The end result of the Texas-Mexico War was The Republic of Texas for about 10 years Texas was an independent country.…
Was Mexico justified to go to war with the United States? This essay argues the US was justified because Mexico invaded US territory, Mexician territories needed a new government, and Mexican territories didn´t respect the US reconciliation. Mexico invaded the United States terrirory. The quote that supports this is,”Mexico has passed the boundry of the United States… has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil. ”(Polk).…
To begin with, the internal opposition began with the strong anti-slavery movement that grew as a result of efforts by abolitionists. Over time, support for emancipation was garnering steadily and quickly, however, this meant that the conflict between slave and free states continued to rise as well. Because of this, the Mexican American war only escalated the high tensions; the question of what was to be done with the possible acquisition of an extremely large territory was posed, in regards to the balance of slave and free states. Abolitionist saw that the war posed an extreme threat to this balance, and would only expand slavery to the land that would be acquired. Henry Clay, a senator, expressed his view that was very similar to those who…
Yes, United States was justified in going to war with Mexico. The Mexican-American War was fought mostly because of Texas's border confusion. When Texas won its independence from Mexico, they stated that the "great big river of the south" would be the border, but because of Texan's vagueness, Mexicans thought the Nueces River was the border, while the U.S. and Texas claims they were talking about the Rio Grande. The reasons America was justified in going to war with Mexico is the fact that Mexico had not exert any governmental attention to Texas, many Americans were already there, and they passed the boundary of the U.S., and killed Americans there.…
The Mexican-American War served as catalyst that channeled the divisions between the North and South and the division within the political parties. The war was fought over American expansion near Mexican territory, which created major tensions that resulted in full blown war in 1846. The war was very controversial because it raised sectional tensions between the different regions within the United States. Many in the North were opposed to the war because they believed it was being fought to expand slavery. Further, some viewed it as unconstitutional; one of the most famous protests was when Henry David Thoreau refused to pay taxes to show his opposition. When the war was finished, there was further division as to what the Unites States should…
Moving on, in 1898, the Spanish American War came into existence under the leadership of President William McKinley. A few years before McKinley came into office, Cuba attempted to overthrow Spanish colonial rule, and in return, the Spanish rulers started using harsh policies that included concentration camps. The rebels received financial assistance from private U.S. interests and used America as a base of operations from which to attack. McKinley originally tried to avoid an armed conflict with Spain, but the American media, lambasted McKinley as weak and ignited an intense reaction to what was taking place in Cuba. The convergence of anti-Spanish public opinion and the government's desire to protect American economic interests in Cuba prompted…
The war with Mexico came at a time when much of the country had strong feelings of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny is the belief that fate had preordained the US to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans and from Canada to the Rio Grande. “the nation of many nations is destined to manifest to mankind the excellence of divine principles….it shall be a hemisphere – its roof the firmament of the star-studded heavens…” (Document 1). This ideal had strong influence and was one reason that there was so much popular support for the US expansion west. This ideal, while nationalistic, did not give Polk the right to go into Mexico and seize land which was rightfully theirs. The US vision of manifest destiny helped to win the public’s support for the Mexican war (Doc 2). Yet the public was misled by this sense of Manifest Destiny and those that did support it supported an unjust war.…
Why the issue of slavery was used as propaganda against the war, and why that argument is more centered on economics, not the idea that slavery was inherently evil.…
James Polk who was president at the time pushed for us to get land from the Mexicans. When Polk sent someone to offer 25 million max to buy it they refused, so he later sent troops under Zachary Taylor to the disputed border of Texas and Mexico. The Mexicans were angered by this and fighting broke out which led Polk to declare war on Mexico. All of the fighting could have been prevented had James Polk and his need of Manifest Destiny taken over. Most Americans supported the war but some in the north thought the south was going to try and make it a slave state and didn’t want that. Many Whigs question if the Mexicans had actually hurt anyone on American soil like Polk said they did. In the end the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo confirmed the annexation…
The Mexican war was a war worth fighting for a few reason. The first key reason that we should have fought this war is that it was in the best interest of the country at the time and the many people in the U.S. believed in manifest destiny which was the belief that the expansion of the U.S. was justified and important. Another reason that this war would have been justified is that at the time was that mexico was a fairly new country. They had only gained independence from spain about 20 years before the mexican war. The U.S. didn’t think that Mexico was capable of controlling the amount of land that they claimed as theirs. It said in Document A that, “Mexico never can exert any real government over such a country” A third reason that this…
After the Spanish Conquest, many written document have become used as sources that help recount major events from the past. Therefore, it becomes that job of historians to analyze sources and determine their accuracy and relevancy. “The Conquest of New Spain” written by Bernal Díaz and “The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico” are two sources whose themes can be compared and contrasted in order to determine their accuracy as primary sources. There are several themes portrayed throughout both sources such as: the civility of Cortez and Montezuma, initial encounters, the difference between the perception of gift versus greed, and the variation of religious…
The physical beginning of the Mexican-American war between the United States and Mexico began with a Mexican attack on American troops who were stationed on the southern border of Texas on April 25, 1846. The swift conclusion to the war took place as General Winfield Scott occupied the Mexican capitol city, Mexico City on September 14, 1847. Within a few months, the Treaty of Guadalupe was signed with Mexico recognizing the US annexation of Texas as well as Mexico succeeding from California and New Mexico.1 The causes of the Mexican-American war varies from historian to historian. Some blame a dictatorial Centralist government of Mexico beginning the war by continuing to claim Texas even after its establishment of an independent republic. Others argue the United States provoked war with Mexico by annexing Texas as well as stationing troops at the Mexican border. A final thought is that the greed of United States President James Polk who “forced Mexico to war in order to seize California and the Southwest”.2 The most likely cause of the Mexican-American War is a combination of the three.…
Webster argued that the war with Mexico and the admission of new states would be horrible. This was his own opinion, but many individuals during this time period felt the way that he did. Webster talks of what the president has his mind set on and how that mindset cannot be changed. This is viewed as a problem that Webster can not get over, he feels that the president should listen to the people and not be caught up in his own mindset. The mindset of the president was one that was given to him by many of the people of the United States, but was it the majority of the people? Webster never discusses this with his readers. This may be for certain reasons; maybe the majority did feel the need for expansion. Webster would have hurt his own argument for him to put that in this article.…
In the 19th century American as a nation became more imperialistic. While other countries were expanding American decided to expand too. One of the influential forces to bring about imperialism was missionaries. Missionaries travelled to other countries to spread the word of god and other civility to other nations. While in these nations the missionaries would get involved in government and roles in society, like teachers. Another proponent in the advancement of imperialism was the Frederick Jackson Turner Thesis. Turners said that people had the frontier to spread westward and it agreed with our democratic system. After a census it was revealed that there was no more of the frontier to be taken. On the other side, the government…
The Mexican American War began on April 25, 1846. The war lasted two years losing many men on both sides. The Mexican war was the third major fought by the United States. In 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla triggers the beginning of Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain. Mexico gained its independence in 1821 after a long and bloody revolution against Spain. For Mexico, the war between them and the United States was a fight to keep their institutions and national integrity intact, to protect themselves from present and future aggressions by the Americans, but more than anything else, the war was a struggle for land. In the early days of the republic, most Americans made their living by farming, so in 1803 President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Purchase Territory because he wanted to provide “room enough for out descendants to the thousandth and ten thousandth generation.” In 1803 the United States purchased land from Napoleon west of the Mississippi, also known as the Louisiana Purchase. The Unites States nearly doubled in size, extending its borders two thirds of the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. In 1804-1806 the Lewis and Clark expedition explores western North America. Mexico had a population of only about 2,500 living in Texas, they offered cheap land to attract Americans and build up the territory. Mexico only allowed one religion which was Catholicism and for everyone to follow the teachings of the church. The U.S government marked the route of the Santa Fe Trail so settlers in New Mexico can get goods from the U.S that they have not been able to get from Mexico. By the early 1800s many of the inhabitants of Mexico didn’t like the Spanish Rule and wanted to establish a democratic government. In 1810 there were several executions. The gachupines (those born in Spain) executed Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla who had led a large group of mestizos (the offspring of mixed marriages) who were rebels in…