Here is the categorization of each quote from the passage:
| Quotes | Category | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------| | "The act was a questionable one. Many Northerners believed that Polk, a Southerner, was trying to gain land for the slaveholding South. Other Americans simply thought it was wrong to use war to take land from Mexico." | Not Justified | | "Polk started out by trying to buy the land. He sent an American diplomat, John Slidell, to Mexico City to offer $30 million for it. But the Mexican government refused to even meet with Slidell." | Justified | | "Polk…declared, '[Mexico] has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon American soil,' and sent the order for war to Congress on May 11." | Justified | | "…Ulysses S. Grant…would later call the war 'one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.'" | Not Justified |