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