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“What is the territory, Mr. President, which you propose to wrest from Mexico? It is consecrated to the freedom of the slave by her laws. . . . If you acquire it, you will make it a battleground between the two sections of this Union. . . . It is a war not against Mexico, but a war of the North against the South, of the free states against the slave states, which must end in the destruction of the Union itself.”

— Senator Thomas Corwin, Speech in the United States Senate, 1847

The warning in the excerpt most directly foreshadowed which of the following historical developments?

  1. The emergence of intense legislative conflict over whether to allow slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.Cevap
  2. B
    A national crisis centered on Southern states threatening to secede primarily over high protective industrial tariffs.
  3. C
    The federal government exercising direct executive authority to decide the slave status of the new territories under popular sovereignty.
  4. D
    The immediate ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to resolve the status of enslaved people in the newly acquired territories.

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The correct answer is the option stating that the warning foreshadowed the emergence of intense legislative conflict over whether to allow slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.
The warning in the excerpt directly foreshadowed the intense congressional battles over the expansion of slavery into the lands gained from Mexico (the Mexican Cession). Proposing the Wilmot Proviso (which sought to ban slavery in the acquired territory) and negotiating the Compromise of 1850 are primary examples of the legislative conflict that threatened the stability of the Union.

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1
Analyze the historical context and main argument of the source document.
The excerpt shows Senator Thomas Corwin warning in 1847 that acquiring land from Mexico will cause a sectional battleground over slavery between the North and South.
Understanding the source is essential to identifying the correct historical development it foreshadows.
2
Relate the warning to key events in Period 5 (1844-1877).
The acquisition of the Mexican Cession led to the Wilmot Proviso and the Compromise of 1850, which was characterized by intense congressional debate over the expansion of slavery.
Connecting the source's prediction to the actual legislative conflicts of the era identifies the correct outcome.
3
Evaluate the distractors to eliminate incorrect options.
Tariffs were not the primary cause of the late-1840s/1850s crisis; popular sovereignty did not give direct decision power to the federal executive; and the Fourteenth Amendment was a post-Civil War measure.
This confirms that the other options contain historical misconceptions or timeline errors.

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The role of the Mexican Cession in escalating sectional debates over the expansion of slavery.
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