During the Civil War, when the north was embroiled in bitter fighting with the southern states, Texas, which was barely a state and was still a hotely contested territory with the Mexicans, solidified its hold as a soverign nation and begain gobbling land north and west of its borders. Without the troops to stop them, the United States and the Republic of Mexico let this formidible country expand in size and power to the state it is today.
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