Respuesta :
The correct answer is:
Americans disagreed over whether slavery should be allowed in the land gained during the war.
Answer: d Americans disagreed over whether slavery should be allowed in the land gained during the war.
Explanation:
In the war with Mexico (1846 - 1848), the United States acquired over 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory.
The war renewed the slavery-extension argument because the abolitionists feared the slave states intentions were to extend slavery in the new territory to improve their strength.
Although the subject was finally resolved by the Compromise of 1850, the growing sectional enmity had already come close to the civil war.