The goose Essay

Chapter 16-17

1. Which of the following statements most accurately reflects the position of Henry Clay, the Whig candidate for the president in 1844?
c. He ultimately advocated annexation of Texas if it would be accompanied without war with Mexico.
2. Which of the following prevented Texas from being admitted to the Union immediately after achieving independence from Mexico? b. Abolitionists who objected to the admission of another slave state
3. After 1840, the New England’s primary economic concern was c. Manufacturing of finished products
4. The doctrine of Manifest Destiny
a. it was America’s natural right to occupy all lands to the Pacific coast
5. The slogan “Fifty-four forty or fight” had to do with
b. the demand for the annexation of all of the Oregon country
6. The Mexican Was of 1846-1848 was fought primarily to
d. acquire California, New Mexico, and disputed territory along Texas’ southern and western borders from Mexico
7. Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner were leaders of b. unsuccessful slave revolts in the southern states
8. William Lloyd Garrison persuaded the American Anti-Slavery Society to enclose the concept of
c. immediate emancipation
9. The radical abolitionists who appeared in the early 1830s viewed slavery as
a. a great moral evil
10. The congressional “gag rule” stipulated that
d. no anti-slavery petitions would be formally received by congress
11. John Tyler joined the Whig party because he
b. could not stomach the dictatorial tactics of Andrew Jackson
12. The British-American dispute over the border of Maine was solved
b. by a compromise that gave each side some territory
13. Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the
a. Rich soil of the Willamete River Valley
14. The area in dispute between the United States and Great Britain in 1845 lay between
e. the Colombia River, the 49th parallel, and the Pacific Ocean
15. In his quest for California, president James K. Polk
e. first advocated buying the area from Mexico’
16. The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo ending the Mexican war included
e. United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico
17. Texas was annexed to the United States as a result of
b. President Tyler’s desire to help no troubled administration
18. The Aroostook War was the result of
d. a dispute over the northern boundary of Maine
19.The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into congress during the

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