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WorksheetsManifest Destiny FAC
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which statement best characterizes interactions between Native Americans and pioneers traveling west in the 1800s?
Most encounters were hostile.
Most encounters were friendly.
Violent attacks were common.
The two groups avoided contact.
What was one reason that Texans wanted independence from Mexico?
Mexico wanted Texas to become a Mexican state.
Mexico had banned American settlement in Texas.
Mexico promoted slavery.
Mexico charged settlers high fees for land.
Who were the forty-niners?
settlers who received 49 acres of land in California in the 1800s
gold-seekers who came to California in 1849
Catholic priests who built 49 missions in California in the 1800s
leaders who drafted a constitution for California in 1849
What is the concept of manifest destiny?
Mexico should allow slavery to exist in Texas.
The Missouri Compromise should be repealed.
America should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The British should turn over Oregon to the United States.
How did many women benefit from settling in boomtowns?
They faced fewer challenges and less hard labor.
They handled domestic duties for their households.
Mexican land grants made it easy for women to own land.
Few laws prohibited women from owning property or businesses.
What increased the pioneers' fear of Native American attacks?
refusal of Native Americans to trade with pioneers
distinctive customs of Native Americans on the trail
fiction about the West that exaggerated such accounts
experiences recorded by mountainmen and Mormon leaders
Who were most of fortune-seekers during the gold rush?
rancheros
Californios
single-men
immigrants
What did some New Englanders claim about the Mexican-American War?
It was a conflict important only to the South.
It was unnecessary and too expensive.
It was a scheme to expand slavery.
It was secretly backed by Spain.
Why did Spain prohibit the Tejanos from trading with the United States?
Spain wanted slavery in Tejas to end.
Spain did not like effects of the Monroe Doctrine.
Spain worried about U.S. influence on the Tejanos.
Spain feared any Native American–United States alliance.
During the 1840s some pro-slavery southerners opposed annexation of new western territory because they
worried that the new territories might ban slavery.
were concerned with the legal rights of Native Americans.
supported an isolationist foreign policy.
were worried the U.S. would declare war on Mexico.
Which of the following is true about the battle at the Alamo in 1836?
The battle lasted only one day.
Mexico suffered a harsh defeat.
All of the Alamo's defenders were killed.
The Texan army captured General Santa Anna.
Why did Presidents Jackson and Van Buren turn down Texas lawmakers’ annexation proposals?
They feared conflict with Mexico and upsetting the balance of slave and free states.
They felt that Texas would impose undesirable burdens on U.S. economy.
They opposed any policy favored by Democrats.
They opposed any policy favored by Democrats.
Although Biddy Mason entered California as a slave, she later
became one of the wealthiest landowners in California.
earned her freedom and joined the forty-niners at Sutter's Mill.
inherited a gold mine where she earned not only her freedom, but more than $200,000.
married an African American miner who found a rich gold deposit.
