Apush Chapter 17

During the debate in Congress over President Polk's requested congressional declaration of war against Mexico, the Polk administration was frequently called on by ____ to respond to "spot resolutions", demanding to know where American blood had been shed to provoke the war.

Abraham Lincoln

Arrange in chronological order the U.S.' acquisition of (A) Oregon, (B) Texas, (C) California

B,A,C

Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) Black Bear Revolt, (B) Slidell Mission rejected, (C) declaration of war on Mexico, (D) American troops ordered to the Rio Grande valley

B,D,C,A

Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) annexation of Texas, (B) Webster-Ashburton Treaty, (C) settlement of the Oregon boundary, and (D) Aroostook War

D,B,A,C

In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called

Manifest Destiny

The terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848), ending the Mexican war, included

United States payment of $15 million for the cession of northern Mexico

Texas was annexed to the United States as a result of

a joint resolution enacted by a simple majority in the House and the Senate rather than the two-thirds constitutional supermajority required of all treaties with foreign nations.

Those people most adamantly opposed to President James K. Polk expansionist program in Oregon, Texas, and the Southwest were the

abolitionists

Most Americans who migrated to the Oregon Country were attracted by the

rich soil of the Willamette River Valley

The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared that

slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States

The Wilmot Proviso

symbolized the burning issue of slavery in the territories

In 1846, the United States went to war with Mexico for all of the following reasons except

the impulse to satisfy Congressman Abraham Lincoln and similar political allies in Congress to enact the so-called "spot resolutions" concerning alleged Mexican incursions into American territory