Opponents of the Mexican War. such as Henry David Thoreau and Abraham Lincoln, thought: A. Manifest destiny extended north toward Canada, not south toward the Rio Grande and Mexico B. It was an unjust and unfair war in which a stronger nation was beating up on a weaker nation C. Mexico was too big and powerful and that a war with it would cost too many lives and be too expensive D. The United States had grown enough and didn't need to fight Mexico for more land.

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Belinda Hendricks

8 July, 16:58

Opponents of the Mexican War. such as Henry David Thoreau and Abraham Lincoln, thought: A. Manifest destiny extended north toward Canada, not south toward the Rio Grande and Mexico B. It was an unjust and unfair war in which a stronger nation was beating up on a weaker nation C. Mexico was too big and powerful and that a war with it would cost too many lives and be too expensive D. The United States had grown enough and didn't need to fight Mexico for more land.

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Many abolitionists saw the Mexican war as an event which would lead to expansion of slavery into new territories instead of development of country in states and already possessed territories