Quiz #10

The foreign policies of President James Polk involving Texas, California, and the Oregon Territory were all efforts to

• remain neutral toward western territories
• continue traditional American isolationism
• weaken the Monroe Doctrine
• fulfill the goal of Manifest Destiny

During the 1840s, supporters of Manifest Destiny favored

• closing the frontier to settlement
• ending the American System
• acquiring Texas and California
• ceding the Oregon territory to Russia

A belief in Manifest Destiny is most closely associated with the decision to

• create the Bank of the United States
• suppress the Whiskey Rebellion
• declare war on Mexico
• build the Panama Canal

The annexation of Texas and the Mexican Cession are best described as efforts by the United States to

• remove European threats
• limit the spread of slavery
• end wars of aggression
• fulfill Manifest Destiny

In which war was Manifest Destiny used to justify United States government actions?

• Revolutionary War
• Mexican War
• Civil War
• Vietnam War

In the 1840s, President James K. Polk's belief in Manifest Destiny led to

• a war with Mexico
• an alliance with several South American nations
• the establishment of new colonies in the Caribbean
• a ban on the activities of northern abolitionists

What did The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) attempt to do?

• end fighting between farmers and Native Americans
• encourage manufacturing in the West
• increase the number of voters in elections
• settle disputes over the spread of slavery in the west

Which problem did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act attempt to solve?

• extension of slavery into western territories
• equitable distribution of frontier lands to farmers
• placement of protective tariffs on foreign imports
• need for internal improvements in transportation

Both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 settled conflicts between the North and the South over

• admission of states to the Union
• Supreme Court decisions
• presidential election results
• voting rights

Which term refers to the idea that people in the state should have the right to decide whether slavery would be legal in their territory? (the answer is popular sovereignty. please learn this right now. re-read the definition to yourself 3 times.)

• nullification

• sectionalism

• popular sovereignty

• southern secession