Before Polk, the United States and Mexico had boundaries along the Rio Grande River. Texas and Polk claimed that America's southern border ran down to the river south of the United States' positon back then. They had a war, but Mexico lost and U.S kept expanding.
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Generally speaking, Congress put federal troops in the South to ensure that the most basic elements of Reconstruction were being adhered to, however many see Reconstruction as a failure due to the fact that Congress stopped enforcing it too soon--leading to the rise of Jim Crow laws.
<span>B.By bolstering European economies to discourage them from supporting communism </span>
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