![]() ![]() In their quest to expand Thomas Jefferson’s and Andrew Jackson’s empire of liberty, Americans succeeded in rending the Republic in 1860 over the question of the expansion of slavery into the newly acquired territories of the West. The ideological seeds of the American Civil War, in turn, were sown during that conflict. The origins of the Mexican War are rooted in the rapid expansion of American settlers west and the annexation of the Texas Republic to the United States in 1845.
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