LAD/Blog #13: Polk's War Message

Polk's war message starts with talking about how the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico has been tense, but the U.S. wants a peaceful relationship so Polk reopened the affair with Mexico in hopes of coming to a peaceful agreement. This ending up failing. Mexico refused peace and invaded the U.S. During this time, in Mexico, the government was changing. The former president left office leaving the head military leader in charge. This new leader did not share the same views as American Diplomats or previous leaders of mexico. Polk still believed that he and the Mexican leader could come to peaceful terms on the topic of Texas, so he integrated Texas into the Union. Later on, Mexico stormed Texas and the Americans had to surrender to the military. Because of this, any sort of peaceful relationship with mexico was out of the picture, and Polk declared the relationship as war. 

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