The war with Mexico was just one chapter of United States history but do not mistake it was an important one. The Mexican American war was a war that had an impact on both ends. Most people have two sides to the war, the ones that view it as justified and the ones that oppose it. It all started in May of 1846, at this time our President was James Knox Polk. James Polk was the 11th president of the United States and became president in 1845. Polk was the first president that used his powers as commander in chief to his full advantage. With using one of those powers he had declared war on Mexico.
The war on Mexico was started with careful consideration and was anything but a rash decision. The tension between America and Mexico has already been around for months before the war started and it was started by Mexico. Mexico was another country located in North America along the southern boarder of the United States. Back then, Mexico had territories in the Untied States. Due to Mexico’s bad government the United States felt that certain territories, including present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, should be a part of the United States and not
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Mexico. Originally the United States wanted to make a peaceful treaty regarding the territories and boundaries. Even with the tensions the Untied States set forth an effort to accomplish the peace treaty. President Polk sent John Sidell to accomplish just that. When the Mexican government didn’t accept the minister or allow him to sit down and talk to them that upset Polk. President Polk had come to the conclusion that Mexico was not going to peacefully agree and decided to send troops to the Rio Grande as a back up to Sidell as a precaution.
Seeing how Mexico ran its government Polk believed that moving the troops into the Rio Grande “became, therefore, of urgent necessity to provide for the defense of that portion of our country.” Just as Polk believed thousands of years ago, many Americans still believe that America is the victim in the Mexican American war and was unfairly attacked in Rio Grande. Even once the initial attack had begun Polk still thought the war would only last a few short battles. It was not President Polk’s fault that he believed in something called Manifest Destiny. And to Polk he believed our Manifest Destiny was our god given right to
expand. Finally on Feb. 2, 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo concluded the Mexican-American War. The Mexican government was paid $15 million after everything Mexico and the United States gained a treaty (treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo) that still is around today and allows for the peace and working together of our countries. United States would not have parts of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. In conclusion, the Americans were justified to go to war with Mexico. Many conflicts upset the Mexicans and the Americans, so many people believe the war was going to happen regardless of President Polk’s actions. If you look at the war from the American side, the Americans had every right to defend their territory and people, which is exactly what happened in the war.
The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado.
Although many Americans did not take the war seriously, the Mexican-American War of 1846 was responsible for the thousands of both Mexican and American deaths, and permanently left a scar on the the U.S’ relationship with Mexico. In 1846, the U.S declared war on Mexico after shots were fired at American soldiers on the “Texas side” of the Rio Grande, which the Americans believed was the border between Mexico and the U.S. The war was very controversial, and many Americans vigorously opposed President Polk’s decision to declare war. However after winning the war, the U.S gained most of Mexico’s territory in the West, completing the Manifest Destiny (BGE). Was the U.S. right to go to war with Mexico? The United States were unjustified in going
This war was caused because the people were not happy with the government they had and they wanted to take out Porfirio Diaz of the presidency. The people weren’t happy due to the fact that the ruling of Porfirio Diaz was considered as a dictatorship. Some other important figures in the Mexican revolution were Pancho Villa, Venustiano Carranza, Francisco Madero, Victoriano Huerta, Emiliano Zapata, Alvaro Obregon, Lazaro Cardenas, Pascual Orozco, among others. Among all these revolutionary leaders Francisco villa better known as Pancho Villa in my opinion was the most important icon of the Mexican army because he had that leadership, and personality to save and help the Mexican community that was against the Mexican government and he was a true hero because he never accepted any type od
The war between Mexico and the United States started in 1846, should the United States go to war with Mexico? The United States was indeed justified in going to war with Mexico, because 16 Americans lost their lives in a battle with Mexico. Second, Mexicans were mad about the revolution, and Mexico treated U.S. diplomats poorly. Many mini-huge and impactful battles took place to unite the country and to fulfill God’s will to take all the land. While trying to execute Manifest Destiny, 16 Americans killed for the right but made a sacrifice to take dominance over Mexico.
Many people do not know that the Mexican War had increased the United States by 50%. The Mexican War started in 1846 and ended in 1848 and took place mostly south of the Rio Grande. What forced Mexico to declare war was the annexation of Texas, the citizens in Texas disobeying the Mexican laws, and Americans crossing the border. Do you think the United States had enough justification for going to war with Mexico? The United States was justified in going to war with Mexico because the United States’ Manifest Destiny beliefs, the Mexicans passed the border of Rio Grande, and the American citizens supported going to war.
The United States was unjustified to go to war with Mexico because the U.S provokes the war and starts the war, the only reason they had the Mexican war was to gain land and lastly Texas was stolen from Mexico by southern slave owners. The U.S. definitely had an advantage, they were stronger and better. So they could easily go to war with Mexico and
The United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico because America came in and broke the laws, there were no borders for Texas, and America stole Mexico's land. Tejanos(Mexicans) invited Americans in to settle in Texas. Americans also known as Anglos Broke most of the few laws Mexico made. There was a war for the independence of Texas. A couple years later, President Polk went to go ask Mexico for some of their land because of their belief called Manifest destiny.
The Spanish-American war was the first and biggest step that the United States of America took toward imperialism. It was the war that secured the US as the most powerful country in the world. This war was a benefit to the USA because we gained land, gained respect, and taught a lesson to one of our enemies. In addition to this, the losses that we suffered were almost nothing compared to other conflicts or wars. The Spanish-American war was by no means for the sole purpose of gaining land and respect, the United States freed an oppressed country and took pieces of land that were better off under US control.
Beginning in 1845 and ending in 1850 a series of events took place that would come to be known as the Mexican war and the Texas Revolution. This paper will give an overview on not only the events that occurred (battles, treaties, negotiations, ect.) But also the politics and reasoning behind it all. This was a war that involved America and Mexico fighting over Texas. That was the base for the entire ordeal. This series of events contained some of the most dramatic war strategy that has ever been implemented.
The Mexican-American war determined the destiny of the United States of America, it determined whether or not it would become a world power and it established the size of the United States of America. Perhaps the war was inevitable due to the idea of Manifest Destiny - Americans thought they had the divine right to extend their territory. The Mexican-American War started mainly because of the annexation of the Republic of Texas (established in 1836 after breaking away from Mexico). The United States and Mexico still had conflicts on what the borders of Texas was, the United States claimed that the Texas border with Mexico was the Rio Grande, but the Mexicans said that it was the Nueces River, so the land in between were disputed and claimed by both the United States and Mexico.
The Mexican-American War was fought throughout the years of 1846-1848, playing a significant role in the history of Mexico and the United States. The war was undoubtedly won by the U.S since the they had better educated commanders from West Point, and they used use of better weapons and supplies than those of Mexico. One big result of the war was that the United States would gain 539,000 square miles. Texas would be annexed and the New Mexico territory would ceded by Mexico.
was justified to go to war with Mexico is because of the way the Mexican government tried to control the Texans who immigrated from America. “Mexican leaders were aware of the near emptiness of their northern lands. One way to increase population was to welcome American settlers from the United States.” (Mexican American War Mini DBQ) Mexico’s solution to their small northern population was to offer land to Americans at a price. Americans who wanted the Mexican land needed to become loyal Mexican citizens, convert to Catholicism, live and cultivate on your land for ten years, and become anti-slavery. Many of the American emigrants flat out ignored these, the American settlers were pro-slavery, protestant, and did not obey Mexico’s rules set for them. When Americans started to rebel and revolt against the Mexican government, they tried to control the people. This lead to bloody events like the 13-day siege of the Alamo. Texas won its independence and joined the U.S. Around the time that the U.S. made the Louisiana purchase Mexico and the U.S. were about the same size. Part of declaring war against Mexico was trying to protect people from a form of government that lacks certain amendments and rights that ours
The Mexican-American war had one of the highest mortality rates. With 79,000 U.S. troops taking part in the war, 13,200 died, making a mortality rate of 17 percent. Not only were the American casualty rates high, the amount of Mexican people that died was high too, with 25,000 troops and civilians dead. This shameful war began when Texas was annexed as the 28th state of the United States. Whether the war was justifiable is very questionable. Although the United States war against Mexico resulted in the gaining of America’s most valuable land, the war itself was unjust because the American settlers didn’t follow the rules in Texas, the president sent U.S. troops into the disputed area, and because of the Americans’ motivations.
Mexico was stupid to shed American blood on Americas land. In 1846 there was a war that came upon the US and it was called the Mexican war. This war took place in Texas. Before this occurred the US wasn't being nice and fair to Mexico. The US was also breaking some laws. Was it right for the US to go to war Mexico? This war was also controversial. The US was justified in going to war with Mexico because Mexico fired first , it was Mexicos fault and the US has Texas now, and because of the manifest destiny.
Did you know that Texas used to be part of Mexico’s land, and because of the U.S. wanting to take Texas from Mexico and giving Texas citizens their independence, it ignited a spark and started the Mexican-American war. The Mexican-American war took place in early 1846. The battles took place between the Rio Grande and The Nueces River.The U.S. crossed the Mexican border which caused the Mexican government to think that the Americans were attacking them so the Mexican Government sent troops to defend the border. So did the United States have the right to go to war with Mexico. The U.S. was not justified in going to war with Mexico because American soldiers crossed the border, stole some of Mexico's land (Texas), and accused Mexico of sending Mexican troops onto America's land and attacking American soldiers.