WorksheetsChapter 14 Quiz
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1. Which one of these has the least in common with the others?
a)
Tejano
b)
rico
c)
California
d)
empesario
2.
2. By 1840 all of the land east of the Mississippi had been organized into statehood except
a)
Wisconsin and Minnesota
b)
Florida and Wisconsin
c)
Maine and Florida
d)
Vermont and Maine
3.
3. The greatest spur to exploration of the North American continent from the 1670s to the 1840s was searching for
a)
furs
b)
water routes
c)
gold
d)
cattle land
4.
4. Which one of the following explorers is NOT correctly paired with the area explored for the U.S.?
a)
Pike/Colorado
b)
Powell/Grand Canyon
c)
Fremont/Texas
d)
Long/Great Plains
5.
5. In the early years, the U.S. government named the supposedly undesirable area of the Great American Desert as Indian Territory. This was the
a)
eastern edge of the Great Plains
b)
western part of Texas and Southwest
c)
Utah and Idaho territories
d)
northern Great Plains and Old Northwest
6.
6. Which one of the following was NOT a reason that the Indians lost the northern half of Indian Territory from the 1820s to the 1850s?
a)
faster than expected white westward expansion
b)
pressure of transcontinental railroad interests
c)
increased lobbying of fur trading interests
d)
increased travel on Santa Fe and Overland Trails
7.
7. Which one of the following has the LEAST in common with the others?
a)
Moses Austin
b)
O'Sullivan
c)
Manifest Destiny
d)
Thomas Hart Benton
8.
8. James K. Polk's belligerent slogan, "Fifty-four Forty or Fight," was a reference to U.S. claims to
a)
a Texas border at the Rio Grande, not Nueces
b)
California south to Baja
c)
Oregon to the Russian Alaska boundary
d)
New Mexico/Arizona border deeper into Mexico
9.
9. The Mexican government invited settlers like Stephen Austin's colonists because they wanted a buffer between themselves and the
a)
Spanish
b)
French
c)
Sioux
d)
Comanche
10.
10. Which one of the following was NOT part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
a)
California and New Mexico ceded to the U.S.
b)
U.S. paid Mexico $15 million
c)
Tejanos granted political rights
d)
Rio Grande established as Texas border
11.
11. Although defeated, the essence of the 1846 Wilmot Proviso was that in any territory acquired from Mexico, there must be
a)
an even number of slave and free states created
b)
adequate compensation to Mexico's citizens
c)
popular sovereignty applied to slavery
d)
no extension of slavery
12.
12. At the minimum, free soil meant
a)
status quo in the South but no slavery in new lands
b)
new states would choose by popular sovereignty
c)
extending the Missouri Compromise line to California
d)
no slavery west of the Missouri River
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