Going To War With Mexico Dbq Research Paper

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Have you ever been in a dispute with a sibling over what's theirs and what's yours? For example, a t-shirt, you decide that it’s yours but your brother is equally as confident about it being theirs. It’s back-and-forth until your brother takes the shirt for himself. Mexico was placed in a similar situation with the U.S. over a piece of land apart of what is today known as Texas. The U.S. wasn’t justified in going to war with Mexico because Mexico was just trying to protect their land, the U.S. was promoting slavery in Mexico, and the U.S.’s reasoning for taking the disputed land was the belief that it was part of God’s plan.

The first reason that helps support my claim is that Mexico was trying to protect its land. Document C states in paragraph
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going to war with Mexico was unjustified relates to the U.S. promoting slavery in Mexico. Document D states “A current of emigration. from the United States. Slaveholders crossed the Sabine. with their slaves, in defiance of the Mexican ordinance of freedom.” Furthermore, Document D also states “the Spanish Crown. decreed the abolition of human slavery.” This shows that the U.S. had no care for the laws of Mexico and went against them despite it being illegal to own a slave. This was unjust for the U.S. to promote slavery in a place in which it is banned all the while supporting my reasoning. If the U.S. breaking the law wasn’t bad enough, my next reason for why they fought with Mexico isn’t that great either. My final reason for why I believe that the U.S. was unjust in the decision to go to war with Mexico is believing God is their reason for taking the disputed land. In Document A it is stated that it was their “...destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence [God]...” The reasoning for their stealing of the disputed land was terrible, how would the U.S. know what God wanted them to do? The robbery of the disputed land was just a made-up reason to protect the U.S. Now, although it may seem that the U.S. is the villain here, there may be some proof that can redeem

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