THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE FIRST GREAT AWAKENING RELIGIOUS REVIVAL AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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Question
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Native American and Mexican cultures controlled the southwest
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Northerners knew Texas would want to extend slavery into the area
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The Missouri Compromise had failed to solve the slavery issue
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Manifest Destiny called for the extension of American influence to the Pacific Ocean
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Detailed explanation-1: -Northern Whigs feared that war with Mexico would result in the United States gaining new territories in the southwest, which would encourage the expansion of slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Many Northerners believed that Polk, a Southerner, was trying to gain land for the slaveholding South. Other Americans simply thought it was wrong to use war to take land from Mexico. Among those was Second Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why did most northerners tend to oppose the Mexican-American War while most southerners tended to support it? The northers opposed the war because they thought polk provoked the war by sending troops to texas. The southerners supported it because it would give them more power in congress.