MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Detailed explanation-1: -Clay said that he had no personal objections to Texas, but that annexation smacked of imperialism and carried too many risks. It would lead to war with Mexico, dangerous sectional discord, and too much debt. Clay said that the United States should concentrate on improving the territory we already had.
Detailed explanation-2: -Annexation of Texas Congress passed the joint resolution a few days before Polk’s inauguration in March 1845. This allowed Texas to bypass the territorial stage and come into the union as the fifteenth slave state in December 1845.
Detailed explanation-3: -Polk supported immediate annexation of Texas because he argued it was originally part of the Louisiana Purchase but was unjustly lost with the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819. Polk ran on an expansionist platform where his main promises consisted of the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Territory.
Detailed explanation-4: -On November 5, 1844, Democratic candidate James K. Polk defeated Whig Party candidate Henry Clay to become the eleventh president of the United States.