Deck 12: Manifest Destiny

Question 1

Which of the following did the United States receive in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

A) California
B) Oregon
C) Florida
D) Idaho

Answer 1

California

Question 2

According to the introductory video in section 12.2,what was the importance of the Battle of the Alamo?

A) It was fought by people with deep roots in Texas.
B) It ended the Texas war for independence.
C) It inspired Texans to fight harder.
D) It was a major victory for the Texans.

Answer 2

It inspired Texans to fight harder.

Question 3

As expressed by John L.O'Sullivan,the notion of Manifest Destiny linked American expansion to __________.

A) divine will
B) secular values
C) racial equality
D) economic exploitation

Answer 3

divine will

Question 4

According to the introductory video in section 12.1,who led a slave rebellion in 1831?

A) Henry Clay
B) Nat Turner
C) William Lloyd Garrison
D) Winfield Scott

Question 5

According to the introductory video in section 12.3,the notion of Manifest Destiny is linked to a belief in __________.

A) cultural relativism
B) global multiculturalism
C) American exceptionalism
D) American isolationism

Question 6

The war with Mexico occurred during whose presidency?

A) James K. Polk
B) William Henry Harrison
C) Ulysses Grant
D) Zachary Taylor

Question 7

Who led the Texans in their war of independence against Mexico?

A) Sam Houston
B) Zachary Taylor
C) John Tyler
D) Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Question 8

John L.O'Sullivan and James K.Polk would have both agreed that __________.

A) the land claims of Indians should be upheld
B) democracy opened the door to mob rule
C) isolationism should be the basis of U.S. foreign policy
D) America should expand to the Pacific Ocean

Question 9

According to the introductory video in section 12.4,how did the war with Mexico affect Ulysses Grant?

A) It turned him off of war completely and made him a pacifist.
B) It launched him to the national stage as the greatest general of all time.
C) It convinced him to fight only for causes that he believed were just.
D) It strengthened his commitment to the preservation of slavery.

Question 10

Which political party's foreign policy showed a greater enthusiasm for expansionism in the middle of the nineteenth century?

A) Democrats
B) Federalists
C) Whigs
D) Tories

Question 11

Who controlled Texas from 1821 to 1836?

A) Spain
B) Mexico
C) France
D) Britain

Question 12

In the decade after the Battle of San Jacinto,Texas was __________.

A) an independent republic
B) a U.S. territory
C) a Spanish province
D) a Mexican colony

Question 13

Where did the Turner rebellion occur?

A) Virginia
B) New York
C) South Carolina
D) Georgia

Question 14

Which of the following arguments would an apologist for slavery make?

A) Slavery is a political issue.
B) Slavery is morally wrong.
C) Slavery undermines equality.
D) Slavery civilizes Africans.

Question 15

Who was the Whig candidate in the presidential campaign of 1844?

A) James K. Polk
B) Henry Clay
C) John L. O'Sullivan
D) Zachary Taylor

Question 16

Who led the American forces from Texas to northern Mexico?

A) Ulysses Grant
B) John Tyler
C) Winfield Scott
D) Zachary Taylor

Question 17

According to the video in the introduction,American expansion in the 1840s set the stage for __________.

A) war with Britain
B) war with France
C) the Civil War
D) isolationism

Question 18

Who played a key role in securing the admission of Texas into the Union?

A) William Henry Harrison
B) John Tyler
C) Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
D) William Lloyd Garrison

Question 19

Which of the following explains why a majority of the Senate opposed the annexation of Texas?

A) The United States was isolationist.
B) The Comanche Indians posed a threat.
C) Slavery was practiced in Texas.
D) Spain still controlled Texas.

Question 20

Which of the following describes a response to the Turner rebellion?

A) strengthening of abolitionism in the South
B) extension of legal protections for slaves
C) tightening of Virginia's slave code
D) deporting of freed slaves to Africa

Question 21

Who would have most likely agreed with the following statement?: "Hatred to slavery is very generally little more than hatred of negroes."

A) George Fitzhugh
B) Henry Watson
C) William Lloyd Garrison
D) Henry Clay

Question 22

Whose perspective is reflected in the following statement?: "More forcibly did I then feel the galling chains of slavery,the cruelty and barbarism arising from it,than I ever have since."

A) slave trader
B) slaveholder
C) Southern apologist
D) African slave

Question 23

The overland route from the American East to California involved crossing the

A) Rocky Mountains
B) Rio Grande River
C) Nueces River
D) Atlantic Ocean

Question 24

What was George Fitzhugh's academic specialty?

A) sociology
B) psychology
C) anthropology
D) political science

Question 25

According to the Past and Present video in section 12.6,critics of the notion of American exceptionalism accuse Americans of __________.

A) having a double standard
B) holding themselves to a higher standard
C) adhering to an isolationist foreign policy
D) allowing other countries to choose their own path

Question 26

Who was an important figure in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century?

A) George Fitzhugh
B) William Henry Harrison
C) William Lloyd Garrison
D) John Tyler

Question 27

How did the issue of slavery divide Americans between 1840 and 1850?

Question 28

Which of the following groups played an important role in publishing slave narratives in the nineteenth century?

A) slave traders
B) slaveholders
C) abolitionists
D) apologists

Question 29

In what ways were the justifications for slavery and expansion similar?

Question 30

According to the How Do We Know? video in section 12.6,who did Henry Watson meet when he was in Boston?

A) James Marshall
B) John Sutter
C) William Lloyd Garrison
D) William Henry Harrison

Question 31

Which of the following was a route from the American East to California that involved both ocean travel and overland transportation?

A) around South America
B) across the Arctic Ocean and down the Pacific Coast
C) to the Caribbean, across Panama, and up the Pacific Coast
D) across the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, and the Sierra Nevada mountains

Question 32

Which of the following characterized the frontier that emerged in California?

A) rural
B) stable
C) isolationist
D) cosmopolitan

Question 33

To what extent was the expansion of the United States in the middle of the nineteenth century more a result of greed than a reflection of divine will?

Question 34

In Henry Watson's autobiography,who was Mr.Denton?

A) a fugitive slave
B) a slave trader
C) an abolitionist
D) a senator

Question 35

The perspective of which of the following groups is reflected in the publication shown in the image?

A) Southern apologists
B) Northern abolitionists
C) Quakers
D) former slaves

Question 36

According to the introductory video in section 12.5,who made the discovery that triggered the California gold rush?

A) James Marshall
B) John Sutter
C) Henry Clay
D) Winfield Scott

Question 37

According to George Fitzhugh,the best form of slavery is based on __________.

A) economic disparity
B) racial difference
C) short-term contracts
D) long-term contracts

Question 38

According to the Arguing History video in section 12.6,which of the following provides the strongest evidence that American democracy has expansionist tendencies?

A) Whig Party
B) Battle of the Alamo
C) Civil War
D) Manifest Destiny

Question 39

What did George Fitzhugh call "slaves without masters"?

A) cannibals
B) heroes
C) fugitives
D) abolitionists

Question 40

Which of the following drew from his experiences as a former slave to oppose slavery?

A) George Fitzhugh
B) William Henry Harrison
C) William Lloyd Garrison
D) Henry Watson