Settlers And Mexican Settlers Conflict Analysis

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In our conflict between the Mexicans and the Settlers, neither side was right on who owned the land. The Mexicans believed that the border of their country and the U.S. was the Nueces River. But, the U.S. believed that it was the Rio Grande. Both of them were fighting for extra land by marking where the border should be. But neither side was right, as both the Mexicans and American settlers had taken the land from the Native Americans without their consent. So they were both fighting for land that none of them owned. They ignored the Native Americans and fought among themselves for land that didn’t even belong to them. The land in the middle of the two rivers belonged to the Native Americans as they were the first to settle there. Some might

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