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