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1- What do you think that Polk's message convinced Congress to vote to go to war with Mexico?

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That fact the Polk's message convinced Congress to vote to go to war with Mexico showed ow eager the United States was to gain territory, since this speech provided relatively no rational arguments in favor for war. 
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