MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Question
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Opponents of the war with Mexico included which of the following?
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Congress
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pro-slavery leaders in the South
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residents of Texas and California
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New England abolitionists
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most abolitionists opposed the war and slavery on moral grounds. Other Northerners did not want to compete with Southern slaveholders in any territory acquired from Mexico.
Detailed explanation-3: -Abolitionists saw the war as an attempt by the slave states to extend slavery and enhance their power with the creation of additional slave states out of the soon-to-be-acquired Mexican lands.
Detailed explanation-4: -A young essayist and poet named Henry David Thoreau staged the best known act of protest against the Mexican war.
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