The Mexico-American War

“The United States had emerged as a modern capitalist nation, and the spirit of nationalism in the country was strong and growing” (Henderson 71). As tensions grew between the Unites States and Mexico, there was a thirst for war. The Unites States declared war with Mexico, because they owned land that Americans desired, resulting in America’s fulfillment of achieving their philosophy of “Manifest Destiny”. The blood boil of both countries caused a lot of bloodshed. The dispute lasted for a long two year battle which was for huge amounts of land. The Americans were victorious and claimed new territories from the conflict.

Starting in 1845 and concluding in 1850 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was the era where the Mexican war occurred. This war had triggers with disagreements on the ideal of Manifest Destiny and major actions by President Polk that led the United States into attempting to annex Texas. Texas at that time was independent and was not part of Mexico nor America. Mexico wanted Texas to stay neutral that they threatened a war to the United States if they tried anything to attempt anything. Unfortunately, the United States did not really care by going forward with the annexation and land conquering, sparking a war with Mexico. So the Mexican war began and nothing was ever the same.

The Mexican American war did indeed allow us to complete Manifest Destiny, because off all the states that was annexed when Mexico lost the war. The Mexican American war was the final little push to help us achieve that move west. The move west and south was not an easy one, since there were a lot of people opposing it, and different debates that were held on slavery which grew much tension. Onto the move to the west and the annexation of the Mexican land the President Polk had much backlash for much that he did involving Mexico.

Since the formation of the United States, war has been a constant factor within the political sphere. From these wars the U.S obtained power, land, and status unseen and unparalleled by any civilization in humankind. One of the earliest wars that allowed the United States to grow into the global power it is today was the Mexican-American war. This war not only shaped American politics for decades, but also fueled the sectional crisis that culminated into the infamous Civil War. Being the new country’s first armed conflict fought mainly on foreign soil, the war itself had several diplomatic implications that haunted politics for years to come. However, the war itself was fought for several political, social, and economic reasons and can be attributed with shaping the essence of American culture forever.

The Mexican-American was very important to our country. We not only annexed Texas but, gained other states what is now modern day California, Utah, and Nevada. Mexico also obtains from the war which was debt relief. This paper explains how America and Mexico went from enemies to allies.

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

The Mexican war was a turning point for the struggling colonies and it showed what extent we were willing to go to get what we wanted so to speak. The war could have been completely avoided had we, the Americans, not started the conflict. At first, it all started with Moses Austin’s proposition to bring in colonists to the large state of Texas. The Mexican government only gave him permission in the first place because they thought it would “provide a buffer against illegal U.S. settlers, who were creating problems in east Texas” and it was in part to “help develop the land, since only 3,500 native Mexicans had settled in Texas” (The Texas Revolution). However, over the years, the American population residing in Texas started to double and soon formed a “4-to-1 majority” over the Hispanics. Later on there would be conflict involving the

The Mexican-American War was a gruesome and bloody battle involving the two major powers between the Americans and the Mexicans. The first major power was the annexation of Texas and the second power is the protection along with the acquisition of the territory. States provinces such as California, Texas and New Mexico is inherited by Mexico from Spain. Mexico government was weakened and practically bankrupt after the war and was unable to take control of their territories.

The Mexican-American War was a result from the rising conflict between Mexico and the United States on who has the rights for Texas after Texas gained its independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836. Before Texas annexed with the United States on December 29, 1845, it was an independent state with 9 years of being free from Mexico . Although Mexico never acknowledged Texas to secede from them, the Texans and the United States did so the U.S. decided to add Texas as the 28th state. After Texas gained its independence from Mexico, Mexico still believed Texas was a part of them but the United States proceeded to annex Texas because Texas was already independent. As a result, this caused conflict with the United States and Mexico, which led to the Mexican-American.

The Civil War was caused by many several pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences, and was finally set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events. From economic differences to political differences all the way up to cultural differences, the North and the South opposed each other. These tensions were further increased after the western expansion of the United States. By the early 1850’s a civil war was known to be likely coming soon.

The Mexican War was big war about territory and could've been avoided, but instead the U.S. and Mexico fought in the war. The Mexican War was started by Mexico. They started it because they would not negotiate with the U.S. about the territory of Texas. Mexico wouldn’t talk with the U.S. because they thought that Texas belonged to them instead the U.S. America disagreed with that because the president named Santa Anna signed a treaty saying that Texas belonged to the U.S. Another reason why Mexico started the war is because they entered territory and killed Americans on American soil. American troops went to the Rio Grande to defend Texas and was ambushed by Mexico. On the Mexican’s point of view, they thought that the troops entered Mexican

The American-Mexican war of 1846 may have come and gone, it did have some after effect on the parties involved. In the aftermath of the war, fifteen young Mexican men, who had participated in the war and lived to tell it shared their experience. These group of young Mexicans came together to write a book called “Apuntes”; the book talks about the effects the war had on both countries and lessons learnt. In their analysis of the war, they argue that although the war had its fallout on both countries, the consequences were both long and short term. In the case of a short term, the Americans were able to quickly acquire the territory they fought for, although this acquisition would later be the basis for another deadly and costly war- the Civil War. On the other hand, the Mexicans may have lost the war and their original territory, but the war thought them how to possess their new found land and strengthen their country. However, the Mexicans felt sorrowful that their land was invaded and their

Imagine this: You go into your room and you see your sister or brother messing up your room. You eventually get frustrated and “boom!” That’s basically the same concept as when Native Americans got kicked out of their land. Now, the west was a very popular section of the globe. Everyone desired to get there because of the valuable land that was there and success, which people referred to the “Gold Fever.” Many people died while traveling to the West because of how far they had to go from the East or North and because their supplies didn’t last long. But, the settlers in the West disliked the idea and rebelled against it. A few occurrences when societies impact are appeared through the California Gold Rush, the battle between Native American

The Mexican-American war began in the spring of 1846 and quickly engulfed the American people and generated many different opinions and interests. The war took over almost all popular culture, arts, literature, and the press. The outpouring of ideas about this war spurred patriotism all across the country, which

The War with Mexico was not as bad. The war was only consisted of the two states Mexico and Texas. In 1803, Louisiana Purchase was created at this year before the war had occurred. After the Louisiana Purchase, in 1836, Texas declares its independence from Mexico. Texas was a country that had once belonged to Mexico. Texas wanted to become a state of their own. They had created a state of their own to have their own religious beliefs. They moved out of Mexico because Mexico was Catholic, which meant anti-slavery. They moved out of Texas because they did not like the fact that they can not have slavery. This is why Texas moved out of Mexico. After Texas had declared, at the year of 1840, the first baseball diamond was laid out in Cooperstown, New York. Many people now enjoy baseball. Manifest Destiny was believed to be a plan created by God that America was to extend its territory all the way to the Pacific Ocean. The Alamo was a battleground that the people of Texas and Mexico had fought on for their own freedom.