Ch. 17 APUSH- 1/10/17
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 signed another similar national bank bill providing for a ¨Fiscal Corporation¨.
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
regain sovereignty over Texas and humiliate the hated yanquis.
As a result of the panic of 1837
several states defaulted on their bonds or repudiated them openly.
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 primary reason that the British government decided to compromise with the United States on the Oregon Country border was
the British government´s belief that the Oregon Country was neither politically nor economically critical to British foreign policy interests.
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 Congressman Abraham Lincoln and similar political allies in Congress to enact the so-called ¨spot resolutions¨ concerning alleged Mexican incursions.
In the Oregon Treaty with Britain in 1846, the northern boundary of the United States was established to the line of
49 degrees.
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 Christian missionaries to the Indians.
Arrange the following in chronological order: A.) Bear Flag revolt B.) Slidell mission rejected C.) declaration of war on Mexico D.) American troops ordered to the Rio Grande Valley
B.) Slidell mission rejected D.) American troops ordered to the Rio Grande Valley C.) declaration of war on Mexico A.) Bear Flag revolt
Arrange in chronological order the United States´ acquisition of: A.) Oregon B.) Texas C.) California
B.) Texas A.) Oregon C.) California
When the Mexican government secularized authority in California
Californios eventually gained control of the land from the Franciscan missions.
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 D.) Aroostook War
D.) Aroostook War B.) Webster-Ashburton Treaty A.) annexation of Texas C.) settlement of the Oregon boundary
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 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. government.
In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called
Manifest Destiny.
______ 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 joined with antislavery forces in the North to condemn the pact.
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 of undesirable British emigrants.
Which of these is NOT a true statement about the Californios?
The Californios found themselves consistently at the lowest rungs of California society, even below the Indians, during the early to mid-1800s.
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.
Texas was annexed to the United States as a result of
a joint resolution enacted by a simple majority in the House and the Senate rather than the two-thirds constitutional supermajority required of all treaties with foreign nations.
The Aroostook War was
a small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada.
Those people most adamantly opposed to President James K. Polk´s expansionist program in Oregon, Texas and the Southwest were the
abolitionists.
In the presidential election of 1844, the Whig candidate, Henry Clay
alienated both proponents and opponents of annexing Texas by issuing seemingly contradictory written statements about his view on annexing Texas.
The Californios´ political ascendency in California ended
as a result of the influx of Anglo gold-diggers and the waning of the pastoral economy.
The Whigs placed John Tyler on the 1840 ticket as vice president to
attract the vote of the states´ righters.
The British-American dispute over the border of Maine and Canada was solved
by a negotiated political compromise that gave each side some territory along the disputed border.
John Tyler joined the Whig party because he
could not stomach the dictatorial tactics of Andrew Jackson.
The Spanish Franciscan missionaries treated the Indian inhabitants of California
extremely harshly, as Indian inhabitants of California were required to toil endlessly as poor farmers and herders and often came down with serious, deadly diseases.
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.
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.
Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the
rich soil of the Willamette River Valley.
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.
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.
