Expert Answer: <span>There were even blunt spokesmen who went so far as to suggest that the United States had made a bad bargain in annexing New Mexico. Some years after the Civil War, General William T. Sherman, who heartily disliked the arid country and the people of the Southwest, was quoted as saying that “the United States ought to declare war on Mexico and make it take back New Mexico.”
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The biggest reason for compromises on the slave issue was that too many slaves states are being added to the Union.
Japan did becuz they had major fleet actions
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The Red Sea and Mediterranean
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