... Polk began making war preparations to annex Texas under any means necessary, including war with Mexico. To ensure that Great Britain would not interfere in the upcoming Mexican War, Polk made a treaty with Britain to divide the Oregon Territory between American and British land. This ... the Revolutionary War. Such newspapers also heartily accepted the conspiracy theory that it was a Spanish mine that destroyed the Maine. Soon enough, propagandist headliners such as "Whole Country Thrills With the War Fever, Yet President Says It Was An Accident" swayed even more Americans into supporting...

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