RHS Flashcard 5A - Manifest Destiny

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What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?

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Manifest Destiny

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What did the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the annexation of Texas in 1845, and the U.S.-Mexican War of 1846 have in common?

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They all increased the territory of the United States.

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In 1836, Texans fought for independence against what country?

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Mexico

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Mormons moved from New York to the West in the early 1830s in order to

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seek out religious freedom.

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President Jackson refused to annex Texas at first because doing so would have

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upset the balance between free and slave states.

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What states were part of the Mexican Cession? Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada

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California, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada

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What year did the most miners rush to California?

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1849

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The advice in the excerpt most directly reflects the influence of which of the following prevailing American ideas?

• Isolationism

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• Popular sovereignty

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• Manifest Destiny

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• Nationalism

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Manifest Destiny

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Which of the following factors best explains the territorial expansion of slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century?

• The Mexican-American War incorporated extensive new lands into the United States.

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• The belief in Manifest Destiny encouraged settlers to move to the East.

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• The rise of industry in the North created more demand for raw materials such as cotton.

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• The growing nativist movement sought to place restrictions on new immigrants.

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The Mexican-American War incorporated extensive new lands into the United States.

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Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in

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urban areas of the North