Causes Of The Mexican-American War

During the time period of 1846-1848, Mexico and United States had a conflict between each other on foreign soil. “On April 25, 1846, Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers. Mexico passed the boundary of the United States, invaded their territory, and shed American blood upon American soil.” This means Mexico started the conflict between United States by violating their territory. Additionally, on “May 13, Congress declared war” This means that Congress decided to declare war because Mexico started to attack U.S and Congress knew that U.S will attack back and so they just declared war. Also, Mexico has lost half of their territory. In 1836, Texas has gained their independence from Mexico. Also, the Mexican government was also encouraging border raids and warning that any attempt at annexation would lead to war. “It was a battle for land where Mexico was fighting to keep what they thought was their property and the U.S. desired to retain the disputed land of Texas and obtain more of Mexico’s northern lands.” This means that the conflict between Mexico and US has happen because of land. …show more content…
“But, it was necessary to fight at all for the desired territory? Since its independence, the U.S. had developed a flexible, effective procedure for gradually acquiring territory with a minimum of risk”. This means they are fighting for territory. Additionally, they are fighting for their