APUSH CHAPTER 17 TRUE AND FALSE

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo added Texas to the territory of the United States

FALSE Added Northern territories

The British claim to the disputed Oregon country was considerably strengthened by the thousands of British settlers in the region supported by the Hudson's Bay Company

FALSE Americans it settled it more. Britains were outnumbered. Around hundreds of British people.

After President Harrison's death, Vice President John Tyler carried on the strong Whig policies of party leaders like Clay and Webster

FALSE Democratic policies Minority wing

The Wilmot Proviso prohibiting slavery in territory acquired from Mexico enabled the slavery issue to be temporarily removed from national politics

FALSE Fired it up more, brought it up more

President Polk proved unable to implement his four-point program for his presidency because of strong opposition from anti-imperialist Whigs

FALSE He was able to implement his four-point program

The immediate cause of the Mexican War was an attempt by Mexico to re conquer Texas

FALSE It was a boundary dispute

By the 1840s, American relations with British Canada were largely peaceful

FALSE They were not peaceful

A primary motive driving Americans to annex Texas was fear that the Lone Star Republic would become an ally or protectorate of Britian

TRUE

In the election of 1844, Clay lost to Polk partly because he tried to straddle the Texas annexation issue and thus lost antislavery support

TRUE

Polk's primary objective in fighting the Mexican War was to obtain California for the United States

TRUE

Polk's victory in the election of 1844 was interpreted as a mandate for Manifest Destiny and led directly to the annexation of Texas and a favorable settlement of the Oregon dispute

TRUE

Texas was annexed by a simple majority resolution of both houses of Congress because the two-thirds vote necessary for a treaty of annexation could not be obtained in the Senate

TRUE

The Aroostook War, over the Maine boundary, was settled by a territorial compromise in the Webster-Ashburton Treaty

TRUE

The outcome of the Mexican War became a source of continuing bad feeling between the United States and much of Latin America

TRUE

The overwhelming American military victory over Mexico led some expansionist Americans to call for the United States to take over all of Mexico

TRUE