1 .		The 1842 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty settled the boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick. [Hint]  True  False
2 .		Fear of war with Mexico delayed the United States' recognition of the new independent Republic of Texas until 1845. [Hint]  True  False
3 .		Stephen F. Austin was the leader of the Texas independence movement and the first president of the Republic of Texas.   True  False
4 .		Indian attack was the most common danger faced by pioneers heading west in the 1840s. [Hint]  True  False
5 .		Both good farmland and good harbors attracted Americans to the Far West and Pacific Coast. [Hint]  True  False
6 .		James K. Polk's proexpansionist platform in 1844 won him a landslide presidential victory over the Whig candidate, Henry Clay. [Hint]  True  False
7 .		Texas was annexed to the Union by a joint resolution of Congress.   True  False
8 .		When Texas was annexed in 1845, Mexico immediately declared war on the United States and moved its armies into South Texas. [Hint]  True  False
9 .		The Mexican War witnessed a continuous series of military victories by United States' forces. [Hint]  True  False
10 .		The territory Mexico ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo included both California and New Mexico. [Hint]  True  False
11 .		One result of the territorial expansion produced by the Mexican War was the renewal of sectional harmony between North and South. [Hint]  True  False
12 .		When the Wilmot Proviso was debated in Congress, Senator John C. Calhoun proposed extending the 36° 30' line of the Missouri Compromise through the cession territory to the Pacific Coast. [Hint]  True  False
13 .		Neither major party took a strong stand on the issue of slavery in the territories in the 1848 presidential election. [Hint]  True  False
14 .		California's admission to the Union as a free state in 1850 reestablished the balance in the number of free and slave states in the Union. [Hint]  True  False
15 .		President Zachary Taylor initially put together the legislative proposals that became the Compromise of 1850. [Hint]  True  False