MX-Am War (jan 1, 1846 – jan 1, 1848)

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Mx fear TX annexation
- Polk sends troops under Zachary Taylor to TX border
- Polk says will seize CA if MX declare war w Am
- Slidell sent to prevent a war and proposes to buy CA and establish Rio Grande as border + forget MX debt to Am
- MX rejected and attacked
- Dec of War
- Lincoln and abolitionists against war bcoz seen as a war to spread slavery

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