The American politics of 1847-60 assumed that we were not done adding territory south of the border. That really only changed after the defeat of Grant's proposals in 1869-71 to annex Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic).https://twitter.com/HaikuJonah/status/1174439127283949568 …
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After 1871, the idea of U.S. expansion died off as the international situation stabilized & the country focused on the West. Later acquisitions - Hawaii, the proceeds of the Spanish-American War - were not, at least when acquired, seen as future states.
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So you're saying we dropped the ball?!!
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We made an offer for Greenland in 1946.
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