The correct answer to this open question is the following,
In 1829, President Andrew Jackson offered to buy Texas from Mexico for $5 million. The Mexican government responded to President Jackson's offer to buy Texas with a negative. Mexican rulers did not agree.
The reaction of the Mexican government was to prohibit more American emigration to Texas. United States people and some Texans did not want to learn and assimilate the Mexican culture, did not want to convert into Catholicism, and never considered learning Spanish, the official language in México.
Texans did not consider themselves Americans, either Mexicans; they were Texans and were eager to form their own Republic.
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The question is incomplete. This is the complete question:
What territories did the US gain as a result of winning the Spanish-American War?
The territories gained by the US included Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines
Explanation:
The Treaty of Paris (1898)—which was a treaty signed by the US and Spain, and a product of the Spanish-American War—consisted of agreements and terms of negotiation that favored the US, and allowed it to gain the territories of Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines—which, prior to the Paris treaty of 1898, were controlled by Spain. The US became a major power and player in the Pacific region after it gained these territories.
