Deck 10: Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion, 1820-1860

Question 1

​Fifteen years after Joseph Smith was killed by a mob in 1844,Brigham Young led the entire Mormon population in a mass migration to Utah.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Which of the following groups established a town in Nauvoo,Illinois?​

A)Abolitionists
B)African Americans
C)​Mormons
D)​Native Americans

Answer 2

​Mormons

Question 3

​Which of the following occurred before the declaration of war against Mexico in 1846?

A)General Zachary Taylor's troops crossed the Nueces River.
B)A skirmish took place between Mexican and U.S.troops on the north side of the Rio Grande.
C)​U.S.troops seized Santa Fe in New Mexico.
D)​All of the above
E)​Answers A and B

Answer 3

​Answers A and B

Question 4

​What was the fate of most Forty-Niners who went to California in search of riches in the gold fields?

A)They returned to their original homes broke and broken.
B)They made just enough from their gold mining to continue searching for the big strike.
C)​They were families who had nothing to gain by moving to the new country.
D)​They went bust in the gold fields but remained in California and helped build up the territory.

Question 5

​Which of the following is not a true statement about the experiences of Native Americans after the War of 1812?

A) 
They lost the protection they had hoped for from the British​
B)They were tricked into giving up their land by fraudulent treaties
C)​Whites ignored tribal differences and lumped all native peoples together
D)​They found a genuine enemy in Andrew Jackson
E)​They were increasingly pushed off their lands and onto more remote,less farmable lands

Question 6

​The earliest move by the United States to expand the physical size of the nation was

A)The Gadsden Purchase
B)The Rush-Bagot Treaty
C)​The Louisiana Purchase
D)​The Ostend Manifesto

Question 7

​Congressional hearings were held in 1818 to examine Andrew Jackson's behavior involving

A)insubordination during the War of 1812.
B)his treatment of native tribes in the Southeast.
C)​the Peggy Eaton affair.
D)​accepting bribes from land speculators.
E)​reports of his marriage to a woman still married to someone else.

Question 8

Which of the following was not one of the terms of the Louisiana Purchase between the United States and France?

A)The United States would respect the rights of Native Americans living there
B)The amount of land the U.S.would acquire would equal 828,000 square miles
C)​The cost of the land acquired would be $15 million
D)​French settlers could retain their land in the territory by paying a small tax to the U.S.

Question 9

​About one in four of the eastern Cherokees died on the Trail of Tears.

Question 10

​Which of the following resulted from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

A)The United States received California,New Mexico,and Texas from Mexico.
B)The border between Texas and Mexico was set at the Nueces River.
C)​Mexico paid the United States $15 million for U.S.losses.
D)​All of these

Question 11

​Who is credited with coining the term Manifest Destiny?

A)Sam Houston
B)John Tyler
C)​Zachary Taylor
D)​John L.O'Sullivan
E)​Henry Clay

Question 12

​The Missouri Compromise of 1820

A)Maintained the balance of free and slave states in the Senate
B)Settled land disputes between white settlers and Native Americans in the Missouri territory
C)​Freed slaves in the Missouri territory
D)​Banned slavery in all new territories acquired under the Louisiana Purchase

Question 13

​Which of the following important events in Native American history occurred first?

A)Indian Removal Act
B)Treaty of New Echota
C)​Worcester v.Georgia
D)​Second Seminole War

Question 14

​Which of the following statements regarding Manifest Destiny is true?

A)Democrats in Congress and President Tyler supported the concept and the resulting territorial expansion.
B)Henry Clay proclaimed that Manifest Destiny was indeed God's will,and that if we did not follow His will,the country would suffer the consequences.
C)​The first area considered for expansion under the concept of Manifest Destiny was New Mexico.
D)​All of these

Question 15

​The United States government became directly involved in westward expansion in all of the following ways EXCEPT

A)It sent scientists and engineers to explore western lands
B)It promised free land to anyone who wanted to settle the frontier
C)​It sent military troops to safeguard desired lands and defend settlers from Indian attacks
D)​It set policies for transforming a territory to a state

Question 16

​Which native tribe developed its own alphabet and received praise for its "civilized" ways?

A)Cherokee
B)Creek
C)​Seminole
D)​Choctaw
E)​Iroquois

Question 17

​Why did President Polk instigate a war with Mexico?

A)To gain the territories of California and New Mexico
B)To move the border of Texas to the Rio Grande
C)​To gain a large piece of present-day Mexico
D)​Both to obtain California and New Mexico and to move the Texas border to the Rio Grande

Question 18

​Which Native American tribe is most noted for building cotton plantations,making its own alphabet,and owning slaves?

A)Seminole
B)Cherokee
C)​Choctaw
D)​Iroquois
E)​Creek

Question 19

​Which of the following statements regarding the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 is true?

A)It defined the final border of the continental United States.
B)It cost the United States $30 million.
C)​It gave the United States a clear route for the building of the southern transcontinental railroad.
D)​Both that it defined the final border of the continental U.S.and cost $30 million
E)​Both that it defined the final border of the continental U.S.and provided a clear route for constructing a southern transcontinental railroad.

Question 20

​Why was the war with Mexico notable?

A)The fact that the United States had an exceptionally strong navy
B)The number of military leaders who made names for themselves in that conflict
C)​The extremely small number of U.S.casualties
D)​Answers B and C
E)​​Answers A and B

Question 21

​Joseph Smith was the Mormon leader responsible for the Mormons' migration to the Great Salt Lake area that would later become Utah

Question 22

​The Cherokees adopted white notions of "civilized" behavior and customs as a strategy for retaining their land

Question 23

​Mexico gave up more than 600 million acres to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Question 24

​A sizeable number of Chinese immigrated after 1849,seeking to strike it rich in the California gold mines

Question 25

​The U.S.Supreme Court twice ruled in favor of the Cherokees and against their removal from their lands

Question 26

​Osceola was the leader of the Cherokees who resisted the forced march from native homelands and was captured and died in captivity

Question 27

​The phrase "fifty-four,forty or fight" refers to Americans' support for a war with Mexico

Question 28

Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo,the United States paid Mexico $15 million for the strip of land that finished the "building" of the United States and gave the country its final border with Mexico

Question 29

​The Ostend Manifesto proposed that the United States take Cuba from Spain by any means necessary

Question 30

The 1819Adams-Onis Treaty between the United States and Spain gave the United States a northern border to the Pacific Ocean,while Spain retained lands from Texas to California

Question 31

​The Panic of 1837 helped spur westward expansion.

Question 32

The Rush-Bagot Treaty ended the war with Mexico in 1848,with Mexico agreeing to sell California and New Mexico to the United States and to give up all claim to Texas in exchange for $15 million

Question 33

​From the time he took office as president,James Polk had his eye on acquiring massive amounts of land from Mexico

Question 34

​Manifest Destiny was the term applied to the belief that the United States was destined by God to spread across the continent from sea to sea

Question 35

​Sequoya was a Cherokee leader who developed an alphabet in his native language in 1821

Question 36

​John Sutter owned the land in California where gold was first discovered in 1848

Question 37

​The Forty-Niners were men who found a minimum of forty-nine pounds of gold during the California gold rush.

Question 38

​The Trail of Tears is the term used to describe the route used for the removal of the Cherokees during the 1830s.

Question 39

​The Louisiana Purchase tripled the size of the United States

Question 40

The 1846 Wilmot Proviso -introduced in Congress but never enacted-would have permitted slavery in any territory that might be won from Mexico as a result of war