US History Final WGU Academy Exam with 100% Correct Answers 2023

in 1836, Texas did not immediately join the US in part because... - Correct answerPresident Andrew Jackson thought it would add to sectional tensions. Which of the following towns served as a major departure point for migrants traveling West on the overland trails? - Correct answer-Independence, Missouri In the 1820's and 1830's, the government of Mexico... - Correct answer-moved from favoring to opposing American immigration into Texas. As a result of the Gold Rush, by 1850... - Correct answer-California's population had become even more diverse. In 1836, an attack by Mexican forces on the Alamo mission... - Correct answer-saw the death of Davy Crockett The key to victory for the United States in the Mexican War was... - Correct answerWinfield Scott's seizure of Mexico City. During the Mexican War, - Correct answer-American Settlers in California staged a revolt with the help of the US navy. Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States - Correct answer-Agreed to pay millions to Mexico. As President James K. Polk - Correct answer-None of these answers are correct. In 1853, The Gadsden Purchase - Correct answer-Advanced the cause of a southern route for the transcontinental railroad. In the election of 1860, - Correct answer-Abraham Lincoln was elected with less than half the vote of the popular vote. The admission of California into the US was a decisive national issue because - Correct answer-California's entry would upset the nation's numerical balance of free and slave states. In the election of 1852 - Correct answer-The free-soil party gained strength In the 1850's, the "Young America" movement, - Correct answer-Supported the expansion of American Democracy throughout the world. The Free-Soil Ideology Included: - Correct answer-Opposition to the expansion of Slavery James Buchanan - Correct answer-Pressured Congress to admit Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution. The 1857 Lecompton (Kansas) Constitution was - Correct answer-Twice rejected by a majority of Kansas Voters In 1861, the First Battle of Manassas or Bull Run was - Correct answer-a Victory for the Confederates The Most important Union Military Commander was - Correct answer-Abraham Lincoln At the Start of the Civil War, the - Correct answer-North had more advanced industrial and transportation systems The Confiscation Act of 1861 - Correct answer-Declared that slaves used by the Confederate States in the war effort were free. In the Course of the Civil War, - Correct answer-Popular Support for the Union was strong in England. In 1865, Southern Whites defined "Freedom" as - Correct answer-Controlling their future without Northern Interference In 1865 Southern Blacks defined " Freedom" as - Correct answer-All these answers are correct After the Civil War, most poor rural Southerners relied on credit from - Correct answerCountry Stores The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln - Correct answer-Involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration The Panic of 1873 - Correct answer-was the nation's worst economic depression to the time. During the Johnson Administration, the United States acquired - Correct answer-Alaska The Alabama Claims - Correct answer-Involved complaints by the United States against England During Reconstruction the Southern School System - Correct answer-Reached 40 percent of all black children by 1876 The Fourteenth Amendment - Correct answer-Gave Citizenship rights to all people born in the United States