Northern lawmakers were hesitant to go to war with Mexico because in the North people began to question the system as they increasingly viewed it as immoral and believed that it was wrong for person to enslave another. By starting a war with Mexico, they believe that the new territories would create more slave states and perpetuate the system further. Aside from that, President James Polk also wanted to acquire the territories of California, New Mexico and Oregon. Eventually war broke out when American troops to the Rio Grande and Nueces River regard as disputed territories.
Answer:
B. the zapotec were located in the southern part of modern Mexico
Explanation:
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Answer:
a. Obtain: to gain or acquire
b. Ziggurat: a large temple built by the Sumerians.
c. Cultural Hearth: a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward.
d. Qanat: an underground canal first build by the ancient Persians.
e. Embargo: a ban on trade
f. Cuneiform: wedge-shaped symbols that were pressed into clay tablets.
g. Natural boundary: a boundary created by a physical feature, such as a mountain, river, or strait.
h. Participate: to take part in
