APUSH ch. 17

The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848), ending the Mexican War, included

United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico

The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president to

attract the vote of the states' rightists.

Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) Bear Flag revolt, (B) Slidell mission rejected, (C) declaration of war on Mexico, and (D) American troops ordered to the Rio Grande Valley.

B, D, C, A

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Californios?

Californios were at the lowest rungs of society in the early to mid 1800s.

The area in dispute between the United States and Great Britain in 1845 lay between the

Columbia River, the forty-ninth parallel, and the Pacific Ocean.

Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) annexation of Texas, (B) Webster-Ashburton Treaty, (C) settlement of the Oregon boundary, and (D) Aroostook War.

D, B, A, C

The earliest known use of the term Manifest Destiny was in 1845 by

John L. O'Sullivan.

All of the following were legacies of the U.S. war with Mexico, except

Latin America solidified their friendly relations with the U.S.

In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called

Manifest Destiny

When the war with Mexico began, President James K. Polk

hoped to fight a limited war, ending with the conquest of California.

Those people most adamantly opposed to President James K. Polk's expansionist program in Oregon, Texas and the Southwest were the

antislavery forces

The Californios' political ascendancy in California ended

as a result of the influx of Anglo golddiggers.

All of the following happened after President John Tyler's veto of a bill to establish a new Bank of the United States except

he sent legislation to Congress for the creation of a National Bank.

One goal of Mexico in its 1846-1848 war with the United States was to

humiliate the bullies of the North by invading the U.S. and freeing black slaves

The election of 1844 was notable because

it was fought over the issue of expansionism.

As a result of the panic of 1837

several states defaulted on their debts to Britain.

The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that

slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States

The nomination of James K. Polk as the Democrats' 1844 presidential candidate was secured by

southern expansionists.

The British government desired a political and military alliance with the independent Republic of Texas because

such an alliance would limit the ability of the United States to achieve political and economic dominance over Latin America.

The Wilmot Proviso

symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories.

The largest single addition to American territory was

the Mexican Cession.

In 1846, the United States went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except

the impulse to satisfy those asking for spot resolutions.

The primary reason that the British government decided to compromise with the United States on the Oregon Country border was

their belief that the territory was not worth fighting over.

In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846, the northern boundary of the United States was established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of

49°

During the debate in Congress over President Polk's requested congressional declaration of war against Mexico, the Polk administration was frequently called on by ____ to respond to "spot resolutions", demanding to know where American blood had been shed to provoke the war.

Abraham Lincoln.

During an 1837 Canadian rebellion against Britain

America was unlawfully invaded by the British.

The group that was instrumental in saving the soil of Oregon for the United States was

American missionaries to the Indians.

Arrange in chronological order the United States' acquisition of (A) Oregon, (B) Texas, and (C) California.

B, A, C

When the Mexican government secularized authority in California

Californios eventually gained control of the land.

The only member of President Tyler's Whig cabinet who did not resign in protest over his policies was

Daniel Webster

When Northwesterners questioned why all of Texas was annexed but not all of Oregon, Oregon settlement supporters such as Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri responded that

Great Britain was a far more powerful nation than Mexico.

The first Old World Europeans to come to California were

Spanish.

All of the following were reasons why Britain was intensely interested in promoting an independent Republic of Texas except

Texas could become a location for the settlement of undesirable British emigrants.

Texas was annexed to the United States as a result of

a joint resolution rather than a treaty.

The Aroostook War was

a small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada

The British-American dispute over the border of Maine and Canada was solved

by a compromise that gave each side some territory.

John Tyler joined the Whig party because he

could not stomach the dictatorial tactics of Andrew Jackson

In the presidential election of 1844, the Whig candidate, Henry Clay

favored both the postponing and the annexation of Texas.

In his quest for California, President James K. Polk

first advocated buying the area from Mexico.

Relations between Britain and the United States in the 1830s and 1840s could be characterized as

generally tense, with periods of both violence and peaceful resolution.

One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation

might give more power to the supporters of slavery.

____ represented the group in North America that expressed the most vigorous support for the United States gaining political control of all of the Oregon Country.

northern Democrats.

Which of the following represents an accurate description of the response by Americans generally or a subsection of Americans to the Oregon settlement with Great Britain?

northwestern states joining with antislavery forces to condemn the pact.

Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the

rich soil of the Willamette River Valley.

President Polk's claim that "American blood [had been shed] on the American soil" referred to news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near

the Rio Grande.