?
James K. Polk
Henry Clay
John Tyler
Jedidiah Smith
22
What U.S. land acquisition is shown in yellow?
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
Oregon Country
Louisiana Purchase
23
What U.S. land acquisition is shown in light blue?
Louisiana Purchase
Mexican Cession
Oregon Country
Gadsden Purchase
24
What U.S. land acquisition is shown in green?
Oregon Country
Louisiana Purchase
Gadsden Purchase
Mexican Cession
25
Mexico quit allowing Americans into Texas because...
Americans did not follow Mexican laws
the Donner Party was not as fun as it sounded
Americans were Catholic.
they weren't bringing enough slaves.
26
The Indian Removal Act led to all of the following
EXCEPT
...
Americans no longer thought they needed to expand
the Trail of Tears
Five tribes were removed by force against their wishes
~1/4 of Cherokee died during removal
27
Which of these was
NOT
a reason people settled in Oregon in the 1800's?
beaver trapping
missionary work
fertile farmland
gold mining
28
Who did Texans dare to 'come and take' their cannon in Gonzalez?
Mexican soldiers
Comanche raiders
Osage warriors
forty-niners
