Historical Expansion Flashcard

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What does the image "American Progress" by John Gast represent?

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Manifest Destiny

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Which piece of evidence best supports the answer to the previous question about "American Progress" by John Gast? Options: the angelic figure heading west, the Native Americans in the background, the heavy clouds and mountains in the background, the emerging telegraph technology shown

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the angelic figure heading west

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After gaining its independence from Spain, the Mexican government...

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encouraged American settlers to move to Texas

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Use the image to answer the question. This image is most closely associated with _______.

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Texas Independence

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How did President James K. Polk provoke war with Mexico?

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He ordered U.S. troops to cross the Nueces River.

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Which of the following groups settled in the West to escape religious persecution? the Californios, the Exodusters, the Forty-Niners, the Mormons

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the Mormons

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Use the graph to answer the question. Which conclusion is supported by the graph?

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The population of California quickly increased after the discovery of gold.

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This invention helped make which of the following obsolete?
railroads,
telephones,
newspapers,
the Pony Express

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the Pony Express

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How did the U.S. government help in the construction of the transcontinental railroad?

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The government gave railroad companies a gift of ten square miles of land alongside each mile of track.

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The ideas expressed in the passage contributed most directly to which of the following? [It is] our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. —from John O’Sullivan’s Editorial on Manifest Destiny (1845) Options: The American Civil War, The wars of 1812, The Homestead Act, The Supreme Court decision in Worcester v. Georgia

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The Homestead Act