The outcome of the mexican war highlighted and intensified what growing tension in the united states that continued to be unresolved?

the correct answer is sectionalism.

the mexican-american war resulted in the united states gaining a significant amount of territory. this includes modern day california, utah, new mexico, arizona, etc.

the only problem with gaining this land was deciding whether or not slavery was going to exist in these new territories. this is outcome of the mexican-american war resulted in growing tension in the us. many northerners did not want slavery in the new territories while many of the southerners did want slavery to be legal. this unresolved issue of slavery and its extension in the us would spark the civil war.

i dont know sorry, but ik that you need to pay attention in class

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion