<span>Political parties. You know. Like what we are seeing in Congress now, where government is paralyzed because each side is more concerned about partisan politics than about the people.</span>
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be the one having to do with the idea that they make people on welfare lazy and dependent on "government handouts", although this has been wildly discredited. </span></span>
Answer:
The United States had more people in the territory than Britain and the United States was not looking for war with Britain when Mexico was ready to fight.
