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Chapter 12 Self-Quiz 1
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Once the Republic of Texas was freed by Santa Anna, Texans elected __________ their first president and called for the annexation of Texas to the United States.
John Quincy Adams
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Marcus Whitman
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Sam Houston
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Stephen Austin
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The primary obstacle to the achievement of U.S. statehood for Texas was
fear of reprisals by Mexico
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slavery
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the constitutionality of annexation
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the desire to mend relations with Mexico
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Preparations for migration from the Midwest to the West took up to __________, and families could expect to spend another __________ on the trail.
a year; six months
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a year; year
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six months; six months
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six months; year
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Travelers west funneled through St. Louis, crossed Missouri to rendezvous with wagon trains near St. Joseph or Independence, Missouri, and then followed one of two main routes west: either the __________, at the 42nd parallel, or the __________, along the Arkansas River.
Old Spanish Trail; Santa Fe Trail
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Oregon Trail; Old Spanish Trail
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Oregon Trail; Santa Fe Trail
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Santa Fe Trail; Oregon Trail
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The ill-fated Donner Party was caught in the __________ by an early winter; 42 of the 87 people in the party starved to death.
Black Hills
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Colorado Mountains
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Rocky Mountains
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Sierra Nevada Mountains
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White travelers who headed west thought of themselves as settlers journeying through U.S. territories; native Americans thought of these whites as __________ Indian country.
a temporary nuisance to
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a tolerable presence
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trespassers in
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welcome visitors to
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The Sioux, Pawnee, Arapaho, Shoshone, and Cheyenne nations resided throughout the
area along the Pacific.
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Northern and Central Plains.
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Northwest
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Southwest
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More than 250,000 settlers crossed the plains between 1840 and 1860; __________ were killed by hostile Indians.
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600
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800
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By the mid-1830s, federal policy toward Indians had begun to shift: later removals of Indians aimed more overtly at relocation culminating in
confinement to reservations owned by the U.S. government.
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individual ownership of land, rather than tribal ownership.
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prosecution for war crimes committed against white settlers.
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tribal ownership of land, rather than individual ownership.
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The most significant cause of decline in the population of western Indians after the arrival of white Europeans in their area was
access to guns and alcohol.
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decimation of the bison population.
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diseases against which Indians had no immunity.
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warfare
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Which of the following statements best describes Polk's presidency?
He succeeded in Mexico but failed to achieve his domestic policy goals.
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He was victorious in his major policy battles, but popular support for the Democratic Party eroded.
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He failed to achieve his foreign policy goals but succeeded domestically.
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He failed to achieve anything of note.
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The first Whig candidate to be elected president was
James K. Polk.
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John Tyler.
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Martin Van Buren.
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William Henry Harrison.
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President John Tyler's secretary of state negotiated the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which
allowed Great Britain to challenge foreign vessels.
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drew a northern boundary between the United States and Canada from Maine to the Rocky Mountains.
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drew a northern boundary between the United States and Canada from Maine to the Pacific Ocean.
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led to the annexation of Texas.
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James K. Polk won the presidential election of 1844 on a platform favoring
annexation for Texas and complete full occupation of Oregon.
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hard-money, anti-bank policies.
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opposition to the extension of slavery.
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the old "American System."
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war with Mexico and recognized the Rio Grande as the border of Texas and granted the United States the territories encompassed in the present states of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and
Alaska
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California
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Oregon
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Washington
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By 1839, some Americans were convinced that Texas was destined to become the "land of refuge for the American slaveholders."
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FALSE
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President Van Buren submitted Texas's request for statehood to Congress in 1838.
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For most white Americans, the fulfillment of America's manifest destiny was Texas.
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In the 1830s, missionaries headed west into Oregon territory because they had heard that Indian tribes of the West hungered for instruction in Christianity.
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Most of the migrants who headed west were farming families of moderate means, pushed out of the Midwest by the hard times of 1837.
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