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Mexican War

In response to this Van Buren's nomination was blocked by Southern Democrats went to Free-Soil Parties or Republicans and James K. Polk was now in the forefront for Presidency. Now political parties were beginning to reflect the sections of the nation, thus making the Civil War unavoidable. The South rallied behind Polk and in turn Clay seeing the Polk's popularity among the people with his idea on expansion, began to ponder on the thought of annexation. This led to the defection of anti-slavery Whigs from the party that cost Clay the election entirely. Polk's extensive expansion views were among the few things that led up to the Mexican War. In his campaign promises, he vowed to make the territories of Oregon and California into American control at any cost. These views and promises helped Polk in winning the Presidency of 1844. .
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             A congressman from Pennsylvania, David Wilmot, introduced a bill that would exclude slavery from any land acquired from Mexico. It was called the "Wilmot Proviso." This bill would pass in the House but be rejected in the Senate. For over the next four years it was introduced but it always came into the same result. The importance of this provision is that it undermined the stability of the two-party political system. Before the war, leaders voted on political lines but parties were now showing sign of sectional divisions. Northern Democrats favored the Proviso, while Southern Democrats opposed it. The Whigs were divided over the issue. The "Southern" Whigs and the Northern "Cotton" Whigs did not want to antagonize the southern slave interest, while the "Conscience" Whigs stood firmly against the spread of slavery. .
             Many American's opposed the war, naming it "Mr. Polk's War." The Northern abolitionists and the Whig political party believed that slave-owners and Southerner's in Polk's administration had planned the war as a means to acquire more land.


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2. Mexican War

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3. Mexico War

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4. Mexican-American War

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5. America and the Mexican Drug War

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6. Mexican Independence

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7. Causes of the Mexican-American War

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8. The Mexican Drug War

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9. Us-Mexico

The American presence began to grow throughout Mexico and it grew even stronger after the U.S civil war. ... The financial elites began controlling Mexico by purchasing war bonds in the late 1860's. ... During, the Mexican Civil War, Mexicans failed to pay back their debts. ... The strongest evidence of U.S. expansion goals is with the Mexican-American War. ... Congress was concerned that annexation would start a war with Mexico. ...

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10. Causes and Effects of the Mexican War

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