Question 1

What do Texas and California have in common?

Accepted Answer

Former Mexican Territories

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Both depended on slave labor

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Large coal deposits

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Settled by Mormans

Question 2

What two states were a part of the Gadsden Purchase?

Accepted Answer

New Mexico and Arizona

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California and Arizona

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Nevada and Arizona

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New Mexico and Texas

Question 3

How did the US gain the Oregon Territory?

Accepted Answer

After a treaty with Britain

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Mexico sold it for $10 million

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Russia sold it for $15 million

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The US voted for annexation of Oregon

Question 4

What goal did the US achieve after gaining the Oregon Territory?

Accepted Answer

Completed expansion westward to the Pacific

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Gained land for the Southwest railroad

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Secured the Southern border of the US

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Gained the Western territories for the Native Americans

Question 5

Why was there a large immigration of Irish in the 1800s?

Accepted Answer

Potato crop famine

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Civil War between Catholics and Protestants

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Unemployment from British mercantilism

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Political unrest in Ireland

Question 6

Why was there a large migration of Chinese in the mid 1800s to the US?

Accepted Answer

The US had an economic boom and lots of jobs

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Potato Famine in Ireland

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Religious Freedom

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Free land in the Midwest

Question 7

How did James K. Polk manage to become the 11th President of the United States.

Accepted Answer

He promised to fulfill the United States goal of "Manifest Destiny"

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He opposed slavery west of the Mississippi River

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He favored voting in Kansas and Nebraska

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He didn't want to relocate the Cherokee

Question 8

Which land territory was a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Accepted Answer

Mexican Cession

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Oregon Teritorry

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Texas

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Louisiana Territory

Question 9

What land territory began the Mexican American War?

Accepted Answer

Texas

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Mexican Cession

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Louisiana Territory

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Oregon Territory

Question 10

Why did so many people migrate to California in 1849?

Accepted Answer

The California gold rush

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The Homestead Act

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The Cherokee were forced out

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Mormans wanted religious freedom

Question 11

What ended the Mexican American War?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Treaty of Ghent

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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Treaty of Paris 1763

Question 12

What law gave free land West to settlers?

Accepted Answer

Homestead Act

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Boycotting British Goods

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Annexing  Texas

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Purchasing the Gadsden

Question 13

What is the name of this painting?

Accepted Answer

American Progress

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The Beautiful Angel

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Homeward Bound

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Westward Expansion

Question 14

What principle of government does this picture represent

Accepted Answer

Separation of Powers

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Checks & Balances

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Republicanism

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Federalism

Question 15

What principle of government does this picture represent?

Accepted Answer

Checks & Balances

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Separation of Powers

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Republicanism

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Federalism

Question 16

Why was the 3/5ths Compromise agreed upon in the South?

Accepted Answer

Increased the South's power in government

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Decreased the South's taxes

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Established textile mills in the South

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Gave African Americans suffrage

Question 17

What is the First amendment?

Accepted Answer

Freedom of Press, Petition, Religion, Assembly, & Speech

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Speedy Trial

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No Search or Seizure

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No Cruel or Unusual punishment

Question 18

What is the 4th Amendment?

Accepted Answer

No Search or Seizure

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No Cruel or Unusual Punishment

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No Quartering of Troops

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Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, & Speech

Question 19

What is the 8th Amendment?

Accepted Answer

No Cruel or Unusual Punishment

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Speedy Trial

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No Quartering of Troops

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Right to Bear Arms

Question 20

Where were the Cherokee forced to relocate?

Accepted Answer

Oklahoma

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Texas

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Georgia

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Massachusetts

Question 21

What region of the United States grew cotton?

Accepted Answer

The South

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West

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Midwest

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New England

Question 22

What region of the United States was known for bread?

Accepted Answer

Middle Colonies

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The South

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The West

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New England

Question 23

What was the importance of the Transcontinental Railroad?

Accepted Answer

Connected the East to the West

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Connected the Midwest to Britain

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Created the Erie Canal

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Created a potato famine

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