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Polk was known to provoke the Mexican war ,Why? when you think about it he moved Taylor across the Nueces which made the Mexicans mad in fact the Mexicans shed blood on U.S. soil and because of this Polk was known to provoke the Mexicans. Polk also had 4-point plan to help or better the country of America. Zachary Taylor, the man who crossed the Nueces because of Polk's decision to Provoke the Mexicans in order gain California. Since blood was shed on American soil( that's what Americans thought) but Mexicans said that Taylor was on their soil so in return they both lost few men in the petty war. now for the 4-point plan that was to better the country of America turned out to be ok. it consist of the north and south, the north, which California is on there plan being a free state means that the south in return gets to have fugitive slave law. consisting of fleeing slaves, people had to catch slaves that were trying to escape whether they want to or not plus the Utah and NM territory was owned by the south for slavery. it turned out to be a more complicated situation then it seemed. To understand everything or to summarize it up Polk wanted to provoke the Mexicans to gain California, because he wanted California so bad he offered to buy California, Polk had a motive to gain California, he had the four point plan before the war starts which proves how much he wanted California.