UNHS-Self check 10

Choose the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. By 1850, the population of the United States had grown to

• ten million

• fifteen million

• eighteen million

• twenty-three million

Manifest Destiny was the

• hope that prospectors would find gold in the Sierra Nevada.

• belief that the United States would expand to the Pacific.

• belief that the United States should not expand into Mexico

• belief that the Mormons would serve as a city upon a hill

What was the eastern starting point of the Oregon Trail?

• Santa Fe, New Mexico

• Nauvoo, Illinois

• Ft. Kearny, Nebraska

• Independence, Missouri

The Mormons settled in

• Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Ft. Laramie, Wyoming

• Independence, Missouri.

• Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Who led the Mormons in their migration to the West?

• Jim Beckwourth

  B.

• John C. Frémont

• Kit Carson

• Brigham Young

Which statement about President James K. Polk is TRUE?

• He was willing to go to war to gain land in the Northwest.

• He was willing to go to war to gain land in the Southwest.

• He began the process of admitting Texas to the United States.

• He won the 1844 election with support from only the southern states.

He won the 1844 election with support from only the southern states.

• the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo

• the Treaty of San Jacinto

• the Gadsden Purchase

• the Treaties of Velasco

The territory in the border dispute between the United States and Mexico lay between

• the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada.

• the Rio Grande River and the Nueces River.

• Santa Fe, New Mexico and Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Independence, Missouri and Ft. Kearny, Nebraska.

What were ranchos?

• Mexicans who became United States citizens after the Mexican-American War

• merchants who sold goods and supplies to prospectors during the gold rush

• towns that pioneers founded along the Oregon Trail and Mormon Trail

• large estates formed from mission lands and granted to Mexican settlers

In the Bear Flag Revolt, the rebels declared independence from

• the United States.

• Texas.

• Mexico.

• Great Britain.