The origin of the term "Middle East" is considered to be in the British India Office during the 1850s. It was popularized by Alfred Thayer Mahan, an American naval strategist who was referring to the region between Arabia and India in 1902. Mahan's definition of the Middle East was the area around the Persian Gulf.
A cause was that Texas declared its independence from Mexico. It changed the U.S. by the U.S. gaining California, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and parts of Wyoming.
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Primary elections, often abbreviated to primaries, are a process by which voters can indicate their preference for their party's candidate, or a candidate