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