1. The first sizable American migration into Texas occurred amid the following circumstances:
a. Ongoing Native American raids on Mexican villages.
b. A new Mexican nation in need of government revenue.
c. American westward expansion
d. All the Above

2. All the following contributed to the regional tensions which ultimately prompted seven southern states to declare their independence from the United States, EXCEPT:
a. Lincoln’s campaign platform and inaugural address promising to abolish slavery
b. Disputes over tariffs and Lincoln’s campaign platform and inaugural address promise to impose another tariff
c. Expanding federal authority even as the rural South felt it had limited authority and sway in federal elections and national politics.
d. The legal struggle over the status of the enslaved convinced many northern abolitionists that abolition would only come by empowering the enslaved to rise up and liberate themselves