Did+Polk+provoke+the+Mexican+American+war+to+expand+slavery+or+gain+california?+N.F.

Once upon a time, there was a magical land called America, and all the people of the land were happy and they frolicked with their joyous darkies and played banjos and picked cotton and all was well. James K. Polk was the big man on campus and he had an agenda. He wanted California and he would do anything to get it. He was already arguing over the border of Texas. Americans thought it was the Rio Grande, and the Mexicanos thought it was the Nueces River. Tensions built. Suddenly, Polk being the precious little monster he is decided to ruffle the Mexicans feathers by advancing toward the Rio Grande. The Mexican's land was being jeopardized, they had to respond so they went in and took some dudes out. This was exactly the out Polk was looking for. He claimed it was the Mexicans who killed Americans on American soil and thus, the Mexican War happened. He did it because earlier he had tried to buy California, but the Mexicans just weren't selling which really ticked Polk off. So he went in and took what he wanted, along with a lot of extra land for cheaper than he had offered to pay in the beginning. People even thought that he only paid what he did out of charity because he felt bad for bullying our tan neighbors to the south. How precious. He wanted a transcontinental railroad and easy access to the gold mine that was the east Asian countries. California would give him those things. Plus he believed in Manifest Destiny that said that it was American right to expand west over the continent. What a guy. Oh yeah. A good guy indeed. Affirmative. He was the president, el presidente, el hefe. Yup.