Apush American Pageant Ch. 17 Review Questions 5y1f1e

What distinguished William Henry Harrison's presidency? It was the shortest on record What prompted fiercely loyal Whigs to denounce their leader, President John Tyler, as "His Accidency"? His veto of bills to establish a national bank. Tyler was considered by contemporaries as a "Democrat in Whig clothing" for all the following reasons EXCEPT that he: Favored federal funding of internal improvements like roads and canals. In the 1830s, America's relationship with Britain was marked by all of the following EXCEPT: Tension over tariffs. The U.S.-British tension over the Maine-Canada boundary that nearly sparked a war was finally settled in 1842 by: Adjusting the Canadian border so that the United States gained an additional 6,500 square miles. Which of the following did NOT influence the decision to annex Texas, the Lone Star Republic, to the United States in 1845? Whig campaigning in the 1844 election on the promise of annexing Texas Manifest Destiny is best described as: The notion that America was ordained by God to spread its democratic institutions beyond its existing borders. How was the question of the Oregon boundary finally resolved between the United States and Britain? Britain peacefully settled for the proposed line of 49° All of the following fanned the flames that led to the U.S. war with Mexico EXCEPT: Britain's offer to purchase California from Mexico. What was Polk's real goal once the battle with Mexico began? To end the fighting once he had captured California. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the U.S. war with Mexico, included all of the following EXCEPT that it: Required the United States to pay $25 million for its land acquisitions, primarily California. Who were the Californios? The descendants of Spanish and Mexican conquerors who once ruled the region. From a domestic standpoint, which of these was NOT a product of the war with Mexico? A significant loss of life and a weakening of the U.S. Army Symbolically important, the 1846 Wilmot Proviso states that: slavery

should never be established in the territories acquired from Mexico.