The best answer is, newspaper articles.
<span>President
William McKinley served as the 25th President of the United States and during
his two terms in office, he and his administration used national newspapers to
read the public's overall opinion regarding policies and actions of the
President. Though President McKinley was received well by the American people
he was assassinated by an anarchist and succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. </span>
Answer:
Find the explanation below.
Explanation:
1. The central idea of this text is that the United States was justified in annexing Texas. The author supports this in his statement, "Imbecile and distracted, Mexico never can exert any real governmental authority over such a country." The writer here means that only the United States had the true rights to rule over Texas.
2. Yes, according to this document, the United States was right in going into war with Mexico. The speaker in the text strongly justifies the annexation of Texas by the United States because he believes that a country like Mexico lacked what it took to preside over Texas. He also believed that it was the manifest destiny of the United States approved by God for them to expand their territory to accommodate their growing population.
At the time Jefferson was in limbo over whether or not the president had the power to buy land from foreign countries. However after the negotiations he saw that the amount of land proposed was well worth the possible overstepping of his role. He also in the beginning only wanted New Orleans however Napoleon offered to sell it all because he needed funding for his war with Europe.
