American History Homework Five Answers - Student Two

Steve M. is progressing.

1. B - He would not have welcomed immigrants if he was a know-nothing.

2.They wanted a national bank and they did not want to annex Texas. Basically everything the Democrats were against, the Whigs wanted.

3. Before the Mexican War, there was a lot of territory Mexico owned where American settlers lived. These settlers broke off and started their own country: the Republic of Texas. Why Mexico didn't just re-conquer that nation doesn't make sense to me. Instead, they waited until the Republic of Texas was a state, this way they would have to fight the entire United States, rather than a smaller, newer country. Also, they threatened to declare war as soon as Texas was ratified in the U.S., but then didn't; Polk had to do it for them, and use some dishonesty too. It seems that Mexico had as hard a time making up it's mind as the United States did.

The war ended as the U.S. Marines marched through "the Halls of Montezuma," and the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty gave America over half of what was then Mexico.

4. James K Polk acquired much more land for the United States. He worked hard and had the greatest impact of anyone between 1840 and 1860.

5. After the idea of Popular Sovereignty replaced the mandates of the Missouri Compromise, each state had to decide for itself whether or not slavery was right. Bleeding Kansas referred to the conflict that erupted over slave's rights in Kansas.

6. Columbia, the lady representing America, is talking about the Kansas Nebraska Act. Stephen Douglas strongly supported this act because it introduced the concept of Popular Sovereignty. The cartoonist is a republican

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