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 statements characterizes American settlement in California before the mid-1840s?
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American settlement in California was fairly sparse during 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 into Texas became a major issue in the presidential election.
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How did pro-annexation Democrats engineer the annexation of Texas in 1845?
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The party approved it through a joint resolution, which required only a majority vote in both houses of Congress.
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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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The 1845 annexation of Texas provoked...
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the Mexican War.
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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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James K. Polk's declaration that American blood has been shed "upon American soil" was his call for...
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war with Mexico.
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What did the Wilmer Proviso, introduced in Congress in 1846, propose to do?
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Prohibit slavery in any territory the Unites 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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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 Slave Act by sponsoring
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personal-liberty laws.
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How did James Gadsden distinguish himself during Franklin Pierce's presidency?
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He bought a small amount of land from Mexico to facilitate a southern transcontinental railroad.
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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 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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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 negation of the Missouri Compromise were all consequences of the...
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Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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In an 1858 senate campaign speech, Abraham Lincoln...
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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
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asserted that settlers could exclude slavery from a territory by not adopting local legislation to protect it.
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Why did the Republican Party nominate Abraham Lincoln for the presidency of 1860?
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His egalitarian image would attract votes among farmers and workers.
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From 1864 to 1856, which of the following was the fundamental principle all Republicans agreed on?
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An absolute opposition to the expansion of slavery into any new territories
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