<span>Prior to the Mexican American war president Polk sent John Slidell to Mexico to negotiate an agreement between that the Rio Grande River would be the southern border of Texas. ... The United States annexed the territory of California in 1848 following its victory in the Mexican-American War.</span>
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln had conceived the reconstruction process and was poised for a show- down with congress before his assassination. His predecessor and vice-President took over the reconstruction but did not heed congress in its implementation which leads to contemporary arguments that he implemented his own fashion of presidential reconstruction.
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