Question

After Texas won its independence from Mexico, why didn’t Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren annex Texas?

Texas did not request annexation – the first president of Texas wanted it to remain an independent empire.

Both men were afraid of a war with Mexico, believing that the United States was not yet strong enough to defeat a people who had just won their independence from Spain.

They feared that adding Texas as a slave state would split the Democratic Party.

Elites in Texas wanted too much in “investment” money (bribes) to sell Texas.

    

True or False: The vast majority of people in the North accepted the Fugitive Slave Act as part of the cost of keeping the union intact and cooperated with the law by returning some 140,000 run-away slaves to their Southern masters between 1850 and 1858.

True

False

    

What was included in the Compromise of 1850?

Southerners received the Fugitive Slave Act and Northerners received California as a free state.

New Mexico received a larger area of land and the slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C.

New territories were established in the west on the basis of popular sovereignty.

All of the Above

    

True or False: President James K. Polk maneuvered Mexico to attack U.S. forces by provocatively sending them to the Rio Grande River, a disputed boundary area, among other actions.

True

False

Answer 1

As we know that the main reason for this was slavery. The US did not want to annex Texas because doing so would have upset the balance between slave states and free states that had been accomplished with the Missouri Compromise of 1820. When Texas became independent, it wanted to join up with the United States.

1).The correct option is (c).

They feared that adding Texas as a slave state would split the Democratic Party.

2). The correct option is (False).

The Act was one of the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy". It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate.

3). The correct option is (d).

All of the above.

The compromise act;-In addition to admitting California as a free state, the Compromise of 1850 included the following four pieces of legislation: the Texas and New Mexico Act, under which New Mexico became a territory without restrictions on slavery (that is, the matter was to be settled by popular sovereignty) and the boundary between texas and mexico.

4). The correct option is (true).

In late April 1846, Mexican troops crossed the Rio Grande and killed eleven U.S. soldiers. In response, Polk requested a declaration of war from Congress, arguing that Mexicans had "shed the blood of our fellow-citizens on our own soil." By May 13, 1846, both nations officially were at war.

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