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The potential for new markets, cheap farmland, and gold are all connected to ?
a) Economic Motives for passing the Northwest Ordinance
b) Reasons for issuing the Monroe Doctrine
c) Economic Motives for Manifest Destiny
d) Reasons for purchasing the Gadsden Purchase

Which area did the United States acquire in 1846 after negotiations with Great Britian?
a) Texas annexation
b) Gadsden Purchase
c) Mexican Cession
d) Oregon Territory

Name the idea James K Polk advertised about spreading Democracy
a) Indian Removal Act
b) Spoils System
c) Manifest Destiny
d) 54 40 or fight

Which of these was a goal shared by many advocates of Manifest Destiny?
a) Abolishing slavery
b) voting rights
c) Occupying all of North America
d) Removing all debt

Name the territory the United States gained in order to connect the Railroads?
a) Texas Annexation
b) Mexican Cession
c) Gadsden Purchase
d) Oregon Territory

Which reason did the United States give for declaring war against Mexico in 1846?
a) To overturn a corrupt Mexican government
b) To defend U.S. territory from Mexican aggression
c) To end Mexican slave rebellion
d) To respond to attacks on U.S. merchant ships by Mexican Pirates

What did the compromise of 1850 do?
a) It determined the boundary of slave and free states
b) U.S. Mexican War
c) Civil War
d) none of the above

U.S annexation of _____________ led to the U.S. Mexican War?
a) Florida
b) California
c) Texas
d) New Mexico

What state if the United States acquire from Spain in 1819?
a) California
b) Texas
c) California
d) Florida

California and Texas were both part of which European country?
a) Great Britain
b) Spain
c) France
d) Germany

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