Polk claimed that no other power similarly situated would have refused the annexation of Texas. Do you agree or disagree? Explain how each side, at the outbreak of the Mexican War, could claim that the other was the aggressor. Were the annexation of Texas and the sending of General Taylor to the Rio Grande unconstitutional, as the abolitionists claimed? If England had held Mexico, as it did Canada, how would matters have been worked out differently?

Polk claimed that no other power similarly situated would have refused the annexation of Texas. Do you agree or disagree? Explain how each side, at the outbreak of the Mexican War, could claim that the other was the aggressor. Were the annexation of Texas and the sending of General Taylor to the Rio Grande unconstitutional, as the abolitionists claimed? If England had held Mexico, as it did Canada, how would matters have been worked out differently?