Was It Necessary ? With congress supporting the war, citizens is the United States questioned why the it was needed and began the anti-war demonstrations. The American invasions first came to be when Mexico gained independence from Spain. Mexico took in American settlers to occupy Texas. Texans disrespected Mexico’s laws they had in place. Soon, the Congress annexed Texas to piece together polk’s promise, this angered Mexico, still claiming Texas as their land, and interpreted this as a sign of war. Despite the selfish American government’s battle with Mexico resulted in the gaining of Americans most valuable land, the war itself was unnecessary because of the Texas Revolution, the intentions of expanding U.S land, and the completion …show more content…
of Manifest Destiny. The United States waging war on their neighboring country was unethical due to the motivations of the American Texans being corrupt.
According to a letter written by a Tejanos, who witnessed the Americans flooding Texas and disobeying Mexico’s laws, named Rafael Antonio Manchola to a military commander in 1826, “The Anglo-American colonist… refuse to follow our laws, unless it was convenient for them.”. To explain, when Mexico implaced laws, the Texans got angered and complained, even though they swore to obey them. These illogical acts of the Texans resulted in the unnecessary battle of the two neighboring countries. Also said by Rafael Antonio Manchola, “...been using their own colonist as judges and practicing their own laws, forgetting that they swore to obey them.”. To emphasize, Texans continued to disregard the laws that were inserted by the Mexican Government, even though they were fully aware of the laws before moving to Texas. In order to prevent future complications, the government of Mexico employed more laws and tightened the settlers freedom. Texans then started to rebel and soon with these disgraceful acts, the unethical war between America and Mexico came to …show more content…
be. The acts by Congress were immoral that lead to the American invasion with the intentions of expanding U.S land and annexing Texas. As stated by Benjamin Lundy in his pamphlet for the anti-war movement, “The immediate and main goal of this war has been to grab the large and valuable territory… in order to re-establish the system of slavery.”. In other words, the Congress’s main drive was the desire to extend their land, only to transform it into a slave state. These despicable acts to expand snowballed into the invalid invasion. Mentioned Joshua Giddings in the U.S congress debate, “It has therefore become necessary to extend our domains into Mexico in order to render slavery secure in Texas.” To repeat, the main objective of the U.S congress was to increase their domain to create room for slavery. This caused tensions because Mexico’s intentions for texas was to protect runaway slaves. Also one of Mexico’s laws was banning slavery. This controversy regulated the unethical clash between America and Mexico. America’s motivation to invade Mexico were unforgivable because of their overall goal of achieving Manifest Destiny.
The main drive behind annexing texas was the belief system of Manifest Destiny. According to class notes, “Mexico and Texas had trouble when congress took texas as a state…”. To restate, Mexico assumed America was claiming Texas to declare war. When actually they were trying to fulfill the belief of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the belief that Americans were superior and had advanced technology that they needed to incorporate from coast to coast. Therefore, claiming Texas would piece together their belief system of Manifest Destiny. With the false thought by Mexico, it soon turned into the war between the countries. As stated in the Creating America textbook, “... Manifest Destiny...was not only good but bound to happen even if it meant pushing Mexicans and Native Americans out of the way.” To clarify, the greedy and selfish thoughts of the United State’s government were demonstrated with the overall belief system of Manifest Destiny. And with Polk’s commitment and dedication towards Manifest Destiny, kicking out Mexicans and Native Americans didn't seem to be a problem. In consequence , the unethical intentions to complete Manifest Destiny lead to the
war. Despite the fact that there is overwhelming evidence to prove that the battle between Mexico and America was invalid and unreasonable, there are those that view the war as necessary because the Mexican government was unable to cooperate with the U.S government. Mexico’s government was still raw due to being freed from Spain, and was unstable, which made the Texans uncontrolled. However, America took advantage of a weaker and not developed nation, into sneaking their way to annex Texas. If Texas wasn’t annexed by America, the spark wouldn’t of lead to bigger issues. Due to the selfish acts of the United States, the invasions of the Americans came to be. Unlawful acts included the Texas Revolution, the intentions of expanding U.S land and reaching Manifest Destiny. Given these points, the Texans deliberately disrespected Mexico’s laws and chose not to obey the rules they swore to. With Texas wanting to join the United States, congress already saw future conflict that would arise. The congress of America expanded U.S land to transform Texas into a slave state. Therefore, the only encouragement of extending the land was to achieve Manifest Destiny. In final analysis, the waging invasion by America was unwarranted and unethical, which was inspired by the greedy and selfish acts of the U.S congress. The unjustness was demonstrated by the U.S citizens that the battle was unnecessary and irrational. Modeled by the U.S citizens, they questioned why the war was needed and necessary.
James K. Polk was one of many that felt extremely strong about Texas joining the Union. Silbey uses direct quotes from politicians gives a deeper outlook into Texas annexation. “That there is a large majority who would be glad to see Texas, in some way or another, united to this country, there can be no doubt.” (Silbey 81) Shortly after this widespread idea of Texas joining the country Congress was overwhelmed with bills to make Texas’s entry accomplished.
Later they wanted to annex it but Mexico said that any attempts to annex Texas would be an act of war. The Mexican War started in 1846, when Mexicans attacked a group of United States soldiers, under the command of Zachary Taylor, in a disputed zone on the border of United States and Mexico, killing about a dozen American soldiers. President Polk told the U.S. Congress that the “cup of forbearance has been exhausted” which means the Mexicans hit the last straw and it is time for war. President Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to Nueces River vs. Rio Grande to poke the Mexicans to shoot and they did. The Mexicans have shed “American blood upon American soil.” The United States wanted war with Mexico now they have a reason to declare war ( History.com
One reason the Mexican War was justified was the United States Manifest Destiny beliefs. Evidence supporting this reason is that, according to Document A, John O'Sullivan said it was God’s choice if the United States will grow by taking or buying territory. Also, the annexation of Texas helped grow the United States which gave the
Sixteen are killed in the Mexican attack along the Rio Grande! In 1821, Mexico freed itself from Spain. Mexico is equal in size to the United States. The Mexican government wanted to increase population, so they invited Americans to settle in Texas. These settlers did not want to abide by Mexico’s rules and laws.
Through Manifest Destiny, the U.S. conquered many new territories. Ever since the U.S. became its own country, they always wanted more land. They thought that the Manifest Destiny gave them the right to expand and conquer more land. The United States were offered a deal known as the Louisiana Purchase which doubled their size. Even after they received this land, they were thirsty for more. They wanted to have Texas as their own. After Texas got their independence from Mexico, President Polk annexed it. Polk had his eye set on California next. But before he could get California, he had to deal with border dispute in Texas, leading to the war with Mexico. So, did the United States have a good reason to go to war with Mexico? The answer is simple, the U.S. was not justified into going to war with Mexico. This is proven through the Manifest Destiny, border disputes, and an American viewpoint on the war.
Southern slave owners. Citizens of the U.S. where starting to move to Texas and the Mexicans welcomed them to settle because they thought it would be a good idea (Doc D). Soon after, Mexico realized that cultural effects would become be a big factor in differences (Doc D). In Mexico slavery was illegal at the time but because it was still allowed in the U.S. the slave holders defied Mexico's laws and took there slaves with them across the Sabine river into Mexico (Doc D). Obviously Mexico didn’t enforce their anti-slavery laws (Doc D). Since Mexico didn’t enforce certain laws it made them look weak to other people, so the United States took over Texas. The citizens expected Texas to become part of the U.S. and that was finally fulfilled.
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War, the U.S.–Mexican War, the Invasion of Mexico, the U.S. Intervention, or the United States War Against Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States and the Centralist Republic of Mexico from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Riot. Through this time, supply ships from San Blas continued to be unpredictable and the missions—with their native workers—were worried to provide for the population. When the native groups began to resist the bigger demands, they were placed under firmer military control. Also, additional tribes were gathered, mixed, and combined into dense groups in order to serve the payment. Under these conditions, new diseases quickly spread and native cultures were further disrupted.
Was the War of 1812 really worth fighting? Beforehand, Britain began stopping American ships to look for British deserters, soon they began to impress American citizens on those ships. Britain decided to end the policy, unfortunately, that news never reached America in time. By the time it did America already declare war on Britain. In 1814, American and British representatives met to sign a peace agreement, The Treaty of Ghent. This treaty didn't do anything but allow peace between the two and end the war. The news of the treaty signing didn't reach the United States. One last battle took place, Battle of New Orleans. That battle leads to the American victory, leaving hundreds of British soldiers dead. The American citizens felt a new sense of respect and patriotism after the war. The War of 1812 was worth fighting forAdditionallyand it did help the young America.
It was mainly the people in the north that opposed territorial expansion. This was because northerners saw how unmoral expansion could be. They also had no need for the newly acquired lands and feared that further acquisition of land would only strengthen the west; this is why opponents of expansion got so upset when the United States considered annexing Texas. William Plumer, a Federalist, said, “Admit this western world into the union, and you destroy with a single operation the whole weight and importance of the eastern states.”(Document A). People against territorial expansion realized that by annexing Texas, the western territory would grow, have a larger population, and would t...
From the early days of pioneers and settlers, thousands of Americans began to move into what would become Texas. The Mexican government was wanting to populate the Texas area to increase the economy. For a long period of time the Mexican government had placed many laws on the territory, but none that were deeply inforced. Finally when a new dictatorship came into power, they began to enforce the laws. Slavery among other issues
Narrative History of Texas Annexation, Secession, and Readmission to the Union. Texans voted in favor of annexation to the United States in the first election following independence in 1836. However, throughout the Republic period (1836-1845) no treaty of annexation negotiated between the Republic and the United States was ratified by both nations. When all attempts to arrive at a formal annexation treaty failed, the United States Congress passed--after much debate and only a simple majority--a Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States. Under these terms, Texas would keep both its public lands and its public debt, it would have the power to divide into four additional states "of convenient size" in the future if it so desired, and it would deliver all military, postal, and customs facilities and authority to the United States government.
A Texan, William B. Travis and a small group of Texans attacked a squad of Mexican troops in Anahuac with the motive that “taxes should not thus be collected from them to support a standing army in their own country” (SOS 1) and soon drove them back. Travis retreated to San Felipe and were assisted to Bexar. Skirmishes and the threat of war with Mexico soon followed.
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.
...them, plus, the northern territories of Mexico were not populated, so it was very inviting for them. So, basically, it was the Americans invading Mexican territory and the Mexicans were just defending their selves from the invading settlers. The Mexicans were also angered by the annexation of Texas, which used to be apart of Mexican territory.
history. Polk was the president of the United States in 1845 and favored the annexation of Texas. He was interested in the fact that Texas could help with expanding the country from coast to coast, also known as Westward Expansion or Manifest Destiny. Texas also liked this idea because the U.S. could help protect Texas from Mexico