Quiz for American Voices: The Mexican War: Expansion and Slavery

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Correct. The answer is d. O’Sullivan suggested that the federal government’s decision to annex Texas was completely acceptable, not only because it was the nation’s “manifest destiny to overspread the continent,” but because Texas was an independent nation that Mexico no longer controlled.
Incorrect. The answer is d. O’Sullivan suggested that the federal government’s decision to annex Texas was completely acceptable, not only because it was the nation’s “manifest destiny” to overspread the continent,” but because Texas was an independent nation that Mexico no longer controlled.

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Correct. The answer is a. O’Sullivan countered the charge that the annexation of Texas was a pro-slavery measure by arguing that “the greater value in Texas of the slave labor now employed in [the most northerly of the southern] States, must soon produce the effect of draining off that labor southwardly.”
Incorrect. The answer is a. O’Sullivan countered the charge that the annexation of Texas was a pro-slavery measure by arguing that “the greater value in Texas of the slave labor now employed in [the most northerly of the southern] States, must soon produce the effect of draining off that labor southwardly.”

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Correct. The answer is d. Buchanan’s letter to Slidell instructed him to pursue Mexico’s cession of its territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande to Texas and to seek American possession of New Mexico and California. He explained that the United States was particularly intent upon “the possession of the Bay and harbor of San Francisco” and that “money would be no object.”
Incorrect. The answer is d. Buchanan’s letter to Slidell instructed him to pursue Mexico’s cession of its territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande to Texas and to seek American possession of New Mexico and California. He explained that the United States was particularly intent upon “the possession of the Bay and harbor of San Francisco” and that “money would be no object.”

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Correct. The answer is a. In his editorial, Whitman articulated his objections to the expansion of slavery because of its negative effect on free labor.
Incorrect. The answer is a. In his editorial, Whitman articulated his objections to the expansion of slavery because of its negative effect on free labor.

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Correct. The answer is c. Sumner argued that since Texas had only been able to maintain jurisdiction over the territory that was defined by the Nueces River, it was an unjust act of aggression for the United States to take possession of the land between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande.
Incorrect. The answer is c. Sumner argued that since Texas had only been able to maintain jurisdiction over the territory that was defined by the Nueces River, it was an unjust act of aggression for the United States to take possession of the land between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande.