Mexican-American War Begins as Deliberate Land Grab for Slavery Expansion
President James K. Polk obtains a declaration of war against Mexico after deliberately provoking hostilities by sending American troops into disputed territory between the Nueces River (Mexico’s claimed boundary) and the Rio Grande (Texas’s claimed boundary) in January 1846. When Mexican …
James K. Polk
U.S. Congress
Mexico
Whig Party opposition
Abraham Lincoln
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