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Why did the U.S. go into war with Mexico?

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Texas and Mexico had a dispute over territory and Polk moved U.S. troops into a place that Mexico said WAS NOT in Texas. They effortlessly presumed that the land was theirs. Therefore, the Mexican army attacked them.
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