Module 5 (1-3) Reading Flashcard

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What was the traditional starting point of the Oregon Trail?

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St. Louis, Missouri

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What is the best historical definition of manifest destiny?

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U.S. expansion is sanctioned by God and includes lands owned by other nations.

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Which of the following is not a cause of the Mexican-American War? Options: Mexican claims of the border at the Nueces River, American claims of the border at the Rio Grande, Failure of Mexico to sell territory to the United States.

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Comanche trade and diplomatic relations with New Mexican settlements.

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Which of the following was NOT part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? Options: $15 million payment to Mexico., Border fixed at the Rio Grande for Texas, California and New Mexico territory ceded to the United States.

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Gadsden Purchase for possible railroad usage.

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All of the following were effects of the California Gold Rush except: Demographic shift in population of California; Destruction of ecosystems along California rivers and streams; Fortunes made by individuals catering to the increase in population.

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American citizenship for all Californios.

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Which of the following was a cause of the Lecompton Constitution? Options: The members of a constitutional convention finishing a new proslavery constitution., Border Ruffians being repelled at the Missouri border., John Brown’s massacre of the proslavery community at Pottawatomie Creek., A territorial war which was named Bleeding Kansas.

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The members of a constitutional convention finishing a new proslavery constitution.

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What was the South’s biggest complaint concerning the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793?

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That it was not being enforced in the North.

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Which of the following was NOT a part of the Compromise of 1850? Options: Henry Clay negotiating one final compromise before dying, California entering the US as a free state, Texas was to keep slavery but gave up land to Arizona, Passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

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Texas was to keep slavery but gave up land to Arizona

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Which of the following was NOT a result of the ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Options:
Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
Free blacks cannot be considered citizens in a state.
Slavery could not be prohibited by the US Congress
Slaves had no standing to sue in court.

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Free blacks cannot be considered citizens in a state.

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What made the Ostend Manifesto so controversial?

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Northerners were upset over a plot to gain more slavery territories.