Polk had proclaimed in 1845 near the start of his presidency that the attainment of California was one of "four great measures" he wanted to achieve while in office. Historian Sam W. Haynes has recognized Polk as a "fitting representative" of the "expansionist impulse" known as the Manifest Destiny. As a situation of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which finished the Mexican War, the administration of Mexico conceded to the U.S. a massive amount of land that contained within the current state of California.
<span>Polk was very insistent to acquire California, it is because he very much wanted to start a negotiation between the United States and Mexico. He was even willing to give a threat of war just to be able to push the negotiation.</span>
Some of the peoples it conquered didn't want to be ruled by the Incas and were rebellious, mainly, and it was so big that it couldn't keep the conquered in line very well.
The current shapes of the continents align with eachother in a way that would lead us to believe they were once part of a whole mass, cientists call this the pangea theory something that is further supported by the correlating geography of each continent.
