Question 1
Which of the following is a category into which someone's reasons to immigrate could fall (THERES MORE THAN ONE ANSWER)?
A) social
B) religious
C) political
D) economic
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Question 2
The people heading west are called
A) schooners
B) explorers
C) enterprising
D) pioneers
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Question 3
Most of the emigrants began their journey west in which city and state?
A) St. Louis, Missouri
B) Cleveland, Ohio
C) Kansas City, Missouri
D) Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Question 4
Manifest Destiny is the belief that the United States was __________
by God to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
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Question 5
Match the correct term with the description that best describes it.
_____ This treaty gave the United
States control of Florida. 1. Convention of 1818
_____ This cost $10 million dollars
and gave the United States a 2. Adams-Onis Treaty
very small strip of land that was
needed for the southern
transcontinental railroad 3. Gadsden Purchase
_____ The boundary line between
British north America
and the United States. 4. Webster-Ashburton Treaty
_____ This treaty with Great 5. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Britain set the boundary
of Maine and Lake Superior.
6. 49th Parallel
_____ set the boundary between
the United States and
British North America.
_____ This treaty ended the
Mexican-American War
by Mexico ceding the
Southwest to the United States.
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Question 6
The Mexican-American War started when a few Mexicans ____________ a few Americans.
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Question 7
Select all the reasons below that caused people in the United States to want to go to war with Mexico (THERE IS MORE THAN ONE ANSWER).
A) A border dispute between Texas and Mexico
B) They didn't like the way Mexico ran their government and found it threatening.
C) They believed in Manifest Destiny and wanted to spread the American way of life.
D) Slave owners saw Mexico as a place to extend slavery.
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Question 8
Frederick Douglas was a famous African-American_______
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Question 9
An_________ is someone who wants a practice or institution to be stopped.
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Question 10
The people that were going to California to look
for gold were called__________.
