Manifest Destiny In The United States

In 1846 throughout 1848, a war to conquer land from Mexico were orders held by James K. Polk. An unjust war is about to occur, In 1846 Texas becomes Independent from Mexico and the United States. To begin with, Mexico approves for the Americans to settle onto Texas with one condition to not bring slaves along with them. During this time period, slavery was one of the most important political concerns and they opposed slavery. The Americans didn’t hold the values of anti-slavery, during this time they valued Manifest Density strongly. Accepting some restrictions from Mexico placed was nothing compared to its own destiny to occur from preventing America to stretch outward towards the Pacific Ocean. The main conflict started with the annexation of Texas, a dispute on the nation’s border, the Mexicans consider the Nueces river to be the border of Texas as for Americans that wasn’t enough land so they consider, Rio Grande the border. A way to aim to

So the American’s stole the land from Mexico to get to the coast.”America wanted to extend their country all the way to the west”(background essay 317). This quote shows that America did want to spread to the West because of Manifest Destiny. “The texas wanted to have slaves but they didn’t want to be catholic”(doc A 323 john). This Information shows that the Americans ignored the mexicans and didn’t respect their laws. “Manifest Destiny is to overspread the continent”(roden 323). This shows that Americans would do anything in their way. This evidence shows shows the U.S was not justified into going to war with Mexico and it was not a good enough reason to do so. The Americans don’t have a good enough reason into go to war with Mexico because it was there land and they can’t just take and call it theirs. Manifest destiny doesn’t mean you have to go to

The Mexican-American War was a result of Manifest Destiny.  Manifest Destiny was a belief that Americans had a god given right to expand their border all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Not only did Americans believe that they also had a right to the land, but they also believed that they had a moral duty to civilize its occupants, which included Native Americans, Mexicans, and Spanish speaking Catholics. According to Britannica, the Mexican-American War originated from the United States annexation of Texas in 1845. Texas had been in a border dispute with Mexico at the time of the annexation  therefore, the conflict transferred to the U.S. Mexico claimed that the border ended at the Nueces River, and the United States claimed it ended at the Rio Grande River.

The Mexican War of 1846-1848 was one of major importance to U.S. history, but has since fallen into annals of obscurity. It was the nation’s first war fought on foreign soil: a war that advocated the concept of “manifest destiny”, the United States God-given right to claim territory for the establishment of a free democratic society (Stevenson 2009). Even though many historians claim the war was forced on Mexico by slaveholders greedy for new territory, President John Polk viewed the war as an opportunity to defend the annexation of Texas, establish the Rio Grande as its border, and to acquire the Mexican territories of California and New Mexico (Stevenson 2009).

Mexico did have the power to govern more territory and had fair laws and a treaty with America. “The annexation of Texas was inadmissible for for both legal and security reasons”(Doc C, Par1).“They already had the Anglo Saxon foot on the borders of California which Mexico had been to before.” With California America’s possession, they did not need more of Mexico’s land(Doc A, Par3). With that in place, Ignoring the governmental power of Mexico was wrong considering they had seize of California. Mexico had been disrespected at both rightful land masses. America's actions to seize

Mexico had just become a country, still weak from its fight for independence from Spain and not strong enough to have a solidified government and America took advantage of this. In Document E a Mexican official talks about the “the most scandalous violation of the rights of a nation” when referring to the annexation of Texas, this shows that Mexico saw what the US was doing as unjust. The ambition of the country and its pioneers blinded itself to the inequity of its actions. Document E also states that “conquest has always been a crime against humanity” and that the United States has begun to practice this, taking advantage of Mexico’s friendly relations which was based upon treaties and promises. It said that America did not take the treaties seriously and was only looking to gain possession in the middle of peace. While Mexico was treated unfairly during Manifest Destiny another party was being pushed away to make way for the ‘American way of

Mexico and the United States have a rough history, as tension from the U.S. annexing Texas strained their relationship. The U.S. and Mexico couldn’t agree on a border, the U.S. believing it was the Rio Grande and Mexico believing they had all the land to the Nueces River. The remaining land in between was called undisputed land, or territory both countries shared. On May 9, 1846, Mexican soldiers shot a group of Americans patrolling the Rio Grande, inducing one of the more arguable wars, The Mexican War. In Mexico, this war is referred to as “The U.S. Invasion”, but in reality, both sides were in the wrong.

The U.S.-Mexican War was a violent and shattering event for Mexican citizens that lasted from 1846-1848 in what is now the state of Texas. It drastically altered the course of Mexican and American history for years to come. It occurred because of the unsettled disputes about the borders of newly annexed Texas. Once the debilitating battle ended, the United States emerged a world power having acquired more than 500,000 square miles of valuable territory. There are many potentially feasible explanations on the cause of the war; including, fault laying with American slaveholders for conquest of Mexico, the war as an American plot and responsibility lying with President Polk of the United States. However, this paper focuses on the three

The Mexican-American War was provoked by America’s crave for land. At the time, this idea was called Manifest Destiny, a term coined by John S. Sullivan. As more

Manifest destiny is one of the beliefs that existed in the United States. The latter stated belief claimed that, the settlers based in America were allowed to spread all over the continent. However, historians came into an agreement that three themes exist in relation to manifest destiny, and this include: the America’s special virtue and their institutions; America’s mission that aimed at redeeming and rebuilding the western part as per the agrarian America, and a destiny that will enhance the accomplishment of necessary duties.

First, the land was in dispute. Most would say that would mean no one had official rights to it until an agreement was reached between the parties. The U.S., however, treated the land as if Mexico had given up the land, even daring to say, "The country between that river and the Del Norte...is now included within one of our congressional districts" as said in the War Message of President James Polk

With the end of the Mexican war, the United States seized a tremendous amount of land from Mexico, about one third of the country, half a million square miles to be exact. The hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and Indians who continued to live there became strangers in their own homes. This take over of land and the spirit of manifest destiny intensified the political conflict of slavery. Taking over this land intensified racism as some viewed this as signifying the superiority of the “Anglo-Saxon race.” This new idea proved to be detrimental to race relations in these new territories. When these territories still belonged to Mexico, slavery was illegal and Mexicans, Indians and blacks were all equal. When the territory of Texas, once a part

Apparently, the belief of Manifest Destiny was stronger than any of the doubts they had before including uneven slave states. Finally, in 1845, Texas was officially annexed into the U.S. However, Mexico refused to believe that Texas was an independent nation, or that it had joined the U.S. They only though of Texas as a rebellious territory. They thought that by annexing Texas, the U.S was taunting them into war.

The president at the time, James Polk, believed in Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the reason why many Americans thought it was ok to take Mexico's land] The United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico because Mexico was just protecting their land since in their eyes they believed it was their land. The United States had also only wanted Mexico for wealth and for spreading slavery.

A second reason the Mexican War was justified is that the US already had struck claims onto Californian lands. Once again according to Sullivan he states that, “the Anglo-Saxon foot is already on [California’s] borders…” and “Mexico never can exert any real governmental authority over such a country.” This evidence expresses that the US was justified in going to war with Mexico because the US settlers were already on Californian lands and had claimed it as their own Mexico could not extend any real authority over it to take control.