Use the image to answer the question.
What was the biggest threat of traveling west in the manner shown in the illustration?
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• Disease spread quickly because the travelers lived so close together.
• Individual wagons would oftentimes be separated from the group.
• Settlers were unable to purchase or trade for goods along the way.
• Groups faced the possibility of ambush by hostile natives.
The biggest threat of traveling west in the manner shown in the illustration was the possibility of ambush by hostile natives.
Use the map to answer the question.
What main reason Congress initially refused to annex Texas is supported by the information on this map? Select two that apply.
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• If the United States annexed Texas, it would almost certainly mean war with Mexico.
If the United States annexed Texas, it would enter as a free state and anger Southerners.
• If the United States annexed Texas, slave states would almost certainly outnumber free states.
• If the United States annexed Texas, it would jeopardize the country's other claims in California.
The two main reasons Congress initially refused to annex Texas that are supported by the information on the map are:
- If the United States annexed Texas, it would almost certainly mean war with Mexico.
- If the United States annexed Texas, it would jeopardize the country's other claims in California.