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Slavery was widespread and enslaved outnumbered the free.
S&Ls; lost money. They had to pay high interest on deposits, but took in less money from low interest loans.
The use of icons was gradually forgotten
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war between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). The war—in which U.S. forces were consistently victorious—resulted in the United States’ acquisition of more than 500,000 square miles 1,300,000 square km of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean Polk began to prepare a war message to Congress, justifying hostilities on the grounds of Mexican refusal to pay US claims and refusal to negotiate with Slidell That evening he received word that Mexican troops had crossed the Rio Grande on April 25 and attacked Taylor’s troops killing or injuring 16 of them In his quickly revised war message delivered to Congress on claimed that Mexico had “invaded our territory and shed American blood on American soil
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2. Relations with America's European allies in NATO
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President Clinton's foreign policies experienced hiccups in his first years in office stumbled such as listed above except his relation with America's allies, Germany and France in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.