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Thank you We sneak plan here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by bald eagles Some of the more

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self conscious ones have explored other options Shall we say

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All right check out the excerpt Texas is now our

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convention in congress and unions on her starts driving emblazoned

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with fertile land All right which of the following contributed

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most directly to the development described in the excerpt and

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hear your potential answers determination and driving policy Okay enough

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mumbling the development talked about in the excerpt is the

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annexation of texas meaning that o'sullivan is announcing the fact

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that texas has now become an official state a fact

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that some texans we'll still aren't too thrilled about u

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s out of texans like that Anyway you know some

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people still sing that any way to get this one

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right We have to find the answer that most directly

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contributed to bringing texas into the fold Option c has

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its facts wrong While migration of the southwest was taking

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place because fertile land was being over farmed elsewhere more

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people were leaving the southeast than the northeast All right

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well d isn't doing it for us either Policies like

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the monroe doctrine did prohibit europeans from sticking their big

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european noses in and colonizing american land but this is

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not what drove the american expansion of the territory Joyce

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is a little trickier to eliminate Sure political leaders didn't

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handle the issue of american indian territories well like at

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all but it's not like westward expansion was driven by

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the purpose of taking away native peoples lands No one

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wanted to take native land Specifically native americans just happen

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to have the land that the politicians wanted to take

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We're sure if the land were in the state it

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is today well they wouldn't have bothered not that that

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made the american indians feel any better about it The

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real question here is why were the politicians so determined

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to take the land in the first place Well option

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b does the best job of answering that america was

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in its awkward teen phase and was eager to be

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taken seriously by the rest of the world Its leaders

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decided the best way to do this was to dominate

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the whole continent while ramping up foreign trade which worked

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but it didn't really make everyone involved all that happy

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Sorry guys but the winners write the history books So 00:02:19.38 --> [endTime] we were good guys right Ah

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