Question 1
The slogan Manifest Destiny referred to the conviction of Americans in the 1840s that the United States had a(n)
A) God-given right to exist as a nation.
B) opportunity to replace greed with benevolence.
C) obligation to spread across the continent.
D) mission to free slaves.
Question 2
In his popular Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (1845), Lansford Hastings
A) maintained that California belonged rightfully to the United States rather than Mexico.
B) applauded the concept of joint occupation of Oregon with the British.
C) defended the rights of Native Americans to certain lands of the Northwest.
D) provided both practical information as well as encouragement for frontier settlers.
Question 3
Eastern Indian tribes from the South and Old Northwest, whom the American government forcibly relocated in the West,
A) received permanent protection of their new lands.
B) served ironically as agents of white civilization.
C) strengthened Native American resistance to further white expansion.
D) converted the Plains Indians to agricultural enterprises.
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