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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Expansion was still on the table then, with fights over slavery removed as an obstacle. We bought Alaska in 1867, investigated buying Greenland & Iceland in 1868, & there were still proposals to annex Canada until its confederation in mid-1867.
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