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Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion: 1840s

Pregunta 1 de 7

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Manifest Destiny was the idea that God had given the continent to:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • White men, and expected them to bring Christianity to the Native Americans.

  • Americans, and it was the destiny to become the greatest nation in the world.

  • American, and wanted them to settle western land.

  • Americans, and it was their duty to protect the environment.

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Pregunta 2 de 7

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The immediate causes of war between Mexico and United States was:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the issue of slavery.

  • illegal immigration.

  • Mexican debts.

  • border disputes.

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Pregunta 3 de 7

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In the 1844 presidential race, candidate James K. Polk:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Annex Texas, Oregon and Louisiana.

  • Annex Texas and Oregon.

  • Buy Texas and Louisiana from Mexico.

  • Annex Texas , Oregon, and California, and buy Louisiana from Mexico.

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Pregunta 4 de 7

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Which choice best completes the diagram above:

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  • Claimed Mexico City.

  • Paid Mexico $15 million.

  • Paid debts to Mexican citizens.

  • Gave Oregon to Mexico.

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Pregunta 5 de 7

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Which did Mexico accept as the southern border to Texas in the treaty that ended the war between Mexico and the United States?

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  • The Nueces Rives

  • The Rio Grande

  • The Oregon Trail

  • The California Trail

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Pregunta 6 de 7

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Passage: "In them entire we have tried every effort at reconciliation... But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has... invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil..."
In this passage, Polk is:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Asking Texans to revolt against Mexican rule.

  • Urging Congress to declare war against Spain.

  • Seeking to annex California.

  • Justifying going to war against Mexico.

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Pregunta 7 de 7

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"Texas is now ours. Already, before these words are written, her convention has undoubtedly ratified the acceptance, by her Congress, of our profession invitation into the Union; and made the requisite changes in her already republican form of constitution to adapt it to the future federal relations.... It is the manifest destiny of Americans to overspread the continent allowed by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying million"

Based on this statement in the passage above, Jon Louis O'Sullivan probably believed that :

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Mexico was superior to the United States and would eventually retake Texas.

  • God has given the entire continent to Americans and wanted them to settle it.

  • Squatters should be removed from the land because they did not own it.

  • Americans should follow the rules set by the national Colonization Act.

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