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formula1 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

Before going to war with Mexico, President Polk had to resolve which other territorial issue?

A) acquiring Oregon from Britain
B) capturing California from Mexico
C) settling disputes with France over the sugar islands of the Caribbean
D) taking the Indian Territory from the Native Americans who had been relocated there.

Question 2

This illustration from Life magazine showing the orbits of the Sputnik satellite characterizes the threat from the Soviet Union to the United States as being __________.

A) easily penetrable
B) purely fantastic
C) inescapable
D) more symbolic than real

Question 3

How did Barbados influence the institution of slavery in England's North American colonies?

A) African slaves were used for agricultural production for the first time.
B) Legal codes used to govern relations with slaves became a model for other colonies.
C) An abolition movement began after the evils of slavery were made apparent.
D) Practices developed that were more lenient than those of the Spanish and Portuguese.

Question 4

What was the main source of conflict between the United States and Mexico that led to war in 1846?

A) differences in language and culture
B) immigration
C) a dispute over defining the border
D) the question of sovereignty over Texas

Question 5

During the Eisenhower administration, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced in 1954 an American foreign policy that called for __________ in response to a Soviet attack.

A) the use of conventional military forces
B) massive nuclear retaliation
C) NATO air strikes
D) an immediate appeal for peace