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1. Which event or person was NOT instrumental in creating an Independent Texas?
The Battle of at the Alamo The Texas Revolution
Stephen Austin Sam Houston

2. The most important issue in the election of 1844, and the keynote of the Democratic campaign, was protective tariffs states’ rights
manifest destiny slavery

3. All of the following actions by Mexico helped lead to the Texas revolution except the restriction of American settlement prohibition of slavery
cancellation of unused land grants removal of Mexican army posts

4. As a result of the Texas revolution, Texas became a new state in the United States an independent nation
a United States territory a self-governing Mexican province

5. The immediate cause of the Mexican War was American settlement of Texas a revolution in Mexico
a dispute over the Texas boundary Mexican debts to the United States

6. By 1857, the government had acquired over 174 million acres through treaties with _____. Native Americans Mexico
Spain France

7. As a result of the Mexican War, Mexico ceded land south of the Gila River paid the United States $15 million
ceded land south of the Rio Grande gave up two-fifths of its land

8. During the gold rush, the safest route to California was around Cape Horn through the South Pass
across Panama through the Oregon country

9. Settlers gained passage through Indian lands as a result of the Gadsden Purchase Treaty of Fort Laramie
Mexican Cession Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

10. Salt Lake City was laid out by the Mormons under the leadership of ____________________. Joseph Smith Hiram Smith
Brigham Young none of these

11. President Polk was determined to acquire the territory in the West held by __________________ even at the risk of war. Canada Mexico
England none of these

12. Texans won their independence under their leadership of _____________________. Joseph Smith Sam Houston
John C. Calhoun none of these

13. _____________________ finished the Texas colony begun by his father. Moses Austin Stephen Austin
Sam Houston Ben Milam

14. Which of the following people was NOT present at the Seneca Falls Convention? Harriet Beecher Stowe Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Frederick Douglass

15. The Texans claimed as their southern boundary the ______________________. Rio Grande Nueces River
Sabine River Colorado River

16. One of the first parties of Americans to reach California was the _______________________. Donner Party Bidwell Party
“Forty-Niners” Mountain Men

17. In 1849, large numbers of people flocked to California to prospect for ___________________. gold copper
silver tin

18. The United States acquired the Oregon Territory through diplomatic negotiation with ________. Spain France
Great Britain the Netherlands

19. In 1808 a federal law was passed that prohibited the _________ of African slaves. birth enslavement
trade importation

20. William Lloyd Garrison published an antislavery newspaper called _________. the Abolitionist the Liberator
the Anti-Slavery Gazette Abolition Now!

Part 2
Finding Main Ideas: Read each adaptation and the lettered statements below. Select which statement best describes the main idea. (Each question is worth one point)
21. The Spanish claim to the Oregon country dated back to an agreement between Spain and Portugal in 1494. Spain gave up its claim in 1819 in a treaty that ceded Florida to the United States. Russia based its claims to the area on the explorations of a Dane in the service of Russia and on the fact that it had missions and trading posts in the Pacific Northwest. Great Britain’s claim to the Oregon country centered on voyages by two English explorers and on a fur trade with the Indians. The United States also claimed the area, citing the discovery of the Columbia River by a Boston sea captain and a fur trade that developed in the early 1800s. Spain held the earliest claim to the Oregon country. Claims by the United States and European countries were based on the fur trade.
The United States joined several European nations in making claims to the Oregon country.

22. At the center of each Spanish mission in the West was the church, often a beautiful structure of stone or adobe. Surrounding the church were living quarters for the priests and workshops in which Indians learned weaving, silver working, blacksmithing, and other crafts. Around the mission buildings were farming areas where the priests and Indians grew grain, grapes, and other crops and at times raised cattle. Indians who had won the confidence of the priests sometimes had farms of their own near the missions. A mission was almost like a small village that supplied many of its own needs. Spanish missions contained beautiful churches and farms.
Spanish missions