USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

AGE OF THE COMMON MAN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“Finally, in the summer of 1842, after seven years of desperate warfare, an agreement was reached with the few hundred remaining Seminoles, allowing them to live in southwest Florida.”-John and Mary Lou Missall, A Short Hhistory of the Seminole wars, 2006 What led to the conflict referred to in this excerpt?
A
The passage of the Dawes Act
B
The Louisiana Purchase
C
The adoption of Indian removal policies
D
The Battle of Tippercanoe
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The U.S. population grew from more than 5 million in 1800 to just over 23 million by 1850. The United States experienced financial panics in 1819 and in 1837.

Detailed explanation-2: -Which pull factor accounted for much of Chinese immigration to the United States in the mid-1800s? A famine caused by the failure of a staple food crop.

Detailed explanation-3: -Knowing life without laws could prove catastrophic, colonist leaders created the Mayflower Compact to ensure a functioning social structure would prevail.

Detailed explanation-4: -It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).

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