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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 Democratic Party.
E Constitutional Union Party.
Question #2
A the freedom of a slave could not be purchased by a black person.
B the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
C Scott must be freed under federal law.
D states were not allowed to abolish slavery within their borders.
E slaves were property unless they moved to a free state.
Question #3
A the argument that slavery was tremendously harmful to American blacks.
B a call to end slavery in the United States as soon as possible.
C an argument for black male suffrage.
D opposition to the expansion of slavery.
E the use of military force to suppress slavery.
Question #4
A None of these answers is correct.
B was readily accepted by northerners in the spirit of compromise.
C upset southerners as much as northerners, but was readily accepted by northerners in the spirit of compromise.
D intensified the debate over slavery.
E upset southerners as much as northerners.
Question #5
A more often worked as merchants than miners.
B had aspirations similar to those of American participants.
C found themselves banned from working in the mines.
D typically planned to remain permanently in the state.
E usually came with their families.
Question #6
A passed in the House and was signed into law.
B was an appropriation to pay for peace with Mexico.
C banned all slavery west of the Mississippi River.
D prohibited slavery in any land acquired from Mexico.
E overturned the Missouri Compromise.
Question #7
A agreed to pay millions to Mexico.
B established an American protectorate over Mexico.
C established an open border with Mexico.
D gave up rights to California (for a time) in exchange for New Mexico and Texas.
E officially acquired only Texas.
Question #8
A President Polk considered Zachary Taylor to be his closest ally in Mexico.
B American settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the United States navy.
C the actual fighting was confined to Texas and Mexico.
D President Polk tried to placate Whigs by minimizing military offensives.
E victory came more easily than President Polk had anticipated.
Question #9
A Mexico provoking the United States to fight.
B Mexican forces attacking Americans in California.
C the United States provoking Mexico to fight.
D Texas citizens staging an attack by Mexican forces.
E Texas citizens attacking Mexican forces.
Question #10
A U.S. expansion was acceptable so long as it stayed out of Mexico and Canada.
B None of these answers is correct, as all of these were beliefs encompassed by the ideology of Manifest Destiny.
C the growth of the United States should ultimately include much of the rest of the world.
D the United States was destined by God and history to expand in size.
E the United States should create a vast new “empire of liberty.”
