Northern lawmakers were hesitant to go to war with Mexico because in the North people began to question the system as they increasingly viewed it as immoral and believed that it was wrong for person to enslave another. By starting a war with Mexico, they believe that the new territories would create more slave states and perpetuate the system further. Aside from that, President James Polk also wanted to acquire the territories of California, New Mexico and Oregon. Eventually war broke out when American troops to the Rio Grande and Nueces River regard as disputed territories.
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The correct answer should be Black men, carpetbaggers, and scalawags.
The black people were emancipated African-American people who joined the local governments. Carpetbaggers were northern politicians who moved south in order to attain wealth and high political power. Scalawags were were southern supporters of the republican party and the reconstruction. All three groups joined southern politics after the Civil War.
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