MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Question
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Mexico didn’t have an issue with it
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Mexico believed that the United States was taking an illegal part of Mexico
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Mexico believed Texas owed them money
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The annexation of Texas contributed to the coming of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The conflict started, in part, over a disagreement about which river was Mexico’s true northern border: the Nueces or the Rio Grande.
Detailed explanation-2: -It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).
Detailed explanation-3: -The annexation of Texas increased tensions with Mexico, because it had never formally recognized Texan independence. The United States and Mexico also disagreed on the location of the southern boundary of Texas. Polk offered Mexico money to settle the dispute and to purchase California and New Mexico.
Detailed explanation-4: -First, Mexico did not recognize Texas’s independence, so annexation might provoke a war. Second, they opposed the expansion of slavery, which Texas allowed. Third, the vast area of Texas might be divided into smaller slaveholding states, upsetting congressional balance and thereby dissolving the Union.