Which president fulfilled Manifest Destiny by adding territory and fought a war with Mexico over expansion?
Question 1 options:
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
Henry Clay
Question 2 (1 point)
Manifest Destiny is a belief that America was only to expand to the Mississippi River.
Question 2 options:
True
False
Question 3 (1 point)
What territory was Polk referring to in his campaign slogan when he said, "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!"?
Question 3 options:
Texas
California
Oregon
Louisiana
Question 4 (1 point)
What territory was annexed in 1844 that Mexico viewed as their territory?
Question 4 options:
New York
Florida
Louisiana
Texas
Question 5 (1 point)
This was created by Henry Clay where Maine and Missouri would both enter the Union to preserve the balance of free and slave states in Senate.
Question 5 options:
Kansas Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
The Great Compromise
Question 6 (1 point)
This increased after the Mexican American War as tension rose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions.
Question 6 options:
unity
nonviolent protests
sectionalism
all of the above
Question 7 (1 point)
- Rio Grande new border between US and Mexico
-California and New Mexico are new territories of US
US paid $15 million to Mexican government
All of the above describe provisions of:
Question 7 options:
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Missouri Compromise
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Question 8 (1 point)
A swift and decisive war where the US gained Texas, California, and New Mexico.
Question 8 options:
War of 1812
Spanish American War
Civil War
Mexican War
Question 9 (1 point)
Please click ALL of the following who fought for the CONFEDERACY in the Civil War?
Question 9 options:
William T. Sherman
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Question 10 (1 point)
Who was president of the Confederate States of America?
Question 10 options:
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Question 11 (1 point)
This 1854 law repealed the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 by letting settlers have the right to decide for themselves whether their state would be a free or slave state.
Question 11 options:
Habeas Corpus
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Scott v. Sanford
Question 12 (1 point)
Which of the following is NOT true regarding the Compromise of 1850?
Question 12 options:
California would be admitted as a slave state
Slave trade abolished in District of Columbia
Citizens were required to return runaway slaves to their owners
New Mexico's voters could decide to be a free or slave state
Question 13 (1 point)
Who became president in 1860 leading the southern states to secede?
Question 13 options:
Johnson
Lincoln
Jackson
Hayes
Question 14 (1 point)
Popular sovereignty is when voters get to determine whether their state will permit or prohibit slavery.
Question 14 options:
True
False
Question 15 (1 point)
The ruling of this case was that no enslaved or free Black could be a citizen of the United States.
Question 15 options:
Marbury v. Madison
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Scott v. Sanford
Question 16 (1 point)
This man was a violent abolitionists who believed slavery would not end without bloodshed. He led a raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry.
Question 16 options:
Henry Clay
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Question 17 (1 point)
His main desire was to preserve the Union and that can be seen in his Gettysburg Address.
Question 17 options:
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Question 18 (1 point)
In this speech, Lincoln encouraged Americans not to seek revenge on slaveholders, their supports, or the Confederate military.
Question 18 options:
First Inaugural Address
Second Inaugural Address
Gettysburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation
Question 19 (1 point)
Saved
The occasion of this speech was the dedication of a military cemetery at a battlefield after 51,000 soldiers were killed there four months earlier.
Question 19 options:
First Inaugural Address
Second Inaugural Address
Gettysburg Address
Emancipation Proclamation