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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Republican Party.
B Know-Nothing Party.
C Whig Party.
D Constitutional Union Party.
E Democratic Party.
Question #2
A slaves were property unless they moved to a free state.
B the freedom of a slave could not be purchased by a black person.
C Scott must be freed under federal law.
D the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
E states were not allowed to abolish slavery within their borders.
Question #3
A an argument for black male suffrage.
B opposition to the expansion of slavery.
C a call to end slavery in the United States as soon as possible.
D the use of military force to suppress slavery.
E the argument that slavery was tremendously harmful to American blacks.
Question #4
A was readily accepted by northerners in the spirit of compromise.
B upset southerners as much as northerners.
C intensified the debate over slavery.
D upset southerners as much as northerners, but was readily accepted by northerners in the spirit of compromise.
E None of these answers is correct.
Question #5
A more often worked as merchants than miners.
B usually came with their families.
C typically planned to remain permanently in the state.
D found themselves banned from working in the mines.
E had aspirations similar to those of American participants.
Question #6
A prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.
B overturned the Missouri Compromise.
C passed in the House and was signed into law.
D banned all slavery west of the Mississippi River.
E was an appropriation to pay for peace with Mexico.
Question #7
A officially acquired only Texas.
B established an American protectorate over Mexico.
C established an open border with Mexico.
D agreed to pay millions to Mexico.
E gave up rights to California (for a time) in exchange for New Mexico and Texas.
Question #8
A American settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the United States navy.
B President Polk tried to placate Whigs by minimizing military offensives.
C the actual fighting was confined to Texas and Mexico.
D President Polk considered Zachary Taylor to be his closest ally in Mexico.
E victory came more easily than President Polk had anticipated.
Question #9
A the United States provoking Mexico to fight.
B Texas citizens attacking Mexican forces.
C Mexican forces attacking Americans in California.
D Mexico provoking the United States to fight.
E Texas citizens staging an attack by Mexican forces.
Question #10
A the United States was destined by God and history to expand in size.
B the United States should create a vast new “empire of liberty.”
C None of these answers is correct, as all of these were beliefs encompassed by the ideology of Manifest Destiny.
D the growth of the United States should ultimately include much of the rest of the world.
E U.S. expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada.
