Mexican War of Independence

“control of the island to its people.” This meant that the U.S. would help Cuba get their independence, and we would remove all of our troops out of their country. Once again, McKinley feared falling behind the other imperialising European nations, yet, he still chose not to annex Cuba, showing the first signs of self-interest being replaced by idealism. As promised in the Teller Amendment, Cuba gained its independence, becoming the Republic of Cuba, in 1902. Shortly after, the Platt Amendment…

What if General Washing ton had been killed in battle during the American Revolution? What if the North had lost the Civil War to the South? To think about these occurrences, you have to imagine the unimaginable. What would the world look like without America? The United States has been even nicknames from its own citizens and people of other countries, such as, “Idiots,Powerful, Overrated, and Self-Absorbed.” America is an idea that people can acquire wealth not by taking it, but by earning it.…

The Battle of the Alamo The battle of the Alamo occurred during a period when the Republic of Texas faced a bleak and uncertain future known as the Texas Revolution. American colonists were allowed to settle in Texas at the time under the New Mexican emperor Agustin de Iturbide. On 23, 1836, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began the 13 day siege of the Alamo. A moment in history that turned a ruined Spanish mission in downtown San Antonio, into a shrine. There were several events leading…

Story Symbols and Themes Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president, a very influential person through the Great Depression and World War II famously said: “The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely share prosperity - or it will move apart.” The Collection stories that we read are the Quilts of a Country by Anna Quindlen, Once Upon a Time by Nadine Gordimer, and the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln.…

Slavery is widely portrayed as the forefront cause of the debate on states’ rights, the lengthy division among northern and southern states, several deadly skirmishes before the Civil War and the entirety of the Civil War. When evaluating the timeframe between the initiation and conclusion of slavery in the United States, it is extremely important to acknowledge the disparities between the northern and southern states. Northern states were more concerned with abolishing slavery because of the…

Due to victories in the west during the war by Ulysses S. Grant, President Lincoln has given Grant control of the Union army. Many southern leaders believe that giving him total control over the union army by making him commander will be a grave mistake that Lincoln will regret in the future. Grant earned his place at the top of the army by doing whatever Lincoln said, and by the reckless captures of forts Henry and Donelson. Also by capturing the capital of Tennessee, and wouldn’t stop in…

I am a Mexican American my family is from Mexico, however i was born in the United States. This is why I am Mexican American but I consider myself more as a Latina. I love both countries equally but I identify myself more Mexican than American. Well i look more Mexican than American. People in society veiw me more as a Mexican girl that was just born in the United States.…

Colonial resistance to the "proclamation line" had been one of unifying factors that had committed many English colonists to revolution and helped spread an emerging nationalism. The exciting textbook American Nation, states that, "American independence and control of a wide and rich domain were the most obvious results of the Revolution." The revolution provided access to vast western lands and for many years western expansion would serve as an element that bound the various sections together…

"Shed American blood on American soil!" This war was started of a boundary difference between the United States and Mexico. Texas claimed its southern boundary to include the Rio Grande. However, Mexico stated it was the Nueces River. President Polk ultimately had to send in troops to the Rio Grande as Mexico was attempting to reclaim land in Texas as their own. President Polk started the war after he received word that Mexico had fired shots, he stated that they "shed…

when the US created the Panama Canal. In order to achieve this, the US assisted an independence movement which allowed the Panamanians to separate themselves from Colombia. However, the people who worked on this canal were told to have pride for what they were doing for the United States, by Theodore Roosevelt. Economic self interest was also seen when the US intervened in the Mexican Revolution. At first, Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz was kind toward American companies, but eventually he…