Expansion and Compromise

Question 1

Which of the following events immediately followed the Battle of San Jacinto?

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Santa Anna signed a treaty with Texas.

Question 2

What was required before Texas could be annexed by the United States?

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Both countries had to approve annexation.

Question 3

What would have happened if Missouri had joined the Union as a slave state?

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The balance of power in Congress would have shifted.

Question 4

In the 1830s, who became the dictator of Mexico?

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Santa Anna

Question 5

How did the concept of Manifest Destiny create the need for the Missouri Compromise?

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As the US expanded, there needed to be a balance of power between the North and the South, which led to the Missouri Compromise.

Question 6

In the early 1800s, the empresario system was responsible for

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more American colonists settling in Texas.

Question 7

When Texas joined the United States in 1845, Texas was

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an independent nation.

Question 8

In the early 1800s, how was the belief in Manifest Destiny most likely to affect the admission of new states into the Union?

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The belief in Manifest Destiny meant that the balance between free and slave states could shift as the United States expanded to the Pacific coast.

Question 9

One consequence of the US Congress voting to annex Texas was that

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the United States gained debt and border problems that Texas already had.

Question 10

The provisions of the Missouri Compromise stated in part that

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Missouri would be admitted into the Union as a slave state.

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