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Joel Poinsett
In 1825 President John Quincy Adams appointed Joel Poinsett as the first
U.S. minister to Mexico. His first assignment was to persuade the Mexican
government to sell the U.S. the province of Texas, thus continuing the
rapid expansion of the American democracy. The United States continued to
pursue Texas with little success for t ....
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.... squeeze on the
Mexicans which would leave them with no other option than to strike back.
Polk waited for the initial attack to be made by the Mexicans and then
struck back. Polk claimed that American blood had been spilled on American
soil, thus garnering enough public and congressional support to declare war
on Mexico safe from domestic unrest. Norman Graebner states that, " Polk
was too astute a politician to favor any cause until public opinion had
crystallized "1 Although the war decleration contained no reference to the
territorial conquest, Polk's persaona ....
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