... and conquered Mexico, and gained all the land North of the Rio Grande as a result. The problem that arises when studying the war is the cloud of uncertainty that surrounds it. It would be very easy to believe that the US, like it has done in so many other countries, just wanted the land and it took it, no questions asked. So why is there controversy ... on a platform of expansionism and as Conner and Faulk say, "The nation voted for "Polk and Dallas-Texas and Oregon"" . It was Polk who secured the annexation of Texas and the slow drift to war. As far as some Mexican as well as American...

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By the Treaty of Paris of Sept. 3, 1783, Great Britain formally acknowledged the independence of the United States, and the warring European powers, Britain against France and Spain, with the Dutch as armed neutrals, effected a large-scale peace settlement. The Anglo-American settlement fixed the boundaries of the United States. In the Northeast the line extended from the source of the St. Croix River due north to the highlands separating the rivers flowing to the Atlantic from those draining into the St. Lawrence ... opposed the declaration of war while Southerners supported it. Mexico decla...

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