What happened?
The Mexican authorities sent letters to the United States government in protest to the war.The Mexican war is when the Mexicans were offered $40 million for California from the United States, but they rejected the offer. In that war over 4,000 soldiers (half the U.S. army) was under the command of Zachary Taylor.So Polk believed a small war would change their position .Then in 1845, there was a dispute over the U.S. government’s annexation of Texas.There was a gold strike in Georgia that brought $24.5 million in gold by 1848. Also where the gold was founded was in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina.
The Mexican authorities sent letters to the United States government in protest to the war.The Mexican war is when the Mexicans were offered $40 million for California from the United States, but they rejected the offer. In that war over 4,000 soldiers (half the U.S. army) was under the command of Zachary Taylor.So Polk believed a small war would change their position .Then in 1845, there was a dispute over the U.S. government’s annexation of Texas.There was a gold strike in Georgia that brought $24.5 million in gold by 1848. Also where the gold was founded was in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina.