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.    
    

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.    
    

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.