MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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increase national debt
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expand slavery
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build seaports
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Although some northerners found the institution of slavery morally reprehensible, most did not believe in complete racial equality either. Slavery became even more divisive when it threatened to expand westward because non-slaveholding white settlers did not want to compete with slaveholders in the new territories.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most northerners did not doubt that black people were inferior to whites, but they did doubt the benevolence of slavery. The voices of Northern abolitionists, such as Boston editor and publisher William Lloyd Garrison, became increasingly violent.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did some northerners oppose the war? Some northerners opposed the war because they opposed using force to keep the South in the Union. The North did not like the draft law either.
Detailed explanation-4: -Northerners imagined the Civil War as a war of deliverance, waged to deliver the South from the clutches of a conspiracy and to deliver to it the blessings of free society and of modern civilization. Northerners did not expect white Southerners en masse to rise up and overthrow secession.