Primary Sources- Time Machine (1845): Manifest Destiny and annexing California and Texas
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Read the passage Time Machine (1845): Manifest Destiny and annexing California and Texas. Then answer the questions below.
Read the passage Time Machine (1845): Manifest Destiny and annexing California and Texas. Then answer the questions below.
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What was O'Sullivan's perspective regarding the annexation of Texas?
What was O'Sullivan's perspective regarding the annexation of Texas?
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According to the source, why would Mexico have trouble keeping control of California? Select two correct answers.
According to the source, why would Mexico have trouble keeping control of California? Select two correct answers.
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Drag each quotation into the correct box to classify its used in the source as either a claim or counter-claim.
Drag each quotation into the correct box to classify its used in the source as either a claim or counter-claim.
- "It is wholly untrue, and unjust to ourselves, the pretense that the annexation was at the expense of justice."
- "Their goal has been to defeat our policy and hamper our power, to limit our greatness and check the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent."
- "California probably will be the next to fall away from its loose connection with Mexico."
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- Counter-Claim