SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
SOUTHERN SECESSION
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Question
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James Buchanan did not believe in westward expansion.
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James Buchanan wanted to appease the South to save the Union.
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James Buchanan was our fi rst unmarried president.
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James Buchanan was committed to states’ rights.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which statement regarding the presidency of James Buchanan is incorrect? James Buchanan did not believe in westward expansion. On December 20, 1860, a special convention made up of mainly white slave owners unanimously approved an Ordinance of Secession.
Detailed explanation-2: -It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
Detailed explanation-3: -Which statement is true about the Mexican War of 1846-1848? It was opposed by a significant minority in the North. implied that Texas had once been part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase.
Detailed explanation-4: -neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.” This provision that slavery be excluded from the Mexican Cession became known as the Wilmot Proviso.
Detailed explanation-5: -Whether through a congressional joint resolution, negotiations, purchase, or war, President Polk by the end of his term intended for the United States to stretch from coast to coast, firmly in possession of the Oregon Territory and California.