United States which country Texas really belonged to . The final straw in the matter , as far as Mexico was concerned , was when the United States sent a representative , John Slidell , to Mexico to offer to buy the Mexican territories of California and New Mexico . The United States wanted these territories in to keep Britain from exercising any territorial claims there , and also wanted access to the Pacific Ocean in to better facilitate trade with Asia . Though Slidell presented the Mexican...











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