Bayou Bridges Unit 3 chpt 2

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What does this image represent?

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Manifest Destiny

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Which piece of evidence best supports the answer to Part A? Options: the Native Americans fleeing, the angelic figure headed west, the new forms of transport technology shown, the heavy clouds and mountains in the background

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the angelic figure headed west

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After gaining its independence from Spain, the Mexican government ________.

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moved troops into areas claimed by the United States

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Use the image to answer the question. This image is most closely associated with _______.

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Texas independence

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How did President James K. Polk provoke war with Mexico? Options: He allowed slavery to be practiced in Texas. He ordered U.S. troops to cross the Nueces River. He ordered U.S. troops to attack the town of Santa Fe. He refused to buy California and New Mexico from Mexico.

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He ordered U.S. troops to cross the Nueces River.

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Which of the following groups settled in the West to escape religious persecution? the Californios, the Exodusters, the Forty-Niners, the Mormons

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the Mormons

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Use the graph to answer the question. Which conclusion is supported by the graph?

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The discovery of gold in California quickly increased the territory's population.

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This invention helped make which of the following obsolete?
railroads,
telephones,
newspapers,
the Pony Express

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the Pony Express

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How did the U.S. government help in the construction of the transcontinental railroad?

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The government gave railroad companies a gift of ten square miles of land alongside each mile of track they built.

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Use the excerpt to answer the question. [It is] our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. —from John O’Sullivan’s Editorial on Manifest Destiny (1845) The ideas expressed in the passage contributed most directly to which of the following? Options: the American Civil War, the War of 1812, the passage of the Homestead Act, the Supreme Court’s decision in Worcester v. Georgia

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the passage of the Homestead Act