3/9 DCA Review 23-24

Which of the following answer choses are in the correct order according to the year they happened?

1845 -

1846 -

1861 -

1867 -

• • - Texas Annexation

  • - Mexican- American War Begins

  • - Civil War Begins

  • - Reconstruction Begins

• • - Mexican - American War Begins

  • - Texas Annexation

  • - Civil war Begins

  • - Reconstruction Begins

• • - Texas Annexation

  • - Civil War Begins

  • - Mexican - American War Begins

  • - Reconstruction Begins

• • - Texas Annexation

  • - Mexican - American War Begins

  • - Reconstruction Begins

  • - Civil War Begins

Which of the following significant events occurred in the year 1845?

• Texas gained its independence from Mexico

• Texas annexation; Texas becomes the 28th state in the U.S.

• The Louisiana Territory was purchased.

• The Texas Revolution ended

Which of he following statements is about the results of the Mexican- American War (1846 - 1848)?

Select the two correct

• the U.S. was expanded to the Pacific Ocean

• the slavery controversy was finally settled

• a permanent boundary as established between the U.S. and Mexico

• Mexico paid the U.S. for land, including California and New Mexico

Abolitionists opposed the Mexican War because they -

• believed the war was morally wrong

• were concerned about the spread of slavery to the west

• had an alliance with Mexico

• wanted to continue trading with Mexico

The Emancipation Proclamation announced that -

• President Lincoln had been assassinated

• the Civil War had ended

• the slaves living in areas that were rebelling against the United States were now free

• the southern states were freed from Union

On June 19, 1865, General Granger from the U.S. Army issued a proclamation declaring that all -

• enslaved people were free

• women had the right to vote

• taxes were increased

• African American could vote

On April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia -

• the "March to the Sea" was completed

• the Confederate forces defeated the Union forced and took many prisoners

• General Robert E. Lee surrendered, marking the end of the Civil War

• Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation

Which of the following areas on the map was ceded in the Mexican - American War?

• Area 1

• Area 2

• Area 3

• Area 4

According to the same map, by 1853 the United States achieved Manifest Destiny by stretching from -

• the Atlnatic Ocean to the Mississippi River

• The Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

• the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

• the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico

In the 19th century United States, many officials and politicians supported policies that favored their own region of the nation rather than the country's welfare as a whole. This was called -

• compromise

• federalism

• nationalism

• sectionalism