Geography, Environment, and Peopling 1801–1848
Practice Questions
AP U.S. History › Geography, Environment, and Peopling 1801–1848
That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States ... shall, from and after the first January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be entitled to enter one quarter section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands
-United States Senate, Homestead Act, 1862
The passage of the Homestead Act is consistent with a political philosophy associated with what other historical event?
Which of the following best describes the impact on European population made by the exchange network depicted in the diagram?
"Have not results in Mexico taught the invincibility of American arms?...The North Americans will spread out far beyond their present bounds. They will encroach again and again upon their neighbors. New territories will be planted, declare their independence, and be annexed. We have New Mexico and California! We will have Old Mexico and Cuba! The isthmus cannot arrest--nor even the Saint Lawrence!! Time has all of this in her womb. A hundred states will grow up where now exists but thirty."
- DeBow's Commercial Review, 1848
Chief among the benefits of expansionism in the mid-nineteenth century was ___________________.
Manifest Destiny is the belief that __________.
With which accomplishment is the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Northwest between 1804 and 1806 not credited?