which president fulfilled manifest destiny by adding territory and fought a war with mexico over expansion?

question 1 options:

abraham lincoln

andrew jackson

james k. polk

henry clay

question 2 (1 point)
manifest destiny is a belief that america was only to expand to the mississippi river.

question 2 options:
true
false
question 3 (1 point)
what territory was polk referring to in his campaign slogan when he said, "fifty-four forty or fight! "?

question 3 options:

texas

california

oregon

louisiana

question 4 (1 point)
what territory was annexed in 1844 that mexico viewed as their territory?

question 4 options:

new york

florida

louisiana

texas

question 5 (1 point)
this was created by henry clay where maine and missouri would both enter the union to preserve the balance of free and slave states in senate.

question 5 options:

kansas nebraska act

missouri compromise

compromise of 1850

the great compromise

question 6 (1 point)
this increased after the mexican american war as tension rose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions.

question 6 options:

unity

nonviolent protests

sectionalism

all of the above

question 7 (1 point)
- rio grande new border between us and mexico

-california and new mexico are new territories of us

us paid $15 million to mexican government

all of the above describe provisions of:

question 7 options:

treaty of paris of 1783

treaty of paris of 1763

missouri compromise

treaty of guadalupe-hidalgo

question 8 (1 point)
a swift and decisive war where the us gained texas, california, and new mexico.

question 8 options:

war of 1812

spanish american war

civil war

mexican war

question 9 (1 point)
click all of the following who fought for the confederacy in the civil war?

question 9 options:

william t. sherman

thomas "stonewall" jackson

robert e. lee

ulysses s. grant

question 10 (1 point)
who was president of the confederate states of america?

question 10 options:

robert e. lee

jefferson davis

ulysses s. grant

abraham lincoln

question 11 (1 point)
this 1854 law repealed the missouri compromise and compromise of 1850 by letting settlers have the right to decide for themselves whether their state would be a free or slave state.

question 11 options:

habeas corpus

kansas-nebraska act

emancipation proclamation

scott v. sanford

question 12 (1 point)
which of the following is not true regarding the compromise of 1850?

question 12 options:

california would be admitted as a slave state

slave trade abolished in district of columbia

citizens were required to return runaway slaves to their owners

new mexico's voters could decide to be a free or slave state

question 13 (1 point)
who became president in 1860 leading the southern states to secede?

question 13 options:

johnson

lincoln

jackson

hayes

question 14 (1 point)
popular sovereignty is when voters get to determine whether their state will permit or prohibit slavery.

question 14 options:
true
false
question 15 (1 point)
the ruling of this case was that no enslaved or free black could be a citizen of the united states.

question 15 options:

marbury v. madison

plessy v. ferguson

brown v. board of education

scott v. sanford

question 16 (1 point)
this man was a violent abolitionists who believed slavery would not end without bloodshed. he led a raid on the federal armory at harper's ferry.

question 16 options:

henry clay

john brown

abraham lincoln

robert e. lee

question 17 (1 point)
his main desire was to preserve the union and that can be seen in his gettysburg address.

question 17 options:

jefferson davis

robert e. lee

ulysses s. grant

abraham lincoln

question 18 (1 point)
in this speech, lincoln encouraged americans not to seek revenge on slaveholders, their supports, or the confederate military.

question 18 options:

first inaugural address

second inaugural address

gettysburg address

emancipation proclamation

question 19 (1 point)
saved
the occasion of this speech was the dedication of a military cemetery at a battlefield after 51,000 soldiers were killed there four months earlier.

question 19 options:

first inaugural address

second inaugural address

gettysburg address

emancipation proclamation