Jackson the democrat feared that annexing Texas would lead to a war with Mexico which he was not ready for. However,another problem was caused by the issue of balancing slave states with free states. Texas was a free state and therefore would cause an imbalance to the union.
Answer: Because, predominantly in the agricultural Western region of the United States, the demand for cheap labor was extremely high at the time. The source of this cheap labor were Mexican immigrants.
After the war, there were two factions. Those who wanted to let them back if they voted to join back, and those who were radicalized and wanted to humiliate them while making them join the union again. Either way, reconstruction was on the way and a lot of politicians went south from the north to gain political power.
They feared being invaded and threatened by NATO because of NATO's exercise of nuclear capability.
Answer:
Carl Vinson added the Naval Expansion Legislation to strengthen the US Navy in terms of latest ships.
Explanation:
- Carl Vinson was appointed as the chairman of the House of Naval Affairs in 1931.
- Vinson-Trammell Act was pushed by Vinson in 1934 to authorize the replacement of old vessels with the new ones along with increasing the number of ships.
- During the time of World War II, Vinson was responsible for additional Naval Expansion that made it enter world war 2 and match the Japanese ships and vessels.
