chapter 17 apush

In what year did John O'Sullivan coin the phrase Manifest Destiny?

1845

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 was expelled from the Whig party, all but one member of his cabinet resigned, an attempt was made in the House of Representatives to impeach him, Tyler also vetoed a Whig-sponsored high-tariff bill, he sent legislation to Congress for the creation of a National Bank

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

The group most supportive of gaining control of all the Oregon Country was the

northern Democrats

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

rich soil of the Willamette River Valley

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 Wilmot Proviso

symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories

The largest single addition to American territory was

the Mexican Cession

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

One reason that the British government decided to compromise on the Oregon Country border was

their belief that the territory was not worth fighting over

The Spanish Franciscan missionaries treated the native inhabitants of California

very harshly

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 Mexican War, the Polk administration was called on several times to respond to spot resolutions, indicating where American blood had been shed to provoke the war. The resolutions were frequently introduced by

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

When the Mexican government secularized authority in California

Californians eventually gained control of the land

Which of these is NOT a true statement about the missions in California: They became a combination of churches, towns, schools, farms, factories and prisons, Indians in the area were encouraged to adopt Christianity, In their early history, missions often forced Indians to work as farmers and herders, power was transferred from the missionaries to the Mexican government in 1821, Californians were at the lowest rungs of society in the early to mid 1800s.

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

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, the reply was

Great Britain was a far more powerful nation than Mexico

The earliest known use of the term Manifest Destiny was by

John L. O'Sullivan

All of the following were legacies of the U.S. war with Mexico, except: Mexicans have never forgotten that the U.S. tore away about half of their country, the war resulted in a negative turning point in U.S. relations with Latin America, it reinvigorated the slavery issue and debates about extending slavery, Latin America solidified their friendly relations with the U.S, roughly 13,000 American soldiers died, mostly from disease

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

The first Old World Europeans to come to California were

Spanish

All of the following were reasons why Britain was intensely interested in an independent Texas except: such a republic would check the southward surge of the American colossus, who posed a threat to nearby British possessions in the New World, clashes between Texas and America would create a smoke-screen diversion behind which foreign powers could move into the Americas and challenge the Monroe Doctrine, British merchants believed that an independent Texas could be an important free-trade area, to offset the tariff-walled United States, Texas could become a location for the settlement of undesirable British emigrants, the alliance would give abolitionists the opportunity to free slaves in Texas and inflame nearby slaves in the South.

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

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

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

might give more power to the supporters of slavery

a joint resolution rather than a treaty

The Aroostook War was

a small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada

Those people most opposed to President James K. Polk's expansionist program were the

antislavery forces

The Californians' political ascendancy in California ended

as a result of the influx of Anglo golddiggers

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

attract the vote of the states' rightists

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

by a compromise that gave each side some territory

John Tyler joined the Whig party because he

couldn't 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 nineteenth century could be characterized as

generally tense, with periods of both violence and peaceful resolution

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

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

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

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

might give more power to the supporters of slavery

Americans responded to the Oregon settlement with

northwestern states joining with antislavery forces to condemn the pact.

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

southern expansionists

Some people in Britain hoped for a British alliance with Texas because

the alliance would give abolitionists the opportunity to free slaves in Texas

In 1846, the United States went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except: the ideology of Manifest Destiny, the deaths of American soldiers at the hands of Mexicans, the desire to gain payment for damage claims against the Mexican government, the impulse to satisfy those asking for spot resolutions, Polk's desire to acquire California.

the impulse to satisfy those asking for spot resolutions