Reasons for War with Mexico and How New Territories Becoming States Would Be A Big Problem for a Unified Nation

Answer the following two questions with three or four sentences each. Then respond to ONE other student with at least one or two sentences (you only have to respond to their response to one of the two questions).

1.). What justifications in Americans minds was there for going to war with Mexico and taking Mexico’s land? In the first anti-war movement, why would some “activists” like Henry David Thoreau be anti-war and against the war with Mexico?
2.) How would new territories that the U.S. gained in the West now becoming states become such a huge problem for maintaining the national unity of the United States?

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