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The backwoodsmen had pushed the Spaniards from the Mississippi, had set up a slave-holding republic in Texas, and had conquered the Californian gold-fields, in the sheer masterful exercise of might.
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Roosevelt acknowledges the aggressive actions of backwoodsmen in expanding American territory through force.
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