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The Mexican-American War made the northern states more sectional in the fact that the northerners did not want to annex more slave states. They saw the war as bullying a weaker infantile country. The Southerners wanted to annex Texas because if they the US didn't, they feared that Texas would be annexed by England which would effectively stop the spread of slavery in the south since England was the biggest abolitionist power at the time. The westerners, such as the Texans just wanted to be annexed with the US so that they would have access to the greater power and protection of the United States.

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