Source: Charles Sumner, 'Objections to the Mexican-American War," adopted by the Mass. State B: President Spe...
Legislature, 1847.
Note: Sumner was a young
state legislator from Massachusetts who later served 24 years in the US
Senate. According to an early Texas census, there were 103,000 whites and 38,000 slaves in the state
in 1847
Mexico, on achieving her independence of the Spanish Crown ... decreed the abolition of
human slavery within her dominions, embracing the province of Texas
At this period, citizens of the United States had already begun to (move) into Texas The idea was
that this extensive province ought to become a part of the United States
Current emigration soon followed from the United States. Slaveholders crossed the Sabine (river
between Louisiana and Texas) with their slaves, in defiance of the Mexican ordinance of freedom.
Restless spirits, discontented at home...joined them The work of rebellion sped. Our newspapers
excited the lust of territorial robbery in the public mind.
Certainly (Mexico)... might justly charge
our citizens with disgraceful robbery, while, in seeking extension of slavery, (our own citizens
denied) the great truths of American freedom

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According to this document was the United States justified in going to war with Mexico?

pacal the great: the throne was passed on to pacal through a female; as a result, he believed that he must legitimize his claim to the throne to add stability to his reign.

as a result, the daughter of ac kan's brother ruled until her son, pacal, reached an age old enough to assume the throne.

pacal the great became the king of the mayan city of palenque in a different way than most mayan kings.

pacal pointed out that ac kan had succeeded his mother as ruler, thereby establishing a precedent for the rule to pass through a female.  

he tried to justify that the way he gained the throne by connecting his mother with the divine mother and the mythological events that happened during the creation of the world.  

typically, the son of a male mayan ruler inherited the throne, but in 612 ce, king ac kan died and did not leave behind a male heir.

montezuma 1: even so, these wars of conquest failed to provide enough human sacrifices and because of this, he formed a triple alliance with cities in the valley of puebla-tlascala.  

in addition, montezuma realized that his government failed to the aztecs during the famine.

in order to appease him, montezuma increased the number of human sacrifices.

the aztec performed human sacrifices to their god huitzilopotchli because they believed he desired human blood.  

around 1440 ce, montezuma i became the fifth emperor of the aztecs and went on to rule for 28 years.  

soon after he assumed the throne, the aztecs were hit with a series of disasters, namely a plague of locusts, a flood, and a harsh frost  

huayna capac: huayna capac also fought to gain territories north of his empire in what is now ecuador.  

huayna capac significantly extended the inca empire to the south, into what is now argentina and chile.  

in 1493 ce, huayna capac became the eleventh ruler of the inca empire.  

huayna, therefore, wanted to gain his own lands and launched campaigns against tribes to the east and north of the empire.  

the inca empire reached its peak under the rule of huayna capac.

during this time the empire covered a vast territory including parts of present day colombia, peru, argentina, chile, bolivia, and ecuador.

during his reign, huayna heard about bearded men with pale skin that resembled the incan1 god viracocha and took this news as a bad omen.

huayna took this as another bad omen that predicted the destruction of the empire.

3. republican abraham lincoln

4. south carolina

5. charleston, south carolina

6. confederates

7. minie bullet - made defense even safer, it spun faster, traveled further and was five times more accurate than any single-man weapon. able to kill at half a mile, it was the largest contributor to battle wounds

      or the the gatling gun - the most successful of several rapid-fire guns that were born before the war. its efficiency in killing only made war more deadly.

idk which one u learned about. pick one.

8. the south was fighting to maintain its way of life, whereas the north was fighting to maintain a union. so they had will, and the north were fighing on unfamiliar territory

9. union had the large population, people to fight in the war and work in the factories to make war materials, industrial base, the factories to make these war materials. the union also was wealthier than the confederacy and could finance the war.

10. stonewall jackson

11. chancellorsville

12. gettysburg

13. sherman

some of these might be wrong but i tried my best.   : )

basic principles: federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, judicial review, representative democracy, limited government, rule of law, individual rights and responsibilities, consent of the governed, majority rule, popular sovereignty, equal protection.