HIS201- Final Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Version 2025 (Fully Solved)
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HIS201- Final Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Version 2025 (Fully Solved)
War in the East (Union) - Answers
The idea that the United States should control the North American continent from sea to sea, term coined by John L. O'Sullivan - Answers Manifest Destiny
Who opposed and who...
HIS201- Final Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Version 2025 (Fully Solved)
War in the East (Union) - Answers
The idea that the United States should control the North American continent from sea to sea, term
coined by John L. O'Sullivan - Answers Manifest Destiny
Who opposed and who supported Texas becoming a slave state? - Answers Northerners and Whigs
opposed
Southerners and Democrats supported
Dark horse Democratic candidate that won the presidential election on a platform of annexing Texas -
Answers James K. Polk
Voted to annex Texas as the 28th state - Answers Congress
Non-legitimate candidate in 1844 due to having been forced out of the Whig Party that signed a treaty
to annex Texas because he wanted Texas to be his legacy - Answers John Tyler
Candidates of the election of 1844 - Answers James K Polk and Henry Clay
Polk's Four Point Plan - Answers 1. A lower tariff rate
2. Settle the "Oregon Dispute" with Britain and get as much territory as possible
3. Establish an Independent Treasury
4. Acquire California from Mexico
Slogan of the Democrats (Polk), voicing the desire for the entire Oregon Territory (really a bluff) -
Answers FIFTY- FOUR FORTY OR FIGHT
What was the dispute over the America-Mexico border - Answers The U.S. claimed the Rio Grande as
the border and Mexico claimed the Nueces River
Sent by Polk into the disputed territory in Texas, hoping to provoke the Mexicans - Answers General
Zachary Taylor
Why did Polk ask Congress to declare war on Mexico? - Answers The loss of "American blood on
American soil"
Congressman Abraham Lincoln of Illinois demanded to be shown the spot where blood was shed -
Answers "Spot Resolution"
-American settlers in California revolted and declared their independence and proclaimed the Republic
of California
, -General Stephen Kearny took Santa Fe in New Mexico and then took his troops west to link up with
Colonel John C. Fremont
-Fremont and Kearny had secured California and New Mexico - Answers The Bear Flag Revolt
Leading U.S. Generals in Mexico - Answers General Zachary Taylor and General Winfield Scott
Terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Answers a. The Rio Grande would be recognized as the
southern border of Texas
b. Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to the U.S.
c. The US paid Mexico $15 million
d. The US agreed to pay claims that the US citizens had against Mexico
Effects of the War with Mexico - Answers a. Established the border of the US as we now know it
b. Vastly increased the size and population of the US
c. Long-lasting Mexican resentment
d. Major western migration and expansion
Proviso attached by Pennsylvania Congressman David Wilmot saying that slavery should never exist in
any part of the Mexican cession that wasn't passed by Congress - Answers The Wilmot Proviso
Took the Mexican capital of Mexico City, bringing the war to an end - Answers General Winfield Scott
The Three Fronts of the Mexican American War - Answers The Army of the West, The Army of the
Center, and The Army of Occupation
Limit for slavery set by the Missouri Compromise Line - Answers 36*30" N latitude
Candidates of the election of 1848 - Answers Governor Lewis Cass, General Zachary Taylor, and Martin
Van Buren
third party which was opposed to the spread of slavery on economic grounds that ran Martin Van Buren
as a presidential candidate in the election of 1848 - Answers The Free Soil Party
Won the election of 1848 - Answers Zachary Taylor
Applied for statehood as a free state - Answers California
Terms of the Compromise of 1850 - Answers a. Congress would admit California as a free state
b. The people of the territories of New Mexico and Utah would decide for themselves whether or not
slavery be legal (POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY)
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