Essay On Mexican War

Justified or Not Justified: The Mexican War “The most dramatic event in the history of relations between Mexico and the United States took place a century and a half ago” (Velasco-Marquez, 327) The Mexican War took place in 1856, not too long after the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. In 1844, Texas was annexed into the United States just as President Polk was coming into office. This eventually lead to the Mexican War, a war that happened because the U.S. and Mexico couldn’t agree on the boundary line. The question many people are asking themselves today is, was there enough good reasons for the United States to go to war with Mexico? The United States was justified in going to war with Mexico, because Texas wanted to join us, Mexico wasn’t even using the land, and the U.S. felt threatened by the growing Mexico. One reason the U.S. was justified in going to war was Texas was its own country that wanted to join the U.S. and Mexico had no right to stop that from happening. During the Battle of San Jacinto that followed the defeat at the Alamo, Texas’s independence was won from Mexico. “Following bloody encounters at places like the Alamo, the texans won their …show more content…
was justified in going to war with Mexico, there were reasons they weren’t justified. President Polk believed in manifest destiny and was, in fact, looking to start a fight if that's what was needed to fulfill that dream. “Polk was a strong supporter of Manifest Destiny… President Polk had a reason for going to war” (Roden, 317). Texas, however, didn’t belong to Mexico and the war had started because Texas was annexed into the United States. Manifest Destiny may have been a selfish and childish dream but Mexico wasn’t the best qualified in taking care of the land in the first place and would have eventually lost it anyways. “Mexico never can exert any real government authority over such a country… The Anglo-Saxon foot is already on [California’s] borders…” (O’Sullivan,