The most important thing was to be able to be a market for the colonial masters. It was often the case that the colonial masters used the colonies as a market because they had a mercantilist policy.
They used the colonies to sell their goods, and often traded with them, such as slaves. Sugar and tobacco were important for the american colonies that europe took. Coming out of Africa, slaves were the main market.
Answer: Democrats, especially those in the Southwest, strongly favoured the Mexican-American War. Most Whigs, however, viewed the war as conscienceless land grabbing, and the Whig-controlled House voted 85 to 81 to censure Democratic Pres. James K. Polk for having “unnecessarily and unconstitutionally” initiated the war.
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Johnson was unwillingly caught up in the hot battle (Vietnam War) of the Cold War. Johnson was the US's only Presidential Administration to be destroyed by the war. He went on nation wide television and flat out said he would not run for president again, and would NOT ACCEPT nomination for the presidency of the United States. He was truly fed-up with the war.
