What Is Mexico Right Or Wrong?

The Mexican-American War was incorrectly named; it was not simply Americans vs Mexicans, but a war between opinions. America’s war with Mexico: a war for land, for the sake of Manifest Destiny, or perhaps, a war to be started and ended in victory by… a thief. This war was supported and criticized by Americans and Mexicans alike. Manifest Destiny was a belief that it was God’s Plan to for America to expand to the Pacific Ocean, and a very controversial belief, at that. Before this war of opinions, the US already created a tense relationship with its neighbor by providing aid to the Texas Rebellion, and later annexing Texas. The United States was not Justified in going to war with Mexico because Texas was signed over, with no extra land, America was obviously itching to go to war, and settlers agreed to become Mexican citizens in the first place

The American and Mexico war had an effect on many people all around the world. Many people also stole things and killed each other just so they can live and be free. The war between America and Mexico had many conflict between each other. Many amount of lives was lost, and half of Mexico’s territory was lost. Not so many good things happened, like many tensions had emerged between Mexico and America. The U.S was more unjustified than justified for many different reasons. Although the United States war against Mexico resulted in the gaining of America’s most valuable land, the war itself was unjust because they wanted to protect the citizens, U.S wanted to expand slavery, and sent soldiers to their land which they thought was going to be a good idea.

The United States was not justified in going to war with mexico because of the disobedience of Mexico’s freedom ordinance, an international belief of manifest destiny, and a dispute of territorial borders.

“At this period, citizens of the United States had already begun to into Texas... That deal was... That this extensive prevent to become a part of the United States…” (Doc D ,Charles Sumner This evidence Demonstrate that America was not justified in going to war with Mexico because all they wanted to do was to get their lands. “A current of emigration soon followed from the United States favorite. Slaveholders cross the Sabine with their slaves, In defiance of the Mexican ordinance of freedom” Doc D,Charles Sumner. This mean that America was All About Us Us expanding slavery into stole a land and was not justified into going in with

The Mexican-American War was a huge turning point for the future United States. The Mexican-American War was about United States wanting to fulfill their manifest destiny by having their land stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. So was it justified to take Mexico lands? The United states was justified in going to war with Mexico because we had rights and We would gain more land. Mexico might have been ‘dumb and distracted’, but they still should have some land for themselves.

The war the war was intense, but some of the soldiers wondered if the this war was justified to start. Many lives were lost during this terrible war. United Mexican States lost lots of it’s land and many soldiers died. This most likely weakened Mexico even more. The big question is was the United States justified in going to war with Mexico? There are many reasons going both ways, but there are some big reasons the us shouldn’t have gone to war. Some of the reasons are Mexico was still weak from winning their independence, Mexico never declared Texas entirely free, and the U.S. could try to work out a deal with Mexico to buy the land.

If you looked at a map of North America in the 1820's the countries would look a lot different. Mexico was as large as the United States, stretching from Guatemala in the south to Oregon in the north. The US was much smaller, but not for long. The Mexican War, or the "U.S. Invasion" (according to the Mexicans) started in 1846 and ended in 1848. In that short time the US gained a large chunk of territory including Texas and California and Mexico lost more than half of their land. Many Americans and Mexicans died fighting in the war but was this war justified ? I think that the Mexican war was not justified but provoked by the United States. The reasons why I think this is that Americans living in Texas violated the rules that Mexico had

One reason the Mexican War was unjustified was because the US broke their laws. A way we broke their laws were by bringing slaves across though they did not allow it. “Slaveholders crossed the Sabine[river between Louisiana and Texas] with their slaves, in defiance of the Mexican ordinance of freedom.”{Doc.D Paragraph 3} Though Mexico had abolished slaves we ignored them and brought them with us anyway. "...Mexico decreed the abolition of human slavery…”{Doc. D Paragraph 1} This evidence shows the US was unjustified in going to war because the US has gone too far with trying to show Mexico with who deserved the land. Though we want the disputed territory to enlarge our nation we do not deserve the land because we broke laws. Mexico only wanted the land to make up for land they had lost early on.

“Restless spirits, discontented at home… joined them… the work of rebellion sped.” (Sumner 329) It shows they rebelled. “But now,... Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.” (Polk 325) The Americans made claims that were false. The land between the Rio Del Norte is the American border. (Polk 325) Not their official land. Mexicans passed the border. (Pole 325) Mexico did nothing wrong. The Americans were not justified because they broke Mexico’s rules. They broke too many rules to be justified in a war that could have been easily

One reason that the Mexican-American war was not justified is that the Americans took land from Mexico. The annexation of Texas is an example of America taking land, stated in Document C. That was very wrong of the U.S to do at the time due to security and legal reasons for Mexico. Then Americans tried to take more land from Mexico by sending troops to near the Rio Grande River. As a security measure, the Mexicans decided to attack the American soldiers, killing 16 of the Americans. This shows that Americans were not justified for going to war with Mexico because Americans decided to send soldiers to invade the undisputed part of land between Texas and Mexico.

Right after the battle of the alamo when, americans won their Independence and won Texas over, still Americans were looking for more land to concur. In 1848 there was fighting near the Rio de Norte near the north bank. On that day 16 americans out of 70 died in that battle, but for the mexicans the number of deaths are unknown. Was the United States Justified in going to war with mexico. The United States had no reason in going to with mexico because the americans were stealing from mexico, and that president Polk was trying to take over california which was still owned by mexicans. This was why Americans went to war with mexico.

My first reason of why they did not have proper reasoning into going to war with Mexico is that they stole land from them. John L. O`Sullivan quotes, “California, will, probably, next, fall away from Mexico.”(Doc.A) Charlie Summer, Massachusetts state legislature, also quotes,”At this period,citizens of the U.S. had already begun to[move] into Texas. The idea was, that this extensive province ought to become a part of the United States.”(Doc.D). The evidence that I have found for this argument shows the

America was justified in going to war with Mexico because, our Manifest Destiny, Mexico let us into their territory, and because of the 16 lives that were taken on our own soil. Mexico was being a little child, holding grudges on the U.S. for “taking” Texas. Texas was not theirs to take so we had to defend it. It is important that the U.S. went to war today for many reasons. One is that we might not have half of America. Another is that Mexico could have killed more innocent lives, and tried to take more

In 1846 America had taken more than a million square miles from the newly independent Mexican Republic because of what they called Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the thought that Americans had the right and duty to expand their territory across North America. The U.S. was not justified in going to war with Mexico. reason: One reason was that President James K. Polk was provoking Mexico to go to war with America. Document D is about Joshua Giddings announcing a speech in the House of Representatives on May 23, 1846.

When something or someone gets misused or treated wrong, a strong solution is to fight back. In 1846 a war between Mexico and America had started being named the Mexican American War. Before the war Mexico had owned the province of Texas, and this was meant to include Americans to join them. That was not a good idea, because Mexico and America had different beliefs. Texas did not approve of their beliefs and tried to leave them, but matters only got worse. At this time Mexico and America were about the same size, and Mexico wanted to keep growing after freedom from Spain. Texas is angry and the United States wants to go to war with Mexico. The United States was justified in going to war with Mexico because of Mexico’s bad government, that Mexico invaded and shot the US, and because everyone wants to go to war!