Unit Test: Manifest Destiny

Name

1. Below is a famous painting depicting the concept of Manifest Destiny in the United States in the 19th century. All of the figures are moving to the LEFT in the painting because -

• a. There is no meaning; it's just how the artist painted the picture.
• b. "Manifest Destiny" referred to free Black individuals moving from the South to the North, and north is usually on the left side of a map.
• c. "Manifest Destiny" was the philosophy behind Westward Expansion, and west is usually on the left side of a map.
• d. American politics were moving to the left at this time.

3. What day is today?

4. Who were the Exodusters?

• European immigrants who settled on the Great Plains
• Plains Indians who were forced onto reservations in the 1800's.
• Former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains.
• Cowboys who worked long drives in the summer and odd jobs in the winter.

5. What traditional white American reasoning for Manifest Destiny does this quote illustrate?

• a. There were vast areas of uninhabited land in North America that could be shared by all groups of people.
• b. Indigenous groups were not "using" the land, which was rich in natural resources, so white Americans had the right to move in and develop the resources and natural wealth for the good of the American economy.
• c. White homesteaders claiming land that previously belonged to indigenous groups should reimburse those groups with legal mineral and lumber rights.
• d. The United States should end the practice of reservations for American Indians.

6. The phrase "Manifest Destiny" refers to the belief that:

• the US should be 2 separate nations
• the US should abolish slavery
• the US should expand across the entire continent
• the US should trade with Mexico and Canada

7. Based on the below excerpt and your knowledge from the unit, Lt. Col. William B. Travis was a(n) -

• a. American army officer in charge of the Trail of Tears.
• b. Texas army officer at the Battle of the Alamo.
• c. American army officer in charge of enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act in Texas.
• d. Mexican army officer fighting against the US.

8. The table below best describes -

• a. Andrew Jackson
• b. Sam Houston
• c. Stephen F. Austin
• d. Davy Crockett

9. Which country's actions upset the American settlers by forcing the Roman Catholic Religion and taxes on them?

• Mexico
• France
• Spain
• United States

10. Texas declared their independence from which country by signing the Texas Declaration of Independence?

• France
• Mexico
• Spain
• United States