SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
SOUTHERN SECESSION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Mexican-American War reopened the slavery-extension issue, which divided the North and South and which had been largely dormant since the Missouri Compromise.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the United States, the group of settlers known as the Donner Party resorted to cannibalism while snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains, for the winter of 1846–1847.
Detailed explanation-3: -John C. Calhoun was against taking more than the northernmost territories of Mexico because that would mean incorporating “colored races” into the Union. The dispute over Oregon caused the outbreak of the Mexican-American War. Mexico’s winning independence from Spain slowed American expansion westward.
Detailed explanation-4: -The immediate cause of the Mexican-American War was a disputed boundary between the United States and Texas on the Nueces Strip.