History Multiple Choice!! Best answer awarded to the most correct?

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Immigrants to early 19th century America tended to settle in the North rather than the South because

1. land was free in the North but expensive in the South.
2. Southern states had passed anti-immigration laws.
3. employment was easier to find in the North than in the South.
4. immigrants did not wish to compete with slave labor.
5. the major international seaports were in the North.

"Manifest Destiny" as a political idea found least acceptance by

1. the War Hawks during the War of 1812.
2. New Englanders during the Mexican War.
3. supporters of General Jackson in his Florida campaign.
4. campaign advisers for James K. Polk in 1844.
5. the backers of the Ostend Manifesto.

Which would not have the approval of an American expansionist during the period 1830-1860?

1. the Slidell mission in Mexico
2. the Ostend Manifesto
3. Jackson's Indian policy
4. the campaign slogan of the Whigs in 1844
5. Van Buren's policy on Texas

John C. Calhoun defended the doctrine of nullification because it

1. was a principle stated in the Declaration of Independence.
2. was a constitutional approach to the problem of a state seeking redress.
3. it had been upheld by a Supreme Court decision.
4. it was an extension of the doctrine of implied powers.
5. it was central to the philosophy of the land-owning class of the South.

Henry Clay played an important part in arranging a compromise settle for the

1. Maine boundary dispute.
2. 1828 tariff bill.
3. absorption of the Texas and the Mexican Cession lands.
4. rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States.
5. Oregon settlement with Britain.

"The infant industries of this country must be protected from foreign competition by a protective tariff, and must be further strengthened by a bold program of internal improvements such as the construction of canals and roads." These words were spoken by

1. William Lloyd Garrison
2. Henry Clay
3. John C. Calhoun
4. Stephen A. Douglas
5. Judah Benjamin

Though he was a self-professed follower of Thomas Jefferson, the development of government under Andrew Jackson represented a trend away from the Jeffersonian ideal in its

1. attitude toward the Bank.
2. feelings about the worth of the common man.
3. an emphasis upon the supremacy of the Federal Government.
4. sympathy for agrarian problems.
5. dislike of aristocratic custom.

The right of workers legally to combine into unions to promote their economic interests was established by the

1. application of English common law to cases involving unions in American courts.
2. decision of Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Hunt in 1842.
3. decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Danbury Hatters case.
4. actions of the Workingmen's Party, organized in Philadelphia in 1825.
5. labor provisions of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act.

Opposition to the Treaty of Guadaloupe-Hidalgo came from Senators who

1. demanded heavy reparations from Mexico.
2. wanted to settle for a clear title to the territory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande.
3. wanted to annex all of Mexico.
4. wanted a guarantee that the territory acquired would be open to slavery.
5. opposed the acquisition of any territory inhabited by Spanish-speaking people.

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Here's a start:

Immigrants - 3
manifest destiny - 5 Cuba was more imperialistic than manifest destiny
anti expansionist -4 Whigs

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