Question

Why did president polk's battle strategy misfire? native americans helped the mexican soldiers. mexico refused to trade land for peace. u.s. soldiers deserted the army. santa anna surrounded the troops at veracruz?

Answer 1

The correct answer is mexico refused to trade land for peace.

Eventually they had to trade the land since the war ended in what is considered by many a stalemate. Of course, the United States got a lot of territories so it was a good stalemate for them and nowadays it is considered to be a victory. Texas also became sovereign and independent.