Chapter 7 - Manifest Destiny
1) By the time the Civil War began, more Americans lived west of the Appalachians than lived in
states along the Atlantic coast.
a) True
b) False
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2) Many emigrants headed for California and Oregon because they assumed that the Great Plains
contained poor land for farming.
a) True
b) False
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3) Many overlanders found their way by using guidebooks written by earlier emigrants.
a) True
b) False
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4) Frequent attacks by Native American warriors posed the main danger to the wagon trains.
a) True
b) False
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5) Stephen Austin was an empresario.
a) True
b) False
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6) The Mexican government assumed that the American settlers in Texas would eventually come
to see Mexico as their own country.
a) True
b) False
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7) When Haden Edwards declared the American settlements in Texas to be an independent
nation, he recruited
Stephen Austin to lead an American militia against the Mexican army.
a) True
b) False
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8) At their second convention, the Texas settlers recommended separating Texas from Coahuila
and joining the
United States as a new state.
a) True
b) False
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9) The Texans won their first victory against the Mexican army at the Alamo.
a) True
b) False
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10) James K. Polk agreed to split the Oregon territory with Great Britain.
a) True
b) False
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11) Mountain men played a vital role in western settlement because they
a) protected the wagon trains from Native American attacks.
b) taught emigrants how to steer the covered wagons over rocky ground.
c) supplied the wagon trains with food and clothing.
d) carved out several east-to-west trails that helped settlers move west.
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12) After winning independence from Mexico, most Texans voted
a) for annexation to the United States.
b) to make Texas a non-slave state.
c) to remain an independent republic.
d) to seek international recognition.
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13) The Bear Flag Republic came to an end when naval forces of the United States took
possession of
a) Santa Fe.
b) Mexico City.
c) California.
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d) Oregon.
14) According to the time line , ____ years passed between the Whitmans establishing a mission
and
the start of wagon trains making the trek to Oregon.
a) five
b) seven
c) ten
d) twelve
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15) The hope of finding land on which to settle drove some Americans, called __________, across
the continent.
a) squatters
b) trailblazers
c) overlanders
d) natives
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16) The Mexican government imprisoned Stephen Austin for
a) treason.
b) leading a rebellion.
c) murder.
d) violating a treaty.
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17) In the 1844 presidential race, former president Martin Van Buren lost his party's nomination
because he did not
a) want to annex Texas as a free state.
b) want to annex Texas as a slave state.
c) support annexation of California.
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d) publicly take a stand on annexation.
18) President Polk replaced Zachary Taylor with Winfield Scott as commander of the forces in
Mexico because he
a) disapproved of Taylor’s battle tactics.
b) saw Taylor as a potential rival in the 1848 election.
c) was angry that Taylor had disobeyed his orders.
d) wanted Taylor to serve as governor of Texas.
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19) Which did Mexico accept as the southern border of Texas in the treaty that ended the war
between Mexico and the United States?
a) the Nueces River
b) the Rio Grande
c) the Oregon Trail
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d) the California Trail
20) Review the diagram above. Of the four major battles of the war with Mexico, which was the final
decisive battle in the struggle for Texas independence?
a) Goliad
b) Gonzales
c) Alamo
d) San Jacinto
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21) According to the passage, which of the following was one of the greatest perils that overlanders
faced on the Oregon Trail?
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a) Native American attacks
b) fights between settlers
c) rough terrain
d) wild animals
22) In 1834 the Mexican government secularized its missions, meaning that it
a) gave churches permanent control over them.
b) sent Mexican soldiers to occupy them.
c) divided them up among Native Americans.
d) transferred them from religious control to civil control.
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23) After Mexican independence, American influence in the borderlands
a) increased.
b) was limited to California.
c) gradually faded.
d) disappeared.
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24) Which best describes Texas at the time of Mexican independence?
a) a territory that was disputed between Mexico and Great Britain
b) a sparsely populated buffer zone between the United States and Mexico
c) a territory struggling to break free of Mexico and gain independence
d) an independent nation known as the Bear Flag Republic
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25) In 1845 President Polk sent John Slidell to Mexico City as a special envoy, or
a) representative.
b) vice president.
c) soldier.
d) friend.
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26)
a
Sam Houston
a) first president of the Republic of Texas.
27)
e
Goliad
28)
d
Presidios
b) site of the Texans’ first victory over the
Mexican army
29)
c
San Jacinto
30)
b
Gonzales
c) site of attack that ended the Texas War for
Independence
d) frontier forts established by the Spanish
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e) site of the execution of more than 300 Texans
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31)
d
Brigham Young
a) mountain man and trailblazer
32)
a
Jim Bridger
b) patented the mechanical reaper in 1834
33)
c
John Deere
34)
b
Cyrus McCormick
c) engineered a plow with slick, sharp-edged
steel blades that cut cleanly through the sod
d) led the Mormons west to escape further
persecution
.
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Match the letter of each trail on the map to the correct name of the trail.
35)
c
California Trail
a) D
36)
d
Oregon Trail
b) A
37)
b
Mormon Trail
c) C
38)
a
Santa Fe Trail
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d) B
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39)
b
Cede
40)
a
Mestizos
a) persons of mixed European and Native
American ancestry
b) give up
.
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