Mexican War of Independence

Justified Americans As the army knows, war is not always easy. The Americans went to war with Mexico to fight over Texas in 1846. At the time, James K. Polk was in office as president. He was a strong supporter of the Manifest Destiny. The Manifest Destiny was believed as God’s plan to extend American territory. Polk also was thinking about buying California too, but right now his mission was gaining Texas. The United States was justified in going to war with Mexico because most were…

Studies-3rd Hour America was not justified for war After becoming free from its mother country, Spain just a mere 25 years earlier, Mexico was in a brutal war with the United States. Many events led up to the war. It started off with Mexico declaring itself free from Mexico, becoming a free country. At the time, Mexico was equal to the size of the United States. Soon after Mexico became free, Texas declared independence from Mexico in 1836. Then the war took place from 1846-1848. This DBQ…

Electoral votes gave Polk the presidency. His vision was to annex Mexican territory, Texas and Oregon. Texas was a slave state and popular in the South. Northerners objected to the spread of slavery and opposed annexation. Texas was annexed at the end of 1845. Oregon was simultaneously annexed as a free country. Americans wanted all of Oregon with its northernmost boundary in Russian territory.…

Almost forty years ago, president Nixon declared drugs abuse as a threat to national security or “public enemy number 1,” launching the United States into one of the most costly “wars” its ever fought. The presence and size of federal drug enforcement were increased as long as pushing for mandatory sentencing among other striker jailing laws. When Reagan came into the office, it marked the start of ballooning rates of incarceration and costs due to the expansion of the effort to fight drugs. The…

Are we winning the War on Drugs? Most opinions are split 50/50 on this question. One thing is for certain, Mexico is the biggest exporter of drugs into the United States. This epidemic has created wide-spread problems for both countries; the Mexican drug cartel has crippled their country with violence and political corruption and it has affected the United States in a social-economic way. First, let me give some reasons and history around the U.S./Mexican “Drug War”. The two major…

The novel I read was The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea. The Devil’s Highway is a true story about Mexican immigration to the United States. It retells the devastating journey of the group of men who attempted to cross the U.S. border by entering one of the deadliest regions in Arizona known as the Devil’s Highway. There were twenty-six men who entered the region, and only twelve survived. This journey was the largest number of border-event deaths in history. Urrea introduces each…

“Mr. Polk’s War,” a war promptly named after the president at the time, James T. Polk, is an alternate moniker for the Mexican-American War for many reasons. For one, looking on the outside, the causes of the war seem to be unjust in that the Manifest Destiny, a widely supported policy by Polk, prompted America’s push West and eventual annexation of Texas from Mexico. However, on the tactical level, many commanders were entrusted with the responsibility of leading units in the fight against the…

In every novel or series, the important characters will have a rite of passage. This is an event that will mark an important time in someone’s life. In the novel No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy one of the main characters, Llewelyn Moss, experiences his rite of passage. Through his choices, mistakes and adventures within the novel Llewelyn Moss proves himself as an all American outlaw hero. One of the most important characters in No Country for Old Men is Llewelyn Moss. Moss is a…

on California. Congress finally voted to annex Texas before he took office. Polk was delighted. On May 9, 1846, Mexican soldiers fired upon Americans on the “Texas side” of the Rio Grande, the area claimed by the United States. That action gave President Polk a justification for going to war with Mexico. Should the United States have gone to War with Mexico? The Americans going to war was justified for several reasons: Americans were fired upon first by Mexico, Mexico’s government was too weak…

Exactly, who is El Chapo? Why is his name provoking fear and admiration in Mexico? Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, or known as “El Chapo (Shorty) Guzmán” for his 5 feet 6 inches stature, despite not being well-known by most Americans, is the head of the El Chapo Sinaloa Cartel, currently the biggest drug empire in the history. Over the years, he has built a corporate that makes him billions of dollars from selling synthetic drugs such as: marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine. In fact…