APWH Chapter 30

The United States gained western territory by all of the following means EXCEPT

• treaty with Britain.
• war and purchase from Mexico.
• treaty with Spain.
• purchase from indigenous people.

The term "manifest destiny" was used to describe the

• inevitability of American independence from Britain.
• superiority of the U.S. Constitution.
• inevitability of American dominion over all of North America.
• superiority of the northern states to the southern states during the Civil War.

At Wounded Knee in 1890,

• Colonel George Armstrong Custer was defeated by an army of Lakota Sioux.
• thousands of eastern Cherokee were crowded onto a desolate reservation in Oklahoma.
• Sioux warriors, emboldened by the Ghost Dance movement, attacked and massacred a community of white settlers.
  
• the U.S. cavalry massacred a settlement of 200 Sioux men, women, and children.
  

Which of the following is NOT a territory acquired as a result of the Mexican-American War?

• arizona
• california
• nevada
• oregon

The constitutional issue at the center of the U.S. Civil War was

• the balance of power between the president and the Congress.
• the balance of power between the state governments and the federal government.
• conflicting claims between the individual and society.
• the rights of immigrant labor versus the rights of slave labor

The Emancipation Proclamation

• freed all slaves in the western hemisphere.
• freed all slaves who took up arms against the southern states.
• had little immediate effect on the status of slaves.
• freed all slaves in the western territories. promised to free all slaves at the end of the Civil War.

British Canada gained a large French population as a result of

• France's loss of its Canadian colonies in the Seven Years' War.
• the flight to Canada of French Protestants in the eighteenth century.
• French citizens fleeing the Napoleonic wars.
• French fur traders being driven out of the United States.

Which of the following provinces was NOT part of the Dominion of Canada by 1900?

• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Nova Scotia
• Ontario

In Latin America, the road to a stable state was hindered by

• an elite conspiracy against the lower classes.
• the ignorance and apathy of the lower classes.
• sharp divisions among the creole classes.
• the caudillos' reign of terror.

The Mexican revolution was fundamentally a conflict between

• supporters of the Catholic church and anti-cleric revolutionaries.
• supporters of Emiliano Zapata and supporters of Pancho Villa.
• Mexican business interests and foreign investors
• conservative landowners and landless peasants.