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1
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Nominated former President Martin Van Buren as their candidate in 1848

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Free Soil Party

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Diplomat who refused Polk’s orders to acquire all of Mexico and negotiated the current of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Nicholas Trist

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3
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Territory where slavery was not restricted as part of the Compromise of 1850

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New Mexico

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4
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Political party that aggressively supported westward expansion

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Democratic Party

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The first Whig president

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William Henry Harrison

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6
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Candidate in 1848 associated with “popular sovereignty”

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Lewis Cass

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7
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Elected President of the Independent Republic of Texas

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Sam Houston

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Led the Mormon migration from Illinois to the Great Salt Lake

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Brigham Young

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9
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Led a revolt in Cuba in 1849

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Narciso Lopez

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Men who tried to single handedly capture new territories for the US

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Filibusters

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U.S. commander that captured Mexico City in the Mexican War

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Winfield Scott

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Party that unofficially opposed the War with Mexico, but supported it to not look unpatriotic

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Whig Party

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Missouri businessman who brought 300 Protestant/slaveholding families into North Mexico (Texas)

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Stephen F. Austin

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14
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Said to have received visions from God endorsing polygamy

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Joseph Smith

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Popular leader of U.S. forces in Mexico that vaulted him to Presidency

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Zachary Taylor

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Raised the “bear flag” of an independent California after capturing Sonoma

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John C. Fremont

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Territory that the slogan “fifty-four forty of fight” called for

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Oregon

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Senator that opposed the Compromise of 1850 because it violated “higher law”

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William Seward

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President who was considered a northern man but with southern principles

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Franklin Pierce

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Senator that called for compromise in his “Seventh of March” speech

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Daniel Webster

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21
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James Birney ran for this party and was said to have stolen the election of 1844 from Clay

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Liberty Party

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22
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Declared the enforcement of fugitive slave laws was a federal responsibility

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Prigg vs. Pennsylvania

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23
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President who provoked war with Mexico to acquire California and New Mexico

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James K. Polk

24
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Most respected member of congress during the antebellum period

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Henry Clay

25
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Whig Vice-President who broke with his party and became a Democrat once President

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John Tyler

26
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Author who inspired young men to “go West”

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Horace Greely

27
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The filibusters oaf the 1840s and 1850s

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Attempted to acquire new territories in which to extend slavery

28
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In the Mexican War

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The United States won every battle due to its superior leadership and weapons

29
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The Mexican Commander who granted Texas independence for Mexico was

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Santa Anna

30
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Anglo settlers in Texas declared their independence when

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A conservative Mexican government attempted to consolidate authority over their settlements

31
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The term manifest destiny refers to

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The belief that Providence had destined the American continent to be dominated by the United States

32
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Which of the following is not true about Brigham Young?

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He was the founder of the Church if Latter Day Saints

33
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Which of the following was true of the Texas Revolution?

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Many Mexicans tejanos joined with the Anglo-Amercians to fight for independence

34
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The man most responsible for passing the Compromise of 1850 was

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Stephen Douglas

35
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Which of the following was not part of the Compromise of 1850?

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Repeal of all existing fugitive slave laws

36
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The Treaty if Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Authorized the United States to pay $15 million to Mexico ~ fixed the Texas border at the Rio Grande ~ ended the United States’ war with Mexico ~ Ceded the Northwestern section if Mexico and the U.S.

37
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In 1850, southerners were most upset by

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The admission of California as a free state

38
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In the 1840s, the westward expansion of the United States

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Included the 2000-mile-long Oregon trail to the Pacific Coast

39
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Who of the following did earn an impressive military reputation in the War with Mexico

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Winfield Scott, Jefferson Davis, Zachary Taylor, and Stephen Kearney

40
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Tow Years Before the Mast, which helped to encourage westward expansion, was written by

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Richard Henry Dana

41
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Which of the following was not involved in supporting the Ostend Manifesto

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The U.S. minister to Cuba

42
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Henry Clay’s position on the annexation of Texas in the campaign of 1844 is best described by which of the following statements?

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Texas should be annexed if it could be accomplished without starting a war with Mexico

43
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Relations between the Mormon settlement in Utah and the U.S. government became strained, especially when

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The settlement authorized polygamy

44
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On the issue of slavery in the territories, John C. Calhoun asserted that

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The constitution protected the right of citizens to move from place to place and to take their property with them

45
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In response to the Whig Party nomination of Zachary Taylor in 1848, many “conservative Whigs” fled the party, joined with antislavery Democrats, and formed the

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Free Soil Party

46
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Most Hispanics in the West lived in

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Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico

47
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Stephan Kearney’s campaign to occupy Santa Fe was long and bloody

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False

48
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William Henry Harrison delivered the shortest inaugural address in US history

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False

49
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“Mr. Polk’s War” refers to the war between Great Britain and the USA over Oregon

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False

50
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Most Whigs supported the war with Mexico

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False

51
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Henry Clay remained steadfastly opposed to the annexation of Texas throughout the presidential campaign of 1844

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False

52
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo settled the question of slavery in the new territories acquired by the United States

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False

53
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Southern Democrats where unhappy about the nomination of Franklin Pierce as their party’s presidential candidate in 1852

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False

54
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Democrats dropped the idea of annexing Cuba after the Ostend Manifesto

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False

55
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President William H. Harrison caught pneumonia on his Inauguration Day and died a month later

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True

56
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The Liberty Party supported the Wilmot Proviso

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True

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