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This 1854 law repealed the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 by letting settlers have the right to decide for themselves whether their state would be a free or slave state.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)
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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