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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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1.

What was O'Sullivan's perspective regarding the annexation of Texas?

D2.His.6.6-8
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2.

According to the source, why would Mexico have trouble keeping control of California? Select two correct answers.

D2.His.16.6-8
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3.

Drag each quotation into the correct box to classify its used in the source as either a claim or counter-claim.

  • "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."
  • "It is wholly untrue, and unjust to ourselves, the pretense that the annexation was at the expense of justice."
  • "California probably will be the next to fall away from its loose connection with Mexico."
  • Claim
  • Counter-Claim
D3.4.6-8