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President Polk felt that war was the only way the United States would gain the territories of:

Arizona
Texas
New Mexico
California

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New Mexico and California.

Polk tried to buy them (sent John Slidell); when Mexico refused he concluded war was the only way to secure those territories — a policy that led to the Mexican–American War and the U.S. acquisition of California and New Mexico.