According to Mexico, the United States had torn away one of its provinces. Polk's predecessor, John Tyler, arranged the annexation of Texas into the United States in 1845 by a joint resolution of both Houses of Congress before Polk was sworn in. The Texas Revolution of 1836 had won independence for the republic of Texas, but Mexico never officially recognized the loss of the province. The British agreed to an equitable treaty dividing Oregon, but no self‐respecting patriotic Mexican leader would be satisfied with any amount of money for California. Considered in grand strategic terms, Polk intended to make the United States the undisputed national power on the North American continent and to obtain West Coast ports. Polk opened diplomacy designed to redeem his campaign pledges to purchase California and other Mexican lands as well as to obtain the Oregon country from Britain. Polk of Tennessee ran for the presidency and won on a platform of expansionism, embracing the popular concept of “ manifest destiny”-that God approved U.S. By the 1840s, many Americans held the view that the United States should reach from the Atlantic all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Mexican War (1846–48).After weeks of fruitless diplomacy, the United States and the republic of Mexico declared war on each other in the spring of 1846.
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