Mexican Texas

the southern states of Texas. Texas has long since been a state known for its diversity,…

The idea that one must conform within one culture presents the disenfranchisement of a bordering individual, limiting them to adequately identify themselves as a whole. The Alamo represents the clashing and complimenting of American and Mexican cultures, constituting identity as flexible and more fluid. Examining the intersection of the differing cultures, and the difficulties faced when trying to navigate or negotiate their border identity. It presents a struggle that at once questions, alters,…

stereotypical millennial and the stereotypes surrounding Texas. Millennials are more liberal, artsy, young, hipster, nonreligious, and open to change, whereas Texas is stereotyped as old, southern, conservative, dogmatic, traditionalist, and pious protestant christian. So, why would a millennial think anything remotely related to Texas, let alone a Texas city, would be cool? Well, Austin, Tx is like a rebellious preacher's daughter of Texas, and it exemplifies a lot of traits similar to that of…

Guadalupe County Report Guadalupe County is the county that is the subject of my report. Texas gained independence from Mexico in 1836 then Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845. The Republic of Texas organized Guadalupe County as a judicial county in 1842, but discontinued it later that year when the Texas Supreme Court declared judicial counties to be unconstitutional. In March 1846 after the annexation, the legislature established Guadalupe County from parts of other counties.…

The mexican war started in 1945 when the annexation of Texas took place. After the annexation , Mexico and America had a disagreement on what the border of Texas was. The U.S. thought that the border was the Rio Grande , while Mexico thought it was the Nueces River. This quarrel then led to the war , the prize being the land. The United States was justified in going to war with Mexico because America believed in manifest destiny and that God gave them the land to overspread and also because 16…

HISTORY AND OUTCOME In 1846 near a border traced by a river, two neighbors went to war. The fighting between the United States and Mexico, began near the Rio Grande and raged deep into the heart of the Mexican nation. From the shores of the pacific to the Gulf Coast of Veracruz. Mexico’s regular Army was three times as large as that of the United States, but the ranks where filled with inexperienced troops. The American troops near the border where commanded by a 61 year old named General…

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…

early 1800’s. Manifest destiny made the treaty come true, and the treaty came true because of the Mexican American war, which was all started because of manifest destiny. The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the fulfilling of manifest destiny is an exchange, because US got NM, Arizona, Colorado, California, part of Nevada, and more. Most of the west was handed to them when the US…

to the annexation of Texas, Oregon Country, Mexico, and Gadsen Purchase all played a significant role in creating the U.S as we see it today. Texas had once been occupied by American settlers who desired to develop plantations. The settlers had wanted to seek permission for Mexico to be admitted( into the Mexican nation as an independent state. However, The Native Mexicans refused and, consequently one of the most famous battles occurred, Santa Anna's attack on the Alamo. Texas declared that it…

treaty to be dissatisfying (Treaty). Soon Mexico offered Polk the came into a thorough agreement. Now a third of what was Mexico belonged to the American empire. This included California, New Mexico and boundaries of Texas (Treaty). The map below shows the aftermath of the Mexican American war. It shows the territories gained by the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Marshall was the man who first discovered gold in California (Marshall). “Suddenly his attention was……