If I Were An American Citizen Essay

If I were an American citizen in 1845-46, following the events leading up to the war with Mexico, examples of stories that I would probably see on newspapers would be such things as the problems that had been going on between the U.S. and Mexico. We would also probably see the attack the Mexico made on U.S. soldiers, and how the 49th parallel was quickly set in place after having passed the Oregon Treaty. There would also be propaganda, which would obviously be biased depending on which side the propaganda was coming from.

The arguments that were put against the war from the Americans, was that they believed that the idea of taking such a dispute into a full-on war was unconstitutional. Such a problem could have easily been resolved if it was to have been taken as a diplomatic issue rather than as what Mexico saw this action. Mexico believed that the U.S. was taking away their lands, thus resulting in war due to the fact that they had to protect their lands. People did not agree with this war because although Texas would be admitted to the Union, it would be admitted as a slave state, and their was really no good in that, besides the fact …show more content…
If we were looking at this in means of the U.S. only trying to expand their territories in a way to welcome new people who were making their way the U.S., the war could be justified. If we were looking at this in an abolitionists perspective, it would obviously seem as thought the U.S. was expanding their lands only to add more slave states to the U.S. The U.S. justified their actions through the Manifest Destiny, the reason I believe that the war could be justified through this was because of the fact that the U.S. stayed true to themselves and took the actions that they believed in. Although war could have been avoided, the U.S. did what they had to due to gain territory for themselves and the well being of the economy and the country as a