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Manifest Destiny Quiz

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1. What motivated the Young America movement?




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2. Why did John Tyler openly support the annexation of Texas?




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3. What pledge did the Austin exodus to Mexico break?




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4. How did John Calhoun delay the annexation during Tyler's term?




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5. Migration "west" was mostly a ______ enterprise because:




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6. The book states that the opposition party, the Whigs, opposed the war, yet they did nothing to stop it...why?




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7. What five advantages did the US have over its Mexican adversaries during the war?




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8. Why was Nicholas Trist fired by Polk?




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9. Who replaced Zachary Taylor in the war against Mexico?




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10. What did David Wilmot do that "opened a can of worms?"




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11. James G. Birney was the first Liberty Party candidate and he took enough Whig votes from Clay in New York to give Polk victory there and in the electoral college.




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12. Democratic senators from the Old Northwest accused Polk of betayal and voted against the treaty. They had supported Texas to the Rio Grande, and they expected Polk to support Oregon to 54 degrees 40'




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13. The three groups that did not conside ther "unbridled expansion" of Manifest Destiny good were the Native Americans, slaves, and Hispanics in the Southwest.




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14. Joseph Smith advocated polygamy, God spoke through him, autocratic suppression of dissent, and the belief that the Mormons were the only true Christians and would inherit the Earth.




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15. slavery.




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16. Joseph Smith advocated polygamy, God spoke through him, autocratic suppression of dissent, and the belief that the Mormons were the only true Christians and would inherit the Earth.




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17. Half of the opposition came from Democrats who wanted more Mexican territory and half from Whigs who wanted none.




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18. The reason why the timing was unusual about Zachary Taylor's victories was because they were before Congress even declared war.




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19. Volunteers from Southern states helped Houston defeat the Mexican Army and win independence most likely because they believed if Texas became a part of the United States, it would also become another slave state.




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20. Jefferson Davis became a hero at Taylor's last battle and he later married Taylor's daughter.





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