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Sutter's Mill

In 1848, gold was discovered at a California site known as ...

Your answer:
"Forty-niners"
San Jacinto
the Peacock Lunchroom
Sutter's Mill
The Mexican provinces of California and New Mexico were given to the United States under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and became known as ...

Your answer:
Annexation
Sutter's Mill
Mexican Cession
Oregon Trail
In 1846, the Mexican government claimed that the dividing line between Mexico and Texas was ...

Your answer:
San Jacinto
Oregon Trail
Nueces River
Utah
Members of a religious group that finally settled in the territory of Utah after being persecuted in other parts of the country.

Your answer:
"Forty-niners"
Mormons
Mexican Cession
O'Sullivans
In 1846, Mexico's leaders had broken diplomatic relations with the United States over American efforts to buy the Mexican territory of ...

Your answer:
California
Oregon Trail
Utah
Itasca
During the 1840's, most pioneer families reached Oregon over the ...

Your answer:
San Francisco Forty-niners goal line
Oregon Trail
Irving Park Expansion
California Trial
As a result of the _____ of Texas, the Lone Star Republic became a territory of the United States during the early 1840's.

Your answer:
"Forty-niners"
Annexation
Nueces
San Jacinto
In 1836 the Texan army (commanded by General Sam houston) won a great victory over the Mexican army at the Battle of ...

Your answer:
PickerFoot Place
San Jacinto
Panic of 1837
the Alamo
During the 1840's, an American Journalist named ______ was the first American to use the term MANIFEST DESTINY.

Your answer:
PickerFoot Person
John L. O'Sullivan
San Jacinto
Thomas Jefferson
The ____ caused serious economic problems in the United States and led to the closing of many banks and businesses and to widespread unemployment.

Your answer:
Flood of 1967
Panic of 1837
Annexation
Oregon Trail
By 1850, the largest food-producing area in America was the ...

Your answer:
Peacock Lunchroom
North
West
South
During the mid-1830's, the ruler of Mexico was ...

Your answer:
Santa Anna
Santa Clause
Sam Houston
Zachary Taylor
The doctrine of Manifest Destiny stated that Americans ...

Your answer:
should increase trade with Europe.
had a right and a duty to settle new lands.
should replace the Manifold on their Destiny Automobiles.
should work to stop the spread of slavery.
In 1850, many southerners believed that the balance in Congress between the free states and slave states would be upset ...

Your answer:
if the war with Mexico did not end.
if Sponge Bob got off the scale.
by the admission of Texas as a slave state.
by the admission of California as a free state.
Many southerners supported the annexation of Texas because they ...

Your answer:
wanted to collect taxes from the Texans.
wanted to stop the spread of slavery.
felt that Texas would enter the Union as a slave state.
knew it would be the largest state after the snow melted in Alaska.
In 1846, the northern boundary of Oregon was fixed at the ...

Your answer:
forty-ninth parallel.
forty-second parallel.
fifty-fourth parallel.
center court of the Portland Trailblazers.
The first people from the United States to settle in California were ...

Your answer:
rude students who interrupted their classmates.
sailors and sea traders.
miners.
newpaper reporters.
During the early 1840's, Mexico's leaders did not want to lose California to the United States, and as a result, they ...

Your answer:
signed a treaty with Great Britain.
halted the entry of American settlers into California.
signed a treaty with the United States.
stopped the seals from coming into the bay.
In the early 1840's, most Americans believed that the Utah country ...

Your answer:
was little more than a desert.
had a lot of Jazz.
held great deposits of gold and silver.
was a rich farming region.
The long-standing dispute between Mexico and the United States finally led to war in ...

Your answer:
1941
1846
1836
1848

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