The Texas uprising against Mexico was characterized by     
 * an alliance between Americans and Tejanos.    
 hostility between Irish and Spanish Catholics.    
 American adventurers and soldiers of fortune.    
 a Mexican alliance with the Comanches against Americans.    
    

By 1848, the United States had gained all of the following territories  except:    
 California    
 Texas    
 the Oregon Territory    
 * Alaska    
    
Americans justified their restless expansion in all of the following ways  except:    
 Americans had a God-given right to bring the benefits of American democracy to  others.   
 The nation's prosperity depended on expansion.    
 It was the Americans' duty to Christianize the Indians.    
 * Canada and Mexico should belong to the United States.    
    

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.    
 effectively got rid of the "Indian problem."    
 was good for the environment and economic development of natural resources.    
 was America's fate, coining the term "manifest destiny" to describe it.    
    
All of the following were reasons why Texans rebelled against the Mexican  government except:    
 The government outlawed slavery.    
 * Mexicans began raising the price of land.    
 The government began to restrict American immigration.    
 The government began to levy customs duties and taxes.    
    
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.    
 opposition of Stephen F. Austin.    
 fear that there were too many outlaws residing in the republic.    
 isolationist policies of the Democratic Party.    
    

The Liberty Party's showing in the 1844 election was the first political  sign of the growing strength of    
 Tejanos.    
 anti-Spanish sentiment.    
 free African Americans.    
 * antislavery opinion.    
    

The Mexican-American War began over     
 * a border dispute.    
 Mexican claims to Louisiana.    
 American claims to California.    
 an unprovoked Mexican attack on San Antonio.    
    
In 1846, Congressman David Wilmot proposed that     
 military appropriations to conduct the Mexican-American War be terminated.    
 * slavery be banned from any territory acquired from Mexico.    
 the United States acquire Cuba from Spain.    
 the United States incorporate all of Mexico into its borders.