Chapter 17 Focus Questions:
Essay question: Describe the effect of territorial expansion and westward movement on national unity during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Objective Questions:
1)The earliest known use of the term Manifest Destiny was by what person?
2)What year was the phrase coined?
3)Why did John Tyler become a Whig?
4)Why did the Whigs nominate John Tyler for the vice presidency in 1840?
5)How did the Whig party react after John Tyler vetoed the bill to create a new Bank of the US?
6)Who was the only member of Tyler’s cabinet to delay his resignation and why did he temporarily remain in his office?
7)During an 1837 Canadian rebellion against Britain, what did the British do to American?
8)What happened to US-British relations during the Canadian insurrection in 1837?
9)How did the Panic of 1837 affect US-British relations?
10)What was the Aroostook War and how was it resolved?
11)Why did Britain seek to have close relations with the Republic of Texas? (4)
12)Why were some people in Britain hope for a British alliance with Texas regarding slavery?
13)What issue had prevented the US from annexing Texas prior to the British attempts to draw Texas into an alliance?
14)How was Texas ultimately added to the union?
15)What group helped to strengthen America’s claim to the Oregon country by bringing American settlers to the region?
16)What attracted American settlers to the Willamette Valley of Oregon?
17)What issue won the Democratic party’s 1844 presidential nomination for James K. Polk?
18)What area of Oregon was in dispute between the US/Britain?
19)What does Manifest Destiny mean?
20)How did the Whig candidate, Henry Clay, harm his chances to win the election of 1844 on the issue of Texas?
21)Why was the election of 1844 notable?
22)What political group was most supportive of gaining control of all the Oregon Country?
23)What became the northern boundary of the U.S to the Pacific Ocean?
24)Why did the British government decide to compromise on the Oregon Country border?
25)How did Americans respond to the Oregon settlement?
26)When northwesterners questioned why all of Texas was annexed but not all of Oregon, what was the reply?
27)How did President Polk first propose to acquire California, NM, and Utah, and how did Mexico respond?
28)What were the reasons that the US went to war with Mexico in 1846? (4)
29)When President Polk claimed that American blood had been shed on American soil – where was he talking about?
30)Define “spot resolutions” and who introduced them?
31)Which nation set a goal to free slaves during the Mexican-American War and why?
32)When the war began with Mexico, President Polk hoped to fight a limited war, ending with the conquest of what area?
33)What were the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (the treaty that ended the Mexican War)?
34)What people most opposed President Polk’s expansionist program?
35)Why did Polk’s diplomats only take ½ of Mexico instead of all of it and why did they agree to pay Mexico for its land?
36)What were the legacies of the US was with Mexico? (4)
37)What was the Wilmot Proviso, and why did it fail to be enacted?
38)How did the debate over the Wilmot Proviso prove that expansion wouldn’t be a compromise to bring N & S together?
39)What was the largest single addition to American territory?
40)Who were the first Old World Europeans to come to California?
41)Tell all about the missions in California. (4)
42)How did the Spanish Franciscan missionaries treat the native inhabitants of California?
43)Who gained control of California when the Mexican government secularized authority in California?
44)When did the Californio’s political ascendancy end?