Which was NOT a "root" of Manifest Destiny?

Europe was taking the land first

Belief that the land was promised to America by God

The American Revolution showed America was special and that democracy would work

Which was NOT an effect of Manifest Destiny?

The United States freed the slaves

Native Americans and Mexicans lost land

The United States became a world power

The United States and Mexico fought over the disputed border region that lay between

the Nueces River and the Rio Grande

the Mississippi River and the Rio Grande

In the Bear Flag Revolt

a small group of American settlers declared California an independent republic

U.S. naval forces captured Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Diego

President Polk named Captain John C. Fremont governor of California

Winfield Scott took the port of Veracruz

U.S. forces won the Mexican War after successive victories at

Veracruz, Cerro Gordo, and Mexico City

San Antonio, Goliad, and San Jacinto

Resaca de la Palma, Veracruz, and Buena Vista

Palo Alto, Cerro Gordo, and Veracruz

While northern abolitionists opposed the Mexican War because of the potential slave states that might develop in the Southwest, some pro-slavery southerners worried that

new territories might ban slavery

the war would be fought mainly on American soil

the war would be fought only in Texas, where slavery was less popular

a U.S. declaration of war would open all of the Southwest to slavery

19. General Taylor first marched his troops to the Rio Grande.....

in the disputed land between the Nueces and Rio Grande River

before Mexican officials ordered the removal of U.S.settlers from California

after Mexican soldiers attacked a group of 63 U.S.soldiers

before Congress declared war on Mexico on May 13, 1846

The treaty that ended the Mexican War was known as

the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

the Declaration of Mexican Independence

Most of the forty-niners were

families from the Midwest and Southwest

The overwhelming majority of gold rush miners

grew wealthy in manufacturing rather than in mining

found wealth in the higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada

died as a result of the state of violence and lawlessness that existed in the mining camps

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