Mexican War, Cession and Oregon

One cause for the need for expansion was:

• growing population

• thirst for more land with slavery

• desire to reach the Pacific Ocean

• all of the above

Mexico was angered by the U.S.

• annexing Texas

• buying Oregon

• invading California

• all of the above

The Thornton Affair refers to:

• attack on town called Thornton, Texas

• President Polk and his girlfriend Elizabeth Thornton

• attack on US troops just north of the Rio Grande

• all of the above

The annexation of Texas:

• ocurred the year after the Texas Revolution

• ocurred after Polk was elected President

• was at the request of the Mexican government

• all of the above

The Missouri Compromise left little available slave territory because:

• Arkansas was not slave territory

• Texas did not allow slavery

• Missouri was not a slave state

• Arkansas was filled by Indian reservations

The immediate cause of the US-Mexican war was:

• Manifest Destiny

• annexation of Texas

• Thornton Affair

• US bought California

As a result of the US-Mexican War,

• US took over Mexico temporarily

• US buys Mexican cession

• US expands westward

• all of the above are true

What is the order of events?​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ ​ (d)   ​ (e)  

• Texas Revolution
• US Annexes Texas
• US gets Oregon from Britain
• Mexico attacks US troops
• US-Mexican War

The US did not get all the land it wanted, which results, then, in the:

• 2nd Mexican War

• Gadsden Purchase

• Annexation of Mexico

• all of the above

Charles Sumner said "A war of conquest is bad; but the present war has darker shadows. It is a war for the extension of slavery over a territory which has already been purged by Mexican authority from this stain and curse."

His complaint about the war with Mexico is that:

• it is a war of conquest

• it is a war to expand slavery

• slavery is a stain and curse

• Mexico has too much slavery