Question

Which of the following groups were most likely to support the Mexican-American War? Southerners who believed in Manifest Destiny
Southerners who wanted to add new slave states
Northerners who were members of the Whig Party
Northerners who lived far away from the conflict

Answer 1

c) Northerners who were members of the Whig Party

Explanation:

• Before the Mexican-American war had been won and the territory ceded, Congress had already debated how the possible new territories gained by Mexico could be organized as reparations. The Wilmot Proviso, suggested by David Pennsylvania 's delegate in 1846, two years before the war began, was one of the most important proposals
• 8th August, 1846, President James Polk introduced a bill of appropriation to grant $2 million to purchase any possible territories from Mexico for war reparations.
• However, for any territory that is acquired by war with Mexico it is declared to be free and so reserved exclusively for whites. No slavery or enforced servitude shall ever occur in any part of that territory or any jurisdiction of the Republic of Mexico. Wilmot's motives was perfectly aligned with the motives of the free-soil movement
• Many Northern Democrats were angry over Northern interest subjugation to southern interests and decided to attack the slave power. In fact, for political and economic purposes, they wanted the newly conquered territory from Mexico solely for whites.
• Wilmot himself was a Northern Democrat, and most Democrats endorsed and supported slavery, even though they did not own slaves themselves. Many Northern Whigs believed in what was perceived as a Slave control plot, which was a conspiracy theory in which slave owners, although a small party, dominated the political structure of the nation through a alliance of "eyed democrats," the northern democrats who endorsed and defended slavery.
• Southern Whigs joined in 1845 a select party of Congressional Democrats to pass a joint resolution to annex Texas and then Texas became a territory. Polk began planning for a possible conflict with Mexico after the invasion of Texas,
• But later after the Wilmot Provision was passed, instead of expansion without the extension of slavery, southerners avoided territorial expansion together. In conjunction with Wilmot's Proviso, this southern opposition emphasizes that Americans link territorial extension with preventing or expanding slavery.
• Nevertheless, there remained a clear split between the two Parties as most Democrats joined Polk in their efforts to acquire vast parts of Mexico, but most Whigs opposed territorial growth.
• While the Wilmot Proviso failed in the Senate, it prevailed in the House of Representatives because of a alliance between the Northern Democrats and the Northern Whigs.

Answer 2

Answer:

northerners who were members of the whig party

Explanation:

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