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Essay Archive - Thesis: Show How Mexico Lost An Enormous Territory to the U.S.
in 1848.
Thesis: Show How Mexico Lost An Enormous Territory to the U.S. in 1848.
Henry Polk was President of the U.S.A. from 1845, and was an
imperialist. He wanted his country to expand by seizing Mexico's land. His
goal was to try to make the States stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Polk first offered 30,000,000 dollars to Mexico for California and New
Mexico, but they refused. As relation between the two continued to worsen,
it was in fact true that The U.S. had no real legal claim to those
territories, and there were only seven hundred Americans compared to the
75,000 Spa....
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