Was There Any Validity to the Charge That the Texas

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Essay

Was there any validity to the charge that the Texas annexation and Mexican War were attempts to expand slavery? Why or why not? What were the political implications for the national debates on the abolition and the expansion of slavery in the United States and its territories following the annexation of Texas and after the American acquisition of the enormous area of land stretching westward from Texas to California and northward to Oregon as a result of the Mexican War?

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Definitions:

F-Distribution

Used in analysis of variance (ANOVA), describing the ratio of two variances drawn from normally distributed populations.

Degrees of Freedom

The quantity of variable values available in the concluding computation of a statistic.

Variability

A measure of the dispersion or spread of data points in a dataset, showing how much the data points differ from each other.

Sample Standard Deviations

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of sample data values from the mean.