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What statement BEST explains why California developed a diverse population?
a) Many English-speaking settlers migrated there from eastern states.
b) State laws banning racial discrimination attracted many African Americans
c) Gold seekers came from all over the world and became permanent residents
d) Many Chinese people migrated there to work on the railroad

President of the United States during the Mexican American War
a) John Tyler
b) William Henry Harrison
c) Andrew Jackson
d) James K. Polk

Led the Mormons into Utah
a) Joseph Smith
b) John Denver
c) Brigham Young
d) Thomas Whitman

Meeting where trappers would meet to exchange furs and other goods
a) Market house
b) Rendezvous
c) Boarding House
d) Commodities market

One argument against annexing Texas to the United States was that the annexation would
a) Begin a war with Mexico
b) Offered little value to the United States
c) Give more power to those states that supported slavery
d) Cost of the annexation

As a result of the treaty ending the war, Mexico ceded 55 percent of its territory, including the present-day states California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming. This is known as the
a) Wilmot Proviso
b) Mexican Purchase
c) Annexation Clause
d) Mexican Cession

President and Dictator of Mexico
a) Simon Bolivar
b) Santa Anna
c) Vicente Fox
d) Samuel Chavev

What country did Mexico win its indepedence from
a) Portugal
b) Brazil
c) Italy
d) Spain

Term for fur trappers of the Northwest
a) 86ers
b) Fur Loggers
c) Mountain Men
d) Pioneers

Land that forms the farthest extent of a nations settled regions
a) Frontier
b) Borders
c) Outback
d) Hinterland

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