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with Democrats siding with expansion, and Abraham Lincoln calling the war a "conquest brought into existence to catch votes." Among the territories gained by the United States was California ...

and the recent turn towards territorial expansion is quite reminiscent of Jacksonian attitudes towards aggressively expanding the boundaries of the United States," Adams said. "That said ...