The United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico. The United States did not have any type of real justification to answer back with violence against the Mexicans. The war with Mexico was a result of the United States’ idea of manifest destiny. Polk’s thirst to take hold of new territory from the Mexicans and defeat over their refusal to give America California also might have played a roll in his eagerness to start a war against the Mexicans. The United States under the command of the president at that time enraged Mexico into attacking US troops. All of these reasons show that the US had no business starting a war with Mexico for territory that was justly the Mexicans. The war with Mexico came at a time when much of the
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He took Texas but also California and Oregon. While trying to get California through peaceful things he sent John Slidell to Mexico City to offer the Mexicans alot of money for California yet this offer was rejected by the Mexicans as an insult. This led Polk to be irritated and made him willing to try to get the Mexicans to give him the territories that he desired using sneaky methods. This showed that Polk was very greedy for new territory. He no longer cared how he claimed his new territory. Polk was obsessed with a need to make his campaign promises real and to make the idea of manifest destiny real. His greed for land was very notacible in his behind the back methods that he attempted to use against the Mexicans. Polk was so greedy for land that he was willing to risk blood shed and death of his citizens for revenge against the rejection of a supposed treaty and his want for manifest destiny. Possibly the strongest of all reasons that the US was unjust in going to war with Mexico, was that the US forces were in the territory to purposely annoy the Mexicans into starting the conflict so the US would look like they were the good guys in the incident. The US troops were commanded to cross over the Nueces river to the banks of the Rio Grande. This was a move to get the Mexicans to attack US troops on land that was claimed by both countries. This plan did not work out as thought to have because the Mexicans wouldn’t attack. This caused Polk to worry so he told congress that he wanted them to declare war on Mexico on the terms that one: unpaid claims and two: Slidell’s rejection. These reasons were tiny at best. But Polk was lucky because word of the blood shed he had been waiting for arrived that evening. Soon the declaration of war was passed. Yet this provoked attack was unjust and should have been seen as such by the US congress. i think this was clearly an act of
He took Texas but also California and Oregon. While trying to get California through peaceful things he sent John Slidell to Mexico City to offer the Mexicans alot of money for California yet this offer was rejected by the Mexicans as an insult. This led Polk to be irritated and made him willing to try to get the Mexicans to give him the territories that he desired using sneaky methods. This showed that Polk was very greedy for new territory. He no longer cared how he claimed his new territory. Polk was obsessed with a need to make his campaign promises real and to make the idea of manifest destiny real. His greed for land was very notacible in his behind the back methods that he attempted to use against the Mexicans. Polk was so greedy for land that he was willing to risk blood shed and death of his citizens for revenge against the rejection of a supposed treaty and his want for manifest destiny. Possibly the strongest of all reasons that the US was unjust in going to war with Mexico, was that the US forces were in the territory to purposely annoy the Mexicans into starting the conflict so the US would look like they were the good guys in the incident. The US troops were commanded to cross over the Nueces river to the banks of the Rio Grande. This was a move to get the Mexicans to attack US troops on land that was claimed by both countries. This plan did not work out as thought to have because the Mexicans wouldn’t attack. This caused Polk to worry so he told congress that he wanted them to declare war on Mexico on the terms that one: unpaid claims and two: Slidell’s rejection. These reasons were tiny at best. But Polk was lucky because word of the blood shed he had been waiting for arrived that evening. Soon the declaration of war was passed. Yet this provoked attack was unjust and should have been seen as such by the US congress. i think this was clearly an act of