31 Americas

Question 0

The term “manifest destiny” is associated with what country?

Answer 0

US

Question 1

Fatt Hing Chin was

Answer 1

Chinese immigrant to the United States who panned for gold.

Question 2

1803, the United States doubled in size, after the Louisiana territory was purchased from

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France

Question 3

The native Americans who relocated from the eastern woodlands to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears were the

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Cherokee

Question 4

The last major native American victory against the United States armed forces came in 1876 at the battle of

Answer 4

Little big horn

Question 5

last major native American resistance was defeated in 1890 at the battle of

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Wounded knee

Question 6

main spark for the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in 1845 was the United States’ acceptance of the new state of

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Texas

Question 7

The United States agreed to pay Mexico $15 million for Texas, California, and New Mexico as part of the Treaty of

Answer 7

Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question 8

future state did NOT pass from Mexico to the United States as part of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Answer 8

Louisiana

Question 9

Who was committed to free soil?

Answer 9

A. Lincoln

Question 10

NOT chief factors for the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War?

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the traditional argument between a British or French alliance

Question 11

The U.S. Civil War changed character on 1 January 1863, after Lincoln ..

Answer 11

Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

Question 12

NOT one of the reasons for the victory of the northern states in the U.S. Civil War?

Answer 12

The Union had better generals.

Question 13

The victory of the northern states in the U.S. Civil War meant that

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the federal government would have greater authority in the American republic.

Question 14

New France passed into British control after

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7 years war

Question 15

The War of 1812

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stimulated a new sense of Canadian unity against an external threat.

Question 16

The U.S. invasion of Canada in the War of 1812

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Was repelled

Question 17

Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were joined together as the Dominion of Canada by the..

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by the British North America Act of 1867.

Question 18

The first prime minister of Canada was

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John MacDonald

Question 19

Simón Bolívar succinctly summed up the developing political situation in Latin America when he said
(Hint :fear)

Answer 19

I fear peace more than war

Question 20

Caudillos were

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regional military leaders who provided order in Latin America.

Question 21

Who called for regional autonomy in an attempt to reconcile competing interests in Argentina?

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Juan Manuel de Rosas

Question 22

Benito Juárez was

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the leader of La Reforma in Mexico in the 1850s.

Question 23

Emiliano Zapata was

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Mexican agrarian rebel who fought for the goals of La Reforma.

Question 24

The early stages of industrial development in the United States depended in large part on investment capital from which nation?

Answer 24

Great Britain

Question 25

In terms of the industrial development of the United States in the late nineteenth century, the most important economic development was

Answer 25

The construction of railroad lines that linked all U.S. regions.

Question 26

The National Policy, which was designed to attract migrants, protect nascent industries through tariffs, and build national transportation systems was a policy in

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Canada

Question 27

By the 1860s, Britain’s leading supplier of beef was

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Argentina

Question 28

Walt Whitman was

a poet who described the U.S

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“not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.”

Question 29

After the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War, freed blacks

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quickly lost their political and civil liberties in the southern states.

Question 30

After the U.S. Civil War, the southern states

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underwent Reconstruction.

Question 31

The lines, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal,” come from

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The “declaration of sentiments” of the Seneca Falls Convention.

Question 32

In 1907, the United States government ordered a complete halt to migration from

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Japan

Question 33

Louis Riel was the leader of the

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Metís

Question 34

The Northwest Rebellion was led by

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Louis Riel.