Question 10 • DRHS GA-GSE US History A
President Polk wanted to expand the United States westward, especially into California and the Southwest. Taking this territory would advance Manifest Destiny, the belief that the United States was destined to spread across the continent. Polk had settled the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain, and Texas had already joined the United States, so those were not his main reasons for risking war with Mexico.
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