Egypt. Hieroglyphics and Sumerian cuneiform
The cause of the increasingly tense relations between the mexican government and the american residents in texas after 1830 was mainly the increasing american immigration, that brought with it many cultural and social conflicts, since the Mexican natives became the minority in Texas, reaching only 7800 against the 30,000 English-speaking inhabitants, bringing as a consequence a conflict for the independence of Texas and then the annexation to the United States of America.
Answer: the answer is Benjamin Harrison
The name for this idea is "Domino Effect" - this is a theory that says that if one country falls to Communism the neighboring countries would also fall to Communism, much like pieces of Dominos fall when a neighboring piece fell.
This theory was important in the Foreign politics of the US during the cold war.