Mexican War of Independence

was justified in going to war with Mexico because of many reasons. An interesting fact is that some religious people thought it was God’s plan that the US needed to go to war with Mexico. Another interesting fact is that James K. Polk asked the Senate and the House of Representatives to go to war with Mexico. The United States was justified in going to war with Mexico because of manifest destiny, a growing population, and the border problems. The war started in 1846. The war started because of…

Tensions built up between the United States and Mexico, ultimately causing war between the countries. Beforehand, Mexico declared independence from Spain in 1821, and Texas declared Independence from Mexico in 1836. After nine years of it being an independent nation, in 1846 the United States annexed Texas, angering Mexico who didn’t recognize Texas as its own nation. In 1846, did the United States have a fair reason for going to war with Mexico? It was in fact fair because it was important for…

hello to the beginning of the Mexican-American War. President James K. Polk was a firm believer of Manifest Destiny. He was willing to do whatever it took to expand American power across the continent all the way to the Pacific Ocean. It all started in 1836 when Texas gained its independence from Mexico. At first, the US didn’t want Texas to join the union, mostly because the northern states didn’t want to add another slave state. History.com states that “The Mexican government was also…

technically, they were just there to find out if they are justified in going to war. So was the United States justified in going to war with Mexico? Well the US was justified in going to war with Mexico because Mexicans attacked US troops on Texas soil, they need to get more land for Manifest Destiny, and America needed to prove to Mexico that they did not steal Texas. The United States went to war with Mexico in 1846.the war took place on disputed land between US and Mexico. On January 4 1845,…

The Mexican War from 1846 to 1868 was the first war that the Americans fought on the foreign soil. The expansionist-minded President James A. Polk believed that the United States had a “manifest destiny,” a God-given right to occupy the land across the west to the Pacific Ocean. He believed that the land from Texas to California should be part of the U.S. territory. [1] It was also his strong belief that the Americans could better manage the lands and the continent than the native Indians as…

There are many reasons for why America was justified in going to war with Mexico. The Manifest Destiny stated that the U.S. should own all territory between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which also meant that the expansion of the U.S. was inevitable and justified. Since Polk was also a very strong believer in the Manifest Destiny, it meant he would fight for the land the U.S. deserved. “Although the United States had no shortage of unoccupied lands, expansionists argued that the republic must…

O’Sullivan begins by declaring that Texas belongs to America. Texas is no longer a mere plot of land; it is American (O’Sullivan 1). He goes on to explain the process of obtaining Texas with facts about the Mexican revolution/resistance (O’Sullivan 2). The author shows how the independence of Texas was unquestionable through objective facts. It is difficult to deny and oppose…

got into war with Mexico in 1846 because they wanted more land such as Texas and California. Keeping this in mind we can infer that the US wasn’t justified to go to war with them. This is considering that Mexico didn’t see the treaty about Texas’s annexation as admissible but more of a threat, the U.S was already stealing land that wasn’t even theirs, and…

“American blood on American soil”, said President Polk when he appeared before congress and this was the start of the Mexican-American war according to the US history books. There are many different stories on why the war started but in the United States the story states that the Mexicans are the people to blame and hence the name: the Mexican-American War. Before this war had begun Americans forget that there was natives who first lived the lands they took over. This means that those people…

The Battle of Palo Alto took place on May 8, 1846 and lasted only 3 hours. The battle is marked as the first major engagement between Mexico and America during the Mexican-American war even though the battle took place days before America declared war on Mexico. The battle was short lived, proving the American artillery tactics and armament far superior to that of Mexico. The number of casualties Mexico took during this short battle was more than double that of America. Zachary Taylor, an…