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ANSWER: A) could not focus only on business and economics.
EXPLANATION: The dollar diplomacy was not limited to the discussions of business and economics favoring USA but it also expanded to terms of foreign policy. It was also discussed that the USA has the right to intervene if any country in the western hemisphere appears politically and financially vulnerable.
There was great tension between pro-slavery and anti-slavery representatives over how new territories won would handle the issue of slavery.
The Mexican-American War and the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, forced onto the remnant Mexican government, drew some criticism in the U.S. for their casualties, monetary cost, and heavy-handedness. Furthermore, the question of how to treat the new acquisitions also intensified the debate over slavery and in many ways inflamed it, as potential westward expansion of the institution took an increasingly central and heated theme in national debates preceding the American Civil War.
