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True/False Quiz
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Question 1
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Open Hint for Question 1 in a new window		 The 1842 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty settled the boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick.
   
 
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Question 2
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Open Hint for Question 2 in a new window		 Fear of war with Mexico delayed the United States' recognition of the new independent Republic of Texas until 1845.
   
 
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Question 3
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Open Hint for Question 3 in a new window		 Stephen F. Austin was the leader of the Texas independence movement and the first president of the Republic of Texas.
   
 
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Question 4
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Open Hint for Question 4 in a new window		 Indian attack was the most common danger faced by pioneers heading west in the 1840s.
   
 
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Question 5
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Open Hint for Question 5 in a new window		 Both good farmland and good harbors attracted Americans to the Far West and Pacific Coast.
   
 
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Question 6
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Open Hint for Question 6 in a new window		 James K. Polk's pro-expansionist platform in 1844 won him a landslide presidential victory over the Whig candidate, Henry Clay.
   
 
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Question 7
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Open Hint for Question 7 in a new window		 When Texas was annexed in 1845, Mexico immediately declared war on the United States and moved its armies into South Texas.
   
 
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Question 8
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Open Hint for Question 8 in a new window		 The Mexican War witnessed a continuous series of military victories by United States' forces.
   
 
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Question 9
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Open Hint for Question 9 in a new window		 The territory Mexico ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo included both California and New Mexico.
   
 
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Question 10
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Open Hint for Question 10 in a new window		 One result of the territorial expansion produced by the Mexican War was the renewal of sectional harmony between North and South.
   
 
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Question 11
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Open Hint for Question 11 in a new window		 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.
   
 
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Question 12
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Open Hint for Question 12 in a new window		 Neither major party took a strong stand on the issue of slavery in the territories in the 1848 presidential election.
   
 
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Question 13
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Open Hint for Question 13 in a new window		 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.
   
 
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Question 14
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Open Hint for Question 14 in a new window		 President Zachary Taylor initially put together the legislative proposals that became the Compromise of 1850.
   
 
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