Are you a domestic terrorist?

[kandrathe]

Mexico was obviously not happy about Texan independence, and never fully reconciled themselves to it.

I thought Polk in a political double cross annexed Texas into the Union against the majority of Texan's will in 1845, a decade after the Alamo. Texas, and in a way the whole Manifest Destiny movement along with the bill that prohibited slavery in any of the new states was impetus for the civil war. Not so much that the Whigs embraced slavery. They were just anti-Imperialists seeking to limit federal power, which eventually spawned the republican party -- and Lincoln.