22/23 DCA #3 Review

The primary reason the Civil War as fought was over the issue of

• tariffs

• slavery

• states rights

• trade with Europe

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

• they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

• they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

• he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

• he had a plan to raise taxes

putting the interests of a region/state above the country as a whole

• nationalism

• sectionalism

• patriotism

• pacifism

What is the economy of the South?

• trading and fishing

• mining & small farming

• industry & manufacturing

• plantations & slavery

Which state seceded first?

• Virginia

• South Carolina

• New York

• Texas

Which sentence best describes Manifest Destiny?

• The United States should not acquire Texas.
• The united States needed to compete for trade with Asia.
• The United States was meant to share North America with England and France.
• the United States had the right to settle North America from coast to coast.

Which of the following was part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Texas would be annexed to the United States as a free state.
• California would join the US as a slave state.
• Mexico would pay reparations to Texans for damage from the TX Revolution
• Texas gave up its claims to New Mexico in exchange for $10 million

What document created the Texas claim to a border at the Rio Grande?

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Velasco

Whose election pushed forward the Annexation of Texas?

• Zachary Taylor
• John Tyler
• James K. Polk
• William Henry Harrison

Before The Mexican-American War, Texas declared its independence from _____________.

• Canada

• Mexico

• Spain

• Europe