Chapter 12 - Westward Expansion

Question 1

Which purchase completed the territory of the United States by adding a section of Mexican land on the border of New Mexico and Arizona?

Answer 1

The Gadsden Purchase

Question 2

Who started the “Bear Flag Revolution”?

Answer 2

John Charles Fremont

Question 3

Who led the Mormons to settle in Utah?

Answer 3

Brigham Young

Question 4

Who was the American general during the Mexican War?

Answer 4

Zachary Taylor

Question 5

Who discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill?

Answer 5

James Marshall

Question 6

Who founded Mormonism?

Answer 6

Joseph Smith

Question 7

What cession added land that would be the future states of California, Nevada, and Utah to the United States?

Answer 7

The Mexican Cession

Question 8

True or False? The Oregon Trail had been forgotten until it was rediscovered in 1824 by John Astor.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

True or False? The Mexican War served as a training ground for the Civil War.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

True or False? The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo made the Rio Grande the boundary of Texas.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

True or False? The Wilmot Proviso would have banned slavery in any territory from Mexico.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

True or False? The building of Sutter’s Fort was most closely related to the start of the California gold rush.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What were the reasons for people moving to the West during the early 1800s?

Answer 13

1. Desire to spread the gospel with the Indians
2. Desire for new or more farmland
3. Hope of gaining new riches

Question 14

What did the Compromise of 1850 do?

Answer 14

1. Outlaw the slave trade in the District of Columbia
2. Allow popular sovereignty
3. Introduce a stricter Fugitive Slave Law

Question 15

True or False? The Santa Fe Trail was used more by traders than settlers moving to new homes.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or False? Immediately before Texas was annexed by the United States, Texas was a part of the Mexican Cession.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

True or False? The principle of popular sovereignty said that people in the territories should decide whether they wished to allow slavery or not.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

True or False? The Mormons founded Salt Lake City in Utah.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True or False? At the time of the outbreak of the Mexican War, the Sierra Nevadas were what the Americans believed to be the border between Texas and Mexico.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

True or False? Northern Democrats who were willing to compromise on the political problems of the 1850s were called doughfaces.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

True or False? James Polk succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died while in office.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

True or False? Methodist missionaries were the first Americans to seek permanent homes in Oregon.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

True or False? The Americans who moved to Texas while it was under Mexican control quickly adapted to the new culture and blended in with the Spanish population.

Answer 23

False

Question 23

True or False? The Americans who moved to Texas while it was under Mexican control quickly adapted to the new culture and blended in with the Spanish population.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

True or False? Stephen Douglas helped to gain the passage of the Compromise of 1850.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

True or False? Opponents of slavery protested the admittance of Texas into the Union because they feared Texas would be divided into several slave states.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

True or False? The Treaty of San Luis Obispo ended the Mexican War.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

True or False? The president most closely associated with Manifest Destiny was Millard Filmore.

Answer 27

False

Question 28

True or False? The United States and France both claimed Oregon Territory before 1846.

Answer 28

False

Question 29

True or False? The United States gained control of Oregon all the way to the 54 degree 40' line of latitude.

Answer 29

False