The Expansion Era test

What was one effect of the first amendment's promise of freedom from religious persecution in the 1700s and 1800s?

• It drove Europeans to emigrate to the US

• It caused infighting amongst the various religious sects that sprang up

• Certain protestant groups became very powerful in political arenas

• People abandoned their religions of the past to create brand new gods and worship practices

Professionals, craftsmen and businessmen immigrating to America drove

• competition with overseas markets for manufactured goods

• rapid industrialization and urbanization as they created businesses in cities

• population explosions in areas previously unsettled

• animosity towards immigrants from the existing settler population

Annexation of Texas by the United States was originally opposed because

• part of the Republic of Texas was comprised of land whose ownership was disputed by Mexico

• it was not just a territory but an independent country

• Texas being a slave state would throw off the balance of power between slave states and free states

• The US president couldn't come to terms with Sam Houston as the first Texas president

Polk divided the Pacific Northwest Oregon Country into free states why?

• To create more states so the US would seem like a larger power.

• Because critics didn't want any new territories to enter as slave states.

• As part of a compromise to annex Texas into the US in 1845 as a slave state.

• So there would be more free states than slave states and the balance of power would be disrupted.

What was the result of the disagreement between Polk and the Mexican government regarding Texas' border?

• The Rio Grande Compromise

• The Great River War

• The Texas Purchase

• The Mexican War

What concept allowed new states to choose if they wanted to be free states or slave states?

• Equitable agreement

• States rights

• Popular sovereignty

• Separation of church and state

What was part of the Compromise of 1850? (Check 2)

• Texas joined as a slave state, California was defined as a free state, and Utah and New Mexico would use popular sovereignty to decide later

• Mexico ceded lands for Texas, Oklahoma and Indiana

• Slaves that crossed from the South to the North could evade bounty hunters legally

• The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted to return runaway slaves to their masters

Free blacks and enslaved blacks were captured, denied trials and the right to testify was withheld due to what law?

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Plantation Law

• Right to Property Law

• 12th Amendment

The start of a transcontinental railroad that would go from California gold mining operations to the East resulted in what?

• A huge influx of Chinese workers to build the railroad

• Illegal occupation of native lands that were in the path of the proposed railroad

• The US purchasing more land from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase

• A rush to buy gold in the East as it poured in from California

Animal habitats were destroyed and herds important to Native American survival were scattered by whom on the Great Plains?

• Mexican soldiers

• Mormon settlers

• Irish immigrants

• British soldiers