A few days before Polk made this request to Congress, he learned that Mexican forces had crossed the Rio Grande and killed eleven US soldiers. On April 24, 1846, the Mexican cavalry attacked and captured the personnel of one of the US detachments at the Rio Grande. After this border conflict, battles between the Mexican and US forces broke out in Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
Polk considered this a casus belli and in a message to the Congress of 11 May 1846 he asserted that Mexico had "invaded our territory and shed US blood on US soil". He did not dwell on the fact that there was a dispute over the territory in question. A number of congressmen expressed doubts about the version provided by Polk, but Congress passed the war declaration by an overwhelming majority, with numerous Liberals (Whigs) intimidated by the fact that their opposition would cost them politically. The war was declared on May 13, 1846. The Congressmen originally from the North of the United States and the Liberals in principle opposed the war, while those originating from the South of the United States and the Democrats tended to support it. Mexico declared war on May 23rd.
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Eli Whitney was the inventor of cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton. By April 1793, Whitney had designed and constructed the cotton gin, a machine that automated the separation of cotton seeds from short staple cotton fiber.
Eli Whitney could not benefit from his invention because the limitations of his machine appeared, and his 1794 patent for cotton gin could not be kept in court until 1807. Whitney could not stop others from copying and selling his cotton gin design.
Eli Whitney and his business partner Phineas Miller decided to go into the ginning business themselves. They made as many cotton gins as possible and installed them throughout Georgia and the southern states. They took an unusual fee from the farmers, two-fifths of the profits brought by the cotton itself.
Farmers all over Georgia were indignant at the fact that they had to go to the cotton gins of Eli Whitney, where they had to pay what they considered an exorbitant tax. Instead, the planters began making their own versions of Eli Whitney’ gin and claiming they were “new” inventions. Miller filed costly lawsuits against the owners of these pirated versions, but due to loopholes in the wording of the patent act of 1793, they could not win any lawsuits until 1800, when the law was changed.
Seeking to make a profit and mired in legal battles, the partners finally agreed to license gins at a reasonable price.
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They serve until they die, retire, resign, impeached, etc. But basically they can be judge until they die if they want to.
The invention and creation of the telegraph made a faster and cheaper method to send information across the nation, The Pony Express ended because of an advance in technology.
Answer:Set up on a permanent basis
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