All of the following were reasons why Texans rebelled against the Mexican government EXCEPT

The map of territory added (1845-1853) shows that

The Mexican Cession of 1848 included much of present-day Texas.

As commander-in-chief during the war, James K. Polk defined the role of president by

coordinating both civilian and military goals and needs.

_________ was a free African American pioneer who settled in Washington Territory.

George Bush

The Mexican-American War began over

a border dispute.

The Americans went to war with Mexico because the

United States wanted Mexican territory.

American settlers in this community practiced a frontier of exclusion from the beginnings of settlement:

Austin.

In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed that

slavery be banned from any territory acquired from Mexico.

All of the following were reasons why Texans rebelled against the Mexican government EXCEPT

Mexicans began raising the price of land.

From the 1780s to about 1810, the dominant industry in the Oregon Territory was

the fur trade.

The justification for the western removal of the Indians was

the Indians needed a space where they could live undisturbed by whites.

One of the most important factors in the exploration of the West was the

fur trade.

The Republic of Texas was not immediately annexed by the United States largely because of the

fact that Texas would have to be admitted as a slave state.

While challenged by other historians, popular opinion supports the view of frontier historian, Frederick Jackson Turner, who argued that settling new frontiers

shaped Americans into a uniquely optimistic democratic people.

Louisiana slaveholder General Zachary Taylor, who ran for the Whig Party and won,

privately opposed the expansion of slavery.

Levi Strauss and Jerusha Marshall illustrated that

the real money was in services to the forty-niners.

Fort Ross is indicative of this trade connection:

Russian-Californian.

Austin's Texas colonists most represented what region of the United States?

the South

By 1848, the United States had gained all of the following territories EXCEPT

Alaska.