Question 20Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) (04.01 MC)
Question refers to the excerpt below.
"We have not sought to extend our territorial possessions by conquest, or our republican institutions over a reluctant people. It was the deliberate homage of each people to
the great principle of our federative union. If we consider the extent of territory involved in the annexation, Its prospective influence on America, the means by which it has
been accomplished, springing purely from the cholice of the people themselves to share the blessings of our union, the history of the worid may be challenged to fumish a
parallel .. We may rejolce that the tranquil and pervading inftuence of the American principle of self-government was suffcient to defeat the purposes of Britlsh and French
interference...From this example European Governments may learn how vain dplomatic arts and intrigues must ever prove upon this continent against that system of self-
government which seems natural to our soll, and which will ever resist forelgn interference.-James Polk, from the State of the Union Address, December 2, 1845
After this State of the Unlon Address, the statement that the annexation of Texas was born of a cholce of the people themselves to share the blessings of our union' was
O countered by devastating conflicts with Hispanics and American Indians
Oembraced and set the tone for further peaceful North American expansion
Oreviled as a spin of political rhetoric to distract from the imperialistic spread of the republic
Oupheld as a model for the idea and implementation of Manifest Destiny
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