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Was the United States Justified in Going to War with Mexico?

As someone new to the world sets up something would it be right if someone just took it from them with force? This kind of event happened on April 25th, 1846 to Mexico, which where America took land from them through force. The event that triggered the beginning of the war was American troops patrolling an area North of the Rio Grande. American troops engaged a large body of Mexican soldiers that had just crossed the Rio Grande. Did the United States have a good justified reason on going to war with Mexico. The first reason the Mexican-American War was not justified was the mobilization of American troops in disputed territory. The Mexican military had already been engaged

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