It can. The mexican-american war also dealt with the future of the territories that were involved like the Texas territory. Since the United States won the territories from Mexico, the new colonies wanted to be slave colonies, and the general government disliked this. There would've been fewer slave colonies if they hadn't been conquered.
The Cold War, a "war" of attrition and nuclear build-up between the United States and the Soviet Union, greatly shaped American culture by the people's emphasis on space and science to beat out the Soviets.
It was <span>B) peasant life
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