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6-1 Lesson 3
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- Q1The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo forced Mexico togive up the northern region of their country to the United States.submit their plans for any territorial expansion to the U.S. Congress.recognize slavery in territories occupied by Americans settlers.pay the United States several million dollars in war reparations.30s
- Q2What was the main goal of the Gadsden Purchase in 1853?to facilitate a railroad across the continentto avoid further conflict with Mexicoto ease tensions between North and Southto expand settlements further west30s
- Q3Hard rock mining allowed wealthy investors to dominate the gold mining industry in California becauseit exploited poorly paid labor from China.it required expensive equipment and deep tunnels.it depended on railroads connecting to the East Coast.it was similar to placer mining.30s
- Q4The Wilmot Proviso disrupted American politics because itestablished land titles in Texas dating back to Spanish rule.tried to ban slavery in the South.created sectional divisions within each party.set Northern states against Southern states.30s
- Q5Californians wanted California to enter the Union as a free state becausethey wanted to tip the balance in Congress in favor of free states.they understood the injustice of slavery.there were already more slave states than free states.they did not want southerners using slave labor to find gold.30s
- Q6What geographic factor contributed to San Francisco’s growth after 1848?its roads and railroads leading to minesits abundance of land for farmingits good harborits proximity to mountains30s
- Q7How did hydraulic mining differ from placer mining?It used manual labor to extract gold.It led miners to look for gold in rivers and streams.It separated greater quantities of gold at a time.It removed gold from deeper in the ground than placer mining.30s
- Q8California statehood increased political tensions because itseemed to reduce the rights of the gold miners.threatened the congressional balance between slave and free states.threatened to turn California into a slave state.suggested that the territory would no longer be part of Mexico.30s
- Q9The key purpose of the Wilmot Proviso wasto secure southern Arizona and the New Mexico territories.to ban slavery in all territories gained from Mexico.to secure the southern border of Texas.to finalize the terms of Mexico's surrender.30s
- Q10From about 1850-1860, the American Indian population in California.....increased dramaticallyremained about the sameshowed a gradual increasedecreased dramatically30s