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B required to attend mass daily
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It change it in a way that Ottomans from now on held more control over the silk rode which forced Europeans into face the ATlantic to find new ways to the far East
b. development of industrial manufacturing
c. expansion of trade routes
d. spread of democratic governments
Answer:A
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The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México, was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered Mexican territory since the government did not recognize the Velasco treaty signed by Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna when he was a prisoner of the Texian Army during the 1836 Texas Revolution. The Republic of Texas was de facto an independent country, but most of its citizens wished to be annexed by the United States. Domestic sectional politics in the U.S. were preventing annexation since Texas would have been a slave state, upsetting the balance of power between northern free states and southern slave states. In the 1844 United States presidential election, Democrat James K. Polk was elected on a platform of expanding U.S. territory in Oregon and Texas. Polk advocated expansion by either peaceful means or by armed force, with the 1845 annexation of Texas furthering that goal by peaceful means. For Mexico, this was a provocation, but Polk went further, sending U.S. Army troops to the area; he also sent a diplomatic mission to Mexico to try to negotiate the sale of territory. U.S. troops' presence was provocative and designed to lure Mexico into starting the conflict, putting the onus on Mexico and allowing Polk to argue to Congress that a declaration of war should be issued. Mexican forces attacked U.S. forces, and the United States Congress declared war.
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Here you go, btw you should give more than 8 points ;/
Mexican War (1846–48).After weeks of fruitless diplomacy, the United States and the republic of Mexico declared war on each other in the spring of 1846. By the 1840s, many Americans held the view that the United States should reach from the Atlantic all the way to the Pacific Ocean. In 1844, Democrat James K. Polk of Tennessee ran for the presidency and won on a platform of expansionism, embracing the popular concept of “manifest destiny”—that God approved U.S. expansion throughout the continent. Polk opened diplomacy designed to redeem his campaign pledges to purchase California and other Mexican lands as well as to obtain the Oregon country from Britain. Considered in grand strategic terms, Polk intended to make the United States the undisputed national power on the North American continent and to obtain West Coast ports. The British agreed to an equitable treaty dividing Oregon, but no self‐respecting patriotic Mexican leader would be satisfied with any amount of money for California.
U.S. annexation of Texas sparked the war. The Texas Revolution of 1836 had won independence for the republic of Texas, but Mexico never officially recognized the loss of the province. Polk's predecessor, John Tyler, arranged the annexation of Texas into the United States in 1845 by a joint resolution of both Houses of Congress before Polk was sworn in. According to Mexico, the United States had torn away one of its provinces. The Mexican government rejected Polk's final offer of $35 million for California and other lands and dispatched military forces to the Rio Grande. It also rejected Texas and U.S. claims that the border extended south to the Rio Grande instead of the Nueces River.
On 23 April 1846, President Mariano Paredes announced that a state of “defensive” war existed between Mexico and the United States, in response to the violation of the Texas border by U.S. soldiers under Gen. Zachary Taylor, who marched under Polk's orders from Louisiana through Texas up to the Nueces River. On 25 April, Mexican and U.S. forces fought a skirmish between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. Eleven U.S. dragons were killed, five wounded and forty‐seven captured. It took several days for word of the skirmish to reach President Polk, who had previously decided on war even before Paredes's announcement. On 11 May, he asked Congress to acknowledge the state of war that Mexico had already announced, but did so with a resounding and controversial call: “American blood has been shed on American soil.” On 13 May, Congress strongly endorsed Polk's request, 174–14 in the House of Representatives and 40–2 in the Senate. Critics, mostly northern Whigs, condemned the president's action, asserting that he sought war to acquire more slave territory and denying that the disputed border area belonged to the United States.
Northern Mexico included two commercial centers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and San Francisco, California. Lightly populated and distant from Mexico City, both provinces were difficult to defend. Polk met with his cabinet and formulated a remarkably ambitious strategy. He ordered U.S. soldiers to invade New Mexico, capture Santa Fe, then proceed to conquer California, where a naval squadron would assist them in securing the province. Meanwhile, General Taylor with less than 3,000 regulars would drive Mexican forces south of the Rio Grande, which the United States claimed as the international boundary. Polk assumed that if U.S. forces occupied the Rio Grande as well as key spots in New Mexico and California, Mexico would have no choice but to concede the fait accompli, and the United States would have won the war.
For their part, however, the Mexicans stood ready to fight, both for the defense of their territory and the future of their fledgling nation, which only twenty‐four years earlier had won its independence from Spain. Mexico possessed a tiny naval coast guard and on paper had a national army of more than 30,000 soldiers, over three times the U.S. Army's size at 8,500 officers and men. Numbers masked contrasts between the two armies, however. The Mexican Army was indifferently trained and unevenly equipped. Some units had enthusiastic officers, good weapons, and adequate supplies; others were deficient in all respects. Many Mexican officers held honorific commissions but knew little about military matters. The army had been involved with intrigues in the national capital, where commanders went in and out of favor with the political winds. Thus, the Mexican Army had more weaknesses than strengths.