President James Knox Polk.
united states settlers begin moving to Texas and continue settling the South
It gave us the Mexican Cession.
It is called the Mexican American war for a reason. The US fought Mexico.
James Knox Polk was the US president during the Mexican War.
Southern plantation owners had the best reason to support the Mexican War. They believed they could enlarge the US by a victory and have more territory in which to attempt to expand slavery.
The US-Mexican war.
The Mexican, or its other name, the Mexican-US War, was in 1846. There is no direct connection to the US Civil War, other then that many of the generals of the Civil War, fought together and came to know each other.
JFK fought in the Mexican American war
After Mexico lost the Mexican American War to the USA, the Mexican government ceded land from the Texas border to the Pacific Ocean to the USA in exchange for peace.
The US won the Mexican American War against Mexico.
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