MINNESOTA AND MAINE
Webster Ashburton Treaty
with Great Britain, 1842
TERRITORY
Part with
ES
ORIGINAL TERRITORY
1776
EAST FLORIDA PURCHASE
Adams-Onis Treaty
with Spain, 1810
eled as the
Question
below.
"I have made known my decision upon the Mexican Treaty.... I would submit
it [to] the Senate for ratification ...
"The treaty conformed on the main questions of limits and boundary to
the instructions given..
demand more territory..
... though, if the treaty was now to be made, I should
one branch of Congress [the House] is opposed to my administration...
"I look, too, to the consequences of its rejection. A [Whig] majority of
ability is that Congress would not grant either men or money to prosecute the
And if I were now to reject a treaty made upon my own terms... the prob-
. I might at last be compelled to withdraw them [the army], and thus lose
the two provinces of New Mexico and Upper California, which were ceded to
war....
the United States by this treaty."
..
-President James K. Polk, Diary, 21st February, 1848
7. The major opposition to the Mexican War was based on the belief that
(A) Thoreau's ideas about non-violence were correct
(B) it would expand slavery
(C) the nation could not pay for a war
(D) the British would intervene
8. President Polk was motivated to reject the treaty with Mexico because
of which of the following?
(A) Many Southerners wanted the United States to get larger gains in
territory
(B) Many Whigs opposed the treaty and were willing to continue
the war
(C) The United States was in a dispute with Great Britain over the
Canadian border
(D) The treaty called for the United States to give up the territories
known as Upper California and New Mexico