Groups of locally trained soldiers in the American colonies were called _____.
A. Redcoats
B. sons of liberty
C. militias
The answer is C
The Tyler and Polk administrations
Both administrations strongly supported American westward expansion.
John Tyler pressed for the annexation of Texas as a slave state during his administration (1841-45) and at the end of it, he signed a Texas annexation bill into law, which was admitted as a state in the first year of Polk's presidency.
James K. Polk, who ruled from 1845 to 1849, also supported American expansion to the point he led the U.S. into the Mexican-American War (1846-48) in which the U.S. gained what is today California and much of the present-day Southwest.
They experienced a tough brutal battle where they were forced to pick cotton in the fields and be “owned” by slave traders
<u>Answer:</u>
The United States acquired the Philippines as a result of the Spanish-American war.
<u>Explanation:</u>
- The Spanish American war was the result of the dispute among the states in 1898.
- The war was ended by signing the 'treaty of Paris'. This treaty included that the power to rule Philippines along with 'Cuba Puerto Rico', and 'Guam', was shifted to US.
- This treaty also involves that the shifting of sovereignty of Philippines to US needed a compensation of 20 million to Spanish government.
