7th Grade Unit 3 Chapter 2 Study Guide — Extracted Questions

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What does this image represent? The image shows a large, glowing woman floating westward over settlers, wagons, railroads, and telegraph wires while Native Americans and buffalo retreat before her.

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Manifest Destiny and westward expansion

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Which piece of evidence best supports the answer to Part A? Refer to the image of the allegorical woman leading technology and settlers west as Native Americans and buffalo retreat. Options: Telegraph wires and a locomotive extend west alongside covered wagons, European ships sail across the Atlantic Ocean, A crowd gathers at a gold mine, Farmers harvest wheat in the eastern United States

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Telegraph wires and a locomotive extend west alongside covered wagons

Front

After gaining its independence from Spain, the Mexican Government ______.

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encouraged American settlement in Texas through land grants

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This image is most closely associated with ______. The image depicts a fortified mission under heavy attack with smoke and defenders on the walls.

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the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution

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How did President James K. Polk provoke war with Mexico?

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He sent U.S. troops into the disputed area between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande.

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Which of the following groups settled in the West to escape religious persecution? Mormons, Forty-Niners, Cowboys, Mountain Men

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Mormons

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What conclusion can you draw from this graph about California? The graph titled "Miners During the California Gold Rush" shows the number of miners rising sharply from 1848 to 1853.

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The Gold Rush caused a rapid influx of people to California

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This invention helped make what obsolete? The images show a telegraph key and a strip with Morse code.

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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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It granted land and loans to railroad companies

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The ideas expressed in the passage contributed most directly to what?

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westward expansion across North America