Question

1. Besides acquiring Texas, what additional land did President James K. Polk seek to obtain from Mexico?

Answer 1

Polk instructed Slidell to make an offer that the U.S. would pay off Mexico's debt in order to acquire "Upper California and New Mexico" and would spend as much as $40 million to purchase the land. . . . the war he fought against Mexico . . .

Government positions: President of the United States