1. Manifest Destiny Was An Aggresive Imperialistic Ideology.
Most of these settlers were slave-holding plantation owners from the southern United States. ... Additionally, they were committed to annexing New Mexico and California to the United States. ... Mexico capitulated and ceded California and New Mexico to America in the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. ... They still wanted California and New Mexico, and virtually instigated war in order to acquire those territories as well. ...
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