Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)?
A. $15 million was paid to Mexico.
B. The United States gained California.
C. The United States gained territory including present-day Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada.
D. Texas's border to the Nueces River was officially recognized.
E. All of the above
Answer: D. Texas's border to the Nueces River was officially recognized.
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The 1969 "Stonewall Riot" is associated with the civil rights movement for
A. women. B. Hispanic Americans. C. Native Americans. D. homosexuals. E. African Americans.
Why were native peoples able to keep developing their own cultural history despite expanding imperialism?
a. They fought to protect their traditional culture. b. Imperialists respected native cultures and merged with their culture. c. They were controlled under systems of indirect rule and the empires' reliance on collaborators. d. They were able to carve out small pieces of independent land away from imperialist expansion.
Why didn't William Paterson's New Jersey Plan appeal to most delegates of the Philadelphia Convention?
A) It proposed a unicameral Congress in which the states would be represented equally, giving the states too much power. B) It proposed a two-house national legislature, giving the federal government too much power. C) It only represented the wishes of the smaller states, excluding the larger and more powerful states. D) It was strongly supported by Madison and his colleagues, so most delegates rejected it on that basis alone. E) It denied Congress power to tax or regulate trade, severely hampering its political and economic viability.
Which of the following is NOT an accurate statement concerning the consequences of the U.S.-Mexican War?
A. The United States purchased California and the interior Southwest from Mexico. B. The acquisition of new territories pushed the slavery issue to the forefront of national politics. C. A proposal was introduced in Congress to ban slavery in any new territory. Though it never passed, the idea became central to the antislavery movement in the 1850s. D. The war temporarily unified the country as both parties and all sections supported President Polk and approved the war effort.